Interactive playgrounds are technology-enhanced installations that aim to provide rich game
experiences for children by combining the benefits of traditional playgrounds with those of …

Social signal processing (SSP) is a new cross-disciplinary research domain that aims at
understanding and modeling social interactions (research in human sciences) and providing …

Conflict is one of the most important phenomena of social life, but it is still largely neglected
by the computing community. This work proposes an approach that detects common …

This article presents experiments on automatic detection of laughter and fillers, two of the
most important nonverbal behavioral cues observed in spoken conversations. The proposed …

Social signal processing (SSP) is the domain aimed at the modeling, analysis, and synthesis
of social behavior, particularly the nonverbal aspects. So far, the field has focused on face-to …

Laughter and fillers are common phenomenon in speech, and play an important role in
communication. In this study, we present Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Convolutional …

Emotion plays a significant role in our daily lives. It can describe the inner feelings and state
of an individual and contribute to the communication process. Human–machine interaction …

Non-verbal speech cues such as laughter and fillers, which are collectively called social
signals, play an important role in human communication. Therefore, detection of them would …

This study aimed to detect social signals, such as laughter and screams, in real
environments. Social signals influence humanto-human communication. To effectively apply …

In the literature, politeness has been researched within many disciplines. Although Brown
and Levinson's theory of politeness (1978, 1987) is often cited, it is primarily a linguistic …