Multimodal Detection of Engagement in Groups of Children Using Rank Learning

• Published in: Human Behavior Understanding Vol. 9997; pp. 35 - 48
• Main Authors: Kim, Jaebok, Truong, Khiet P., Charisi, Vicky, Zaga, Cristina, Evers, Vanessa, Chetouani, Mohamed
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2016; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Children; Engagement; Image processing; Non-verbal behaviours; Pattern recognition; Social Signal Processing

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 mov...