Social interactions are a vital aspect of everyone’s daily living. Individuals with visual impairments are at a loss when it comes to social interactions as majority (nearly 65%) of these interactions happen through visual non-verbal cues. Recently, efforts have been made towards the development of an assistive technology, called the Social Interaction Assistant (SIA)[1], which enables access t...

Abstract Board games are fertile grounds for the display of social signals, and they provide insights into psychological indicators in multi-person interactions. In this work, we introduce a new dataset collected from four-player board game sessions, recorded via multiple cameras, containing over 46 hours visual material. The MUMBAI is extensively annotated with emotional moments all sessions. ...

Although First Person Vision systems can sense the environment from the user’s perspective, they are generally unable to predict his intentions and goals. Since human activities can be decomposed in terms of atomic actions and interactions with objects, intelligent wearable systems would benefit from the ability to anticipate userobject interactions. Even if this task is not trivial, the First ...

A report on the development of a software architecture to facilitate interactions between a person and a humanoid robot is given. The architecture employs independent, asynchronous software agents that run in parallel on a set of PCs in a local area network. It comprises four major components: a Self Agent which controls the robot’s general interactions with the world and monitors its own statu...

Pictures of objects have been shown to automatically activate affordances, that is, actions that could be performed with the object. Similarly, pictures of faces are likely to activate social affordances, that is, interactions that would be possible with the person whose face is being presented. Most interestingly, if it is the face of a real person that is shown, one particular type of social ...

Abstract Two-person games are used in many multi-agent mathematical models to describe pair interactions. The type (pure or mixed) and the number of Nash equilibria affect fundamentally macroscopic behavior these systems. In this paper, general features investigated systematically within framework matrix decomposition for n strategies. This approach distinguishes four types elementary interacti...