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This paper explores how large language models can leverage multi-level contextual information to predict group coordination patterns in collaborative mixed reality environments. We demonstrate that encoding individual behavioral profiles,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Diana Romero , Xin Gao , Daniel Khalkhali , Salma Elmalaki

Full-duplex spoken dialogue models (SDMs) can listen and speak simultaneously, enabling interaction dynamics closer to human conversation than turn-based systems. Inspired by neural coupling in human communication, we study how such models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Pablo Riera , Pablo Brusco , Cristina Kuo , Marcelo Sancinetti , S. R. K. Branavan

Human conversation involves continuous exchanges of speech and nonverbal cues such as head nods, gaze shifts, and facial expressions that convey attention and emotion. Modeling these bidirectional dynamics in 3D is essential for building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junjie Chen , Fei Wang , Zhihao Huang , Qing Zhou , Kun Li , Dan Guo , Linfeng Zhang , Xun Yang

Emotions, as a fundamental ingredient of any social interaction, lead to behaviors that represent the effectiveness of the interaction through facial expressions and gestures in humans. Hence an agent must possess the social and cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Muhammad Arslan Raza , Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Adel Khelifi , Atif Alvi

Communicative gestures and speech acoustic are tightly linked. Our objective is to predict the timing of gestures according to the acoustic. That is, we want to predict when a certain gesture occurs. We develop a model based on a recurrent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Fajrian Yunus , Chloé Clavel , Catherine Pelachaud

Predicting group behavior, how individuals coordinate, communicate, and interact during collaborative tasks, is essential for designing systems that can support team performance through real-time prediction and realistic simulation of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Diana Romero , Xin Gao , Daniel Khalkhali , Salma Elmalaki

Speech-driven 3D facial animation technology has been developed for years, but its practical application still lacks expectations. The main challenges lie in data limitations, lip alignment, and the naturalness of facial expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiangyu Liang , Wenlin Zhuang , Tianyong Wang , Guangxing Geng , Guangyue Geng , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

We address the problem of accurate capture of interactive behaviors between two people in daily scenarios. Most previous works either only consider one person or solely focus on conversational gestures of two people, assuming the body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Leo Ho , Yinghao Huang , Dafei Qin , Mingyi Shi , Wangpok Tse , Wei Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Taku Komura

Social interactions dominate our perceptions of the world and shape our daily behavior by attaching social meaning to acts as simple and spontaneous as gestures, facial expressions, voice, and speech. People mimic and otherwise respond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiang Zhang , Xiaotian Li , Taoyue Wang , Nan Bi , Xin Zhou , Cody Zhou , Zoie Wang , Andrew Yang , Yuming Su , Jeff Cohn , Qiang Ji , Lijun Yin

Understanding social interactions involving both verbal and non-verbal cues is essential for effectively interpreting social situations. However, most prior works on multimodal social cues focus predominantly on single-person behaviors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Sangmin Lee , Bolin Lai , Fiona Ryan , Bikram Boote , James M. Rehg

Surgical team performance arises from complex interactions between technical execution and non-technical skills, including communication and coordination dynamics. However, current surgical AI systems predominantly model visual workflow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Vincenzo Marco De Luca , Antonio Longa , Giovanna Varni , Andrea Passerini

In this paper we introduce a new synchronisation task, Gesture-Sync: determining if a person's gestures are correlated with their speech or not. In comparison to Lip-Sync, Gesture-Sync is far more challenging as there is a far looser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sindhu B Hegde , Andrew Zisserman

Temporality, a crucial characteristic in the formation of social relationships, was used to quantify the long-term time effects of networks for link prediction models, ignoring the heterogeneity of time effects on different time scales. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yueran Duan , Mateusz Nurek , Qing Guan , Radosław Michalski , Petter Holme

In this paper, we aim to address the problem of human interaction recognition in videos by exploring the long-term inter-related dynamics among multiple persons. Recently, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) has become a popular choice to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Xiangbo Shu , Jinhui Tang , Guo-Jun Qi , Wei Liu , Jian Yang

Individuals often align their speaking patterns with their interlocutors, a phenomenon linked to engagement and rapport. While well documented in task-oriented dialogues, less is known about entrainment in naturalistic, non-task and virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Thanushi Withanage , Elizabeth Redcay , Carol Espy-Wilson

In this study, conversations between humans and avatars are linguistically, organizationally, and structurally analyzed, focusing on what is necessary for creating face-to-face multimodal interfaces for machines. We videorecorded…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-28 João Ranhel , Cacilda Vilela de Lima

When we go for a walk with friends, we can observe an interesting effect: From step lengths to arm movements - our movements unconsciously align; they synchronize. Prior research found that this synchronization is a crucial aspect of human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Wieslaw Bartkowski , Andrzej Nowak , Filip Ignacy Czajkowski , Albrecht Schmidt , Florian Müller

A social interaction is a social exchange between two or more individuals,where individuals modify and adjust their behaviors in response to their interaction partners. Our social interactions are one of most fundamental aspects of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Behnaz Nojavanasghari , Yuchi Huang , Saad Khan

Integrating intelligent systems, such as robots, into dynamic group settings poses challenges due to the mutual influence of human behaviors and internal states. A robust representation of social interaction dynamics is essential for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-11 J. Taery Kim , Archit Naik , Isuru Jayarathne , Sehoon Ha , Jouh Yeong Chew

Over the past decade, wearable computing devices (``smart glasses'') have undergone remarkable advancements in sensor technology, design, and processing power, ushering in a new era of opportunity for high-density human behavior data.…