In the last decades, given the necessity of assisting fragile citizens, of which elderly
represent a significant portion, a considerable research effort has been devoted to the use of …

Automated co-located human–human interaction analysis has been addressed by the use of
nonverbal communication as measurable evidence of social and psychological phenomena …

Interpersonal relation defines the association, eg, warm, friendliness, and dominance,
between two or more people. We investigate if such fine-grained and high-level relation …

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes
processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by …

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Capturing the'mutual gaze'of people is essential for understanding and interpreting the
social interactions between them. To this end, this paper addresses the problem of detecting …

In recent years the thriving development of research related to egocentric videos has
provided a unique perspective for the study of conversational interactions where both visual …

We propose a data-driven approach to detect conversational groups by identifying spatial
arrangements typical of these focused social encounters. Our approach uses a novel Deep …

Social robots need to understand human activities, dynamics, and the intentions behind their
behaviors. Most of the time, this implies the modeling of the whole scene. The recognition of …

Robots that navigate to approach free-standing conversational groups should do so in a
safe and socially acceptable manner. This is challenging since it not only requires the robot …