Engagement is the process by which participants establish, maintain, and end their
perceived connection. Automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to …

Participants in video meetings have long struggled with asymmetrical attention levels,
especially when participants are distributed unevenly. While technological advances offer …

An integral part of seamless human-human communication is engagement, the process by
which two or more participants establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

In this paper, we consider engagement in the context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
Previous studies in HRI relate engagement to emotion and attention independently from the …

In this paper, we address the problematic of automatic detection of engagement in multi-
party Human-Robot Interaction scenarios. The aim is to investigate to what extent are we …

Communicating shapes our social word. For a robot to be considered social and being
consequently integrated in our social environment it is fundamental to understand some of …

Gaze is an important nonverbal feedback signal in multiparty face-to-face conversations. It is
well known that gaze behaviors differ depending on participation role: speaker, addressee …

The addressee estimation (understanding to whom somebody is talking) is a fundamental
task for human activity recognition in multi-party conversation scenarios. Specifically, in the …

Gaze control plays a crucial role in the context of conversational robots involving multiple
participants. Particularly, gaze aversion is not only important for improving human likeness …