Child Engagement Estimation in Heterogeneous Child-Robot Interactions Using Spatiotemporal Visual Cues
Dafni Anagnostopoulou,Niki Efthymiou,Christina Papailiou,Petros Maragos,Dafni Anagnostopoulou,Niki Efthymiou,Christina Papailiou,Petros Maragos
Robots are increasingly introduced in various Child-Robot Interactions with educational, entertainment or even therapeutic goals. In order to achieve qualitative inter-actions, robots need to adjust their behavior according to children's response. A robot's ability to successfully estimate partner's engagement is of great importance towards this direction. In this research we propose a method to e...