FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS AND URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE

Analysing Face to Face Computer-mediated Interactions

Detailed analysis of face to face computer mediated interactions implies a study of a corpus composed of the interaction traces produced by the collaborative tool and video and audio recordings. Because of their separate nature, it is frequently difficult to perform this joint analysis. In order to facilitate such analyses we propose a model for describing corpora composed of sources from diffe...

Buzz: Face-To-Face Contact and the Urban Economy

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can facilitate socialization and learning; and it provides psychological motivation. We discuss each of t...

Modeling Individuals and Groups in Face-to-Face Interactions

In our paper, we showed how we can use some simple social signals, the speaking activity, to reconstruct disparate and diverse aspects of social and individual life ranging from the functional roles played by the participants in a meeting to static characteristics of individuals (personality traits). To our knowledge, our paper is also the first one that tries to reconstruct some relevant indiv...

Time-varying networks approach to face-to-face empirical interactions

F2FCrowds: Planning Agent Movements to Enable Face-to-Face Interactions

We present an approach for multi-agent navigation that facilitates face-to-face interaction in virtual crowds. We describe a model of approach behavior for virtual agents that includes a novel interaction velocity prediction (IVP) algorithm. This algorithm is combined with human body motion synthesis constraints and facial actions to improve the behavioral realism of virtual agents. We combine ...