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Title From analysis to modeling of engagement as sequences of multimodal behaviors
Authors Soumia Dermouche and Catherine Pelachaud
Abstract In this paper, we present an approach to endow an Embodied Conversational Agent with engagement capabilities. We relied on a corpus of expert-novice interactions. Two types of manual annotation were conducted: non-verbal signals such as gestures, head movements and smiles; engagement level of both expert and novice during the interaction. Then, we used a temporal sequence mining algorithm to extract non-verbal sequences eliciting variation of engagement perception. Our aim is to apply these findings in human-agent interaction to analyze user's engagement level and to control agent's behavior. The novelty of this study is to consider explicitly engagement as sequence of multimodal behaviors.
Topics Knowledge Discovery/Representation, Statistical And Machine Learning Methods, Corpus (Creation, Annotation, Etc.)
Full paper From analysis to modeling of engagement as sequences of multimodal behaviors
Bibtex @InProceedings{DERMOUCHE18.456,
  author = {Soumia Dermouche and Catherine Pelachaud},
  title = "{From analysis to modeling of engagement as sequences of multimodal behaviors}",
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {May 7-12, 2018},
  address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9},
  language = {english}
  }
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