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Predicting Extraversion from Non-verbal Features During a Face-to-Face Human-Robot Interaction

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2015)

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In this paper we present a system for automatic prediction of extraversion during the first thin slices of human-robot interaction (HRI). This work is based on the hypothesis that personality traits and attitude towards robot appear in the behavioural response of humans during HRI. We propose a set of four non-verbal movement features that characterize human behavior during the interaction. We focus our study on predicting Extraversion using these features extracted from a dataset consisting of 39 healthy adults interacting with the humanoid iCub. Our analysis shows that it is possible to predict to a good level (64 %) the Extraversion of a human from a thin slice of interaction relying only on non-verbal movement features. Our results are comparable to the state-of-the-art obtained in HHI [23].

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Rahbar, F., Anzalone, S.M., Varni, G., Zibetti, E., Ivaldi, S., Chetouani, M. (2015). Predicting Extraversion from Non-verbal Features During a Face-to-Face Human-Robot Interaction. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_54

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