Automated Analysis of Mutual Gaze in Human Conversational Pairs [chapter]

Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn
2013 Eye Gaze in Intelligent User Interfaces  
Mutual gaze arises from the interaction of the gaze behavior of two individuals. It is an important part of all face-to-face social interactions, including verbal exchanges. In order for humanoid robots to interact more naturally with people, they need internal models that allow them to produce realistic social gaze behavior. The approach taken in this work is to collect data from human conversational pairs with the goal of learning a controller for robot gaze directly from human data. As a
more » ... t step towards this goal, a Markov model representation of human gaze data is produced. We also discuss how an algebraic analysis of the state transition structure of such models may reveal interesting properties of human gaze interaction.
doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-4784-8_4 fatcat:fqvtq2mzdjasre4popkdetyaz4