Cited by 250Emotion and Mood RecognitionSocial Robot Interaction and HRIHealth, Education, and Physical Culture

Automatic analysis of affective postures and body motion to detect engagement with a game companion,

Sanghvi, Jyotirmay, Castellano, Ginevra, Leite, Iolanda, Pereira, André, McOwan, Peter W., Paiva, Ana·2011·Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction

Abstract

The design of an affect recognition system for socially perceptive robots relies on representative data: human-robot interaction in naturalistic settings requires an affect recognition system to be trained and validated with contextualised affective expressions, that is, expressions that emerge in the same interaction scenario of the target application. In this paper we propose an initial computational model to automatically analyse human postures and body motion to detect engagement of children playing chess with an iCat robot that acts as a game companion. Our approach is based on vision-based automatic extraction of expressive postural features from videos capturing the behaviour of the children from a lateral view. An initial evaluation, conducted by training several recognition models with contextualised affective postural expressions, suggests that patterns of postural behaviour can be used to accurately predict the engagement of the children with the robot, thus making our approach suitable for integration into an affect recognition system for a game companion in a real world scenario.

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  • The user's body pose can be used to estimate their intent to engage with an embodied agent.

    “The user's body pose can be used to estimate their intent to engage with an embodied agent (Bohus and Horvitz, 2009; Sanghvi et al., 2011; Schwarz et al., 2014).”

    From Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents—A Review (2022) · cites this paper as Sanghvi et al., 2011

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Authors
Sanghvi, J., Castellano, G., Leite, I., Pereira, A., McOwan, P. W., & Paiva, A.
Affiliations
  • Queen Mary University of London (GB)
  • Instituto Superior Técnico (PT)
Venue
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
Publisher
ACM
Published
2011-03-06
Pages
305-312
OpenAlex
W2105410877
Cited by
250
References
34
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26.44
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
  • FP7 Information and Communication Technologies
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Health, Education, and Physical Culture
Keywords
affect recognition, human-robot interaction, body motion analysis, chess

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