Title
Differences in head orientation behavior for speakers and listeners: An experiment in a virtual environment
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to investigate whether human observers use knowledge of the differences in focus of attention in multiparty interaction to identify the speaker amongst the meeting participants. A virtual environment was used to have good stimulus control. Head orientations were displayed as the only cue for focus attention. The orientations were derived from a corpus of tracked head movements. We present some properties of the relation between head orientations and speaker--listener status, as found in the corpus. With respect to the experiment, it appears that people use knowledge of the patterns in focus of attention to distinguish the speaker from the listeners. However, the human speaker identification results were rather low. Head orientations (or focus of attention) alone do not provide a sufficient cue for reliable identification of the speaker in a multiparty setting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1658349.1658351
TAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
sufficient cue,human speaker identification result,tracked head movement,reliable identification,human observer,head orientation,virtual environment,gaze behavior,multiparty conversation,perception of gaze,multiparty interaction,good stimulus control,head orientation behavior,focus attention,virtual environments,focus of attention,multiparty setting
Computer vision,Speaker identification,Virtual machine,Head movements,Computer science,Stimulus control,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
1
1544-3558
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.62
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rutger Rienks116813.14
Ronald Poppe2108349.93
Dirk Heylen386789.11