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Oya Aran

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A Nonverbal Behavior Approach to Identify Emergent Leaders in Small Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

dentifying emergent leaders in organizations is a key issue in organizational behavioral research, and a new problem in social computing. This paper presents an analysis on how an emergent leader is perceived in newly formed, small groups, and then tackles ...

2012

You Are Known by How You Vlog: Personality Impressions and Nonverbal Behavior in YouTube

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

An increasing interest in understanding human perception in social media has led to the study of the processes of personality self-presentation and impression formation based on user profiles and text blogs. However, despite the popularity of online video, ...

2011

Using Modality Replacement to Facilitate Communication between Visually and Hearing-Impaired People

Oya Aran

Using sign language, speech, and haptics as communication modalities, a virtual treasure-hunting game serves as an entertainment and educational tool for visually and hearing impaired users. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in human-c ...

2011

Incorporating annotators' knowledge into a machine-learning framework for detecting psychological traits using multimodal data is an open issue in human communication and social computing. We present a model that is designed to exploit the subjective judge ...

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In this paper we discuss our experience designing and collecting a data corpus called ELEA (Emergent LEader Analysis), and describe the use of a light portable scenario to record small group meetings. The corpus was gathered with the aim of analyzing emerg ...

2011

Fisher kernels combine the powers of discriminative and generative classifiers by mapping the variable-length sequences to a new fixed length feature space, called the Fisher score space. The mapping is based on a single generative model and the classifier ...

2010

Fusing Audio-Visual Nonverbal Cues to Detect Dominant People in Conversations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran

This paper addresses the multimodal nature of social dominance and presents multimodal fusion techniques to combine audio and visual nonverbal cues for dominance estimation in small group conversations. We combine the two modalities both at the feature ext ...

2010

Fusing Audio-Visual Nonverbal Cues to Detect Dominant People in Conversations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran

Idiap2010

Identifying Emergent Leadership in Small Groups using Nonverbal Communicative Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

This paper addresses firstly an analysis on how an emergent leader is perceived in newly formed small-groups, and secondly, explore correlations between perception of leadership and automatically extracted nonverbal communicative cues. We hypothesize that ...