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Laurent Son Nguyen
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Predictive Validity of Thin-Slice Nonverbal Behavior from Social Interactions
Laurent Son Nguyen, Denise Frauendorfer
We present five studies investigating the predictive validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior (NVB). Predictive validity of thin slices refers to how well behavior slices excerpted from longer video predict other measured variables. Using six NVBs, we ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019Check Out This Place: Inferring Ambiance from Airbnb Photos
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen
Airbnb is changing the landscape of the hospitality industry. For guests, the process of selecting a place to stay is a type of zero-acquaintance situation, and to this day little is known about the inferences that guests make about Airbnb listings. Enviro ...
2018Modeling Dyadic and Group Impressions with Inter-Modal and Inter-Person Features
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Laurent Son Nguyen
This article proposes a novel feature-extraction framework for inferring impression personality traits, emergent leadership skills, communicative competence, and hiring decisions. The proposed framework extracts multimodal features, describing each partici ...
2018Hirability in the wild: Analysis of online conversational video resumes
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen
Online social media is changing the personnel recruitment process. Until now, resumes were among the most widely used tools for the screening of job applicants. The advent of inexpensive sensors combined with the success of online video platforms has enabl ...
2016Stressful First Impressions in Job Interviews
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Skanda Muralidhar
Stress can impact many aspects of our lives, such as the way we interact and work with others, or the first impressions that we make. In the past, stress has most commonly been assessed through selfreported questionnaires; however, advancements in wearable ...
Assoc Computing Machinery2016Training on the Job: Behavioral Analysis of Job Interviews in Hospitality
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Skanda Muralidhar, Denise Frauendorfer
First impressions play a critical role in the hospitality industry and have been shown to be closely linked to the behavior of the person being judged. In this work, we implemented a behavioral training framework for hospitality students with the goal of i ...
Assoc Computing Machinery2016Computational Analysis Of Behavior In Employment Interviews And Video Resumes
Used in nearly every organization, employment interviews are a ubiquitous process where job applicants are evaluated by an employer for an open position. Consisting of an interpersonal interaction between at least one interviewer and a job applicant, they ...
EPFL2015Reliability and Validity of Nonverbal Thin Slices in Social Interactions
Laurent Son Nguyen, Denise Frauendorfer
Four studies investigated the reliability and validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior from social interactions including (a) how well individual slices of a given behavior predict other slices in the same interaction; (b) how well a slice of a given ...
2015I would hire you in a minute: Thin slices of nonverbal behavior in job interviews
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen
In everyday life, judgments people make about others are based on brief excerpts of interactions, known as thin slices. Inferences stemming from such minimal information can be quite accurate, and nonverbal behavior plays an important role in the impressio ...
2015Hire Me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Denise Frauendorfer
Understanding the basis on which recruiters form hirability impressions for a job applicant is a key issue in organizational psychology and can be addressed as a social computing problem. We approach the problem from a face-to-face, nonverbal perspective w ...
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