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A Wearable Camera Detects Gaze Peculiarities during Social Interactions in Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Aude Billard, Patrick Jermann, Basilio Noris, Silvia Magrelli

We report on the study of gazes, conducted on children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), by using a novel head-mounted eye-tracking device called the WearCam. Due to the portable nature of the WearCam, we are able to monitor naturalistic intera ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Social deficits induced by peripubertal stress in rats are reversed by resveratrol

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Guillaume Poirier

Adolescence is increasingly recognized as a critical period for the development of the social system, through the maturation of social competences and of their underlying neural circuitries. The present study sought to test the utility of resveratrol, a di ...

2014

Comparing the Predictive Capability of Social and Interest Affinity for Recommendations

Karl Aberer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Alexandra Olteanu

The advent of online social networks created new prediction opportunities for recommender systems: instead of relying on past rating history through the use of collaborative filtering (CF), they can leverage the social relations among users as a predictor ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Human Interaction Discovery in Smartphone Proximity Networks

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Since humans are fundamentally social beings and interact frequently with others in their daily life, understanding social context is of primary importance in building context-aware applications. In this paper, using smartphone Bluetooth as a proximity sen ...

Springer London Ltd2013

The Influence of Urban Spatial Practices on Moral Schemes: Analyzing the Cognitive Construction of Spatial Globalization Through Experimental Moral Philosophy

Shin Alexandre Koseki

In French analytical geography, globalization is the emergence of the World as a spatial entity by which the planetary extension become one space. Taking a cognitive perspective, I suggest that globalization is by extension the process by which the individ ...

2013

Inferring social activities with mobile sensor networks

Daniel Gatica-Perez

While our daily activities usually involve interactions with others, the state-of-the-art methods on activity recognition do not exploit the relationship between social interactions and human activity. This paper addresses the problem of interpreting socia ...

2013

Bridging the Gap Between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly considers its three major aspects, namely, modeling, analysis, and synthesi ...

2012

Towards a Technology of Nonverbal Communication: Vocal Behavior in Social and Affective Phenomena

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Nonverbal communication is the main channel through which we experience inner life of others, including their emotions, feelings, moods, social attitudes, etc. This attracts the interest of the computing community because nonverbal communication is based o ...

Idiap2012

More Than Words: Inference of Socially Relevant Information from Nonverbal Vocal Cues in Speech

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper presents two examples of how nonverbal commu- nication can be automatically detected and interpreted in terms of social phenomena. In particular, the presented approaches use simple prosodic features to distinguish between journalists and non-jo ...

Springer2011

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

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