CECCALDI E.

In this paper, we present and assess a novel technique for unitizing inspired by a cognitive theory on event structure perception. Unitizing indicates the process of dividing an observation into smaller units. Unitizing is often performed automatically, e.g., by selecting fixed-length windows. Although fast, such approach might result in unit...

This paper aims to analyse the state-of-the-art of somaesthetics, describing the scientific and philosophic basis of the discipline, in order to devise how to implement a soma-based design. The goal is to apply the somaesthetics approach to the design of multisensory interactive systems for the purpose of creating novel technology designs for...

Eating is a fundamental part of human life and is, more than anything, a social activity. A new field, known as Computational Commensality has been created to computationally address various social aspects of food and eating. This paper illustrates a study on remote dining we conducted online in May 2021. To better understand this phenomenon,...

The rising popularity of learning techniques in data analysis has recently led to an increased need of large-scale datasets. In this study, we propose a system consisting of a VR game and a software platform designed to collect the player's multimodal data, synchronized with the VR content, with the aim of creating a dataset for emotion...

Research focusing on social interaction often leverages data-sets, allowing annotation, analysis, and modeling of social behavior. When it comes to commensality, researchers have started working on computational models of food and eating-related activities recognition. The growing research area known as Digital Commensality, has focused on...

Multimodal interfaces pose the challenge of dealing with the multi-ple interactive time-scales characterizing human behavior. To dothis, innovative models and time-adaptive technologies are needed,operating at multiple time-scales and adopting a multi-layered ap-proach. The first International Workshop on Multi-Scale MovementTechnologies,...

This paper presents GAME-ON (Group Analysis of Multimodal Expression of cohesiON), a multimodal dataset specifically designed for studying group cohesion and for explicitly controlling its variation over time. Cohesion is here addressed according to the Severt and Estrada's theoretical multidimensional integrative framework. More specifically,...

This poster presents an art-inspired iterative design approach applied to the definition of two experimental scenarios for movement data collection. Scenarios are inspired by warm-up exercises dancers perform to broaden group consciousness. Research focuses on the influence an expert dancer exerts on novice dancers by propagating her own...