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Modeling the Personality of Participants During Group Interactions

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User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009)

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Abstract

In this paper we target the automatic prediction of two personality traits, Extraversion and Locus of Control, in a meeting scenario using visual and acoustic features. We designed our task as a regression one where the goal is to predict the personality traits’ scores obtained by the meeting participants. Support Vector Regression is applied to thin slices of behavior, in the form of 1-minute sequences.

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    Bruno Lepri, Nadia Mana, Alessandro Cappelletti, Fabio Pianesi & Massimo Zancanaro

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Lepri, B., Mana, N., Cappelletti, A., Pianesi, F., Zancanaro, M. (2009). Modeling the Personality of Participants During Group Interactions. In: Houben, GJ., McCalla, G., Pianesi, F., Zancanaro, M. (eds) User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. UMAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5535. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02247-0_13

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