Similarity Forces and Recurrent Components in Human Face-to-Face Interaction Networks

Modeling human dynamics of face-to-face interaction networks

Face-to-face interaction networks describe social interactions in human gatherings, and are the substrate for processes such as epidemic spreading and gossip propagation. The bursty nature of human behavior characterizes many aspects of empirical data, such as the distribution of conversation lengths, of conversations per person, or of interconversation times. Despite several recent attempts, a...

Modeling face-to-face social interaction networks

Social Gaze Behavior for Face to Face Human-Robot Interaction

This short paper discusses the importance of human-like gaze behaviors for humanoid robots with physical eyes. It gives a brief overview of the functions gaze fullfills in human-human interactions from a social evolutionary perspective. In the second part we describe how human-like gaze has been implemented in robot in the research field of social robotics in the last years. The last part of th...

Temporal networks of face-to-face human interactions

The ever increasing adoption of mobile technologies and ubiquitous services allows to sense human behavior at unprecedented levels of details and scale. Wearable sensors are opening up a new window on human mobility and proximity at the finest resolution of face-to-face proximity. As a consequence, empirical data describing social and behavioral networks are acquiring a longitudinal dimension t...

Analyzing Gaze During Face-to-Face Interaction

We present here the analysis of multimodal data gathered during realistic face-to-face interaction of a target speaker with a number of interlocutors. Videos and gaze have been monitored with an experimental setup using coupled cameras and screens with integrated eye trackers. With the aim to understand the functions of gaze in social interaction and to develop a coherent gaze control model for...