Title
Acoustical analysis of engagement behavior in children.
Abstract
In this work we analyze the expressive manifestation of a child’s engagement behavior on his speech as well as in the speech of psychologist interacting with the child. Visual cues such as facial gestures and gaze are known to be informative of engagement, but here, we examine the less studied speech cues of the children’s non-verbal vocalizations. We study the spectral, prosodic and duration features obtained from the child and the psychologist’s vocal data. We observe that these measures carry discriminative power in assessing specific engagement levels of the children (49.2% accuracy in classifying 3 levels of engagement compared to 33% chance accuracy). We also present our results as a detection task for disengagement with precision, recall and f-measure of .70, .42, .53, respectively. The unweighted accuracy for binary classification between engagement and disengagement is 62.9%. Our results suggest that vocal cues bear useful information in capturing the state of engagement in speech, indicating that speech can play an effective role in engagement assessment.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
WOCCI
Sensory cue,Gaze,Binary classification,Communication,Gesture,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Disengagement theory,Discriminative model,Recall
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
5
0.52
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rahul Gupta19218.86
Chi-Chun Lee265449.41
Daniel Bone3467.12
Agata Rozga414912.11
Sungbok Lee5139484.13
Narayanan Shrikanth65558439.23