Title
Multimodal Detection Of Engagement In Groups Of Children Using Rank Learning
Abstract
In collaborative play, children exhibit different levels of engagement. Some children are engaged with other children while some play alone. In this study, we investigated multimodal detection of individual levels of engagement using a ranking method and non-verbal features: turn-taking and body movement. Firstly, we automatically extracted turn-taking and body movement features in naturalistic and challenging settings. Secondly, we used an ordinal annotation scheme and employed a ranking method considering the great heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of engagement that exist in interactions. We showed that levels of engagement can be characterised by relative levels between children. In particular, a ranking method, Ranking SVM, outperformed a conventional method, SVM classification. While either turn-taking or body movement features alone did not achieve promising results, combining the two features yielded significant error reduction, showing their complementary power.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-46843-3_3
HUMAN BEHAVIOR UNDERSTANDING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Children, Engagement, Social Signal Processing, Non-verbal behaviours
Conference
9997
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.36
References 
Authors
21
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaebok Kim110.36
Khiet P. Truong230232.64
Vicky Charisi3233.87
Cristina Zaga4234.49
Vanessa Evers583680.72
Mohamed Chetouani659059.47