Feature Extraction and Selection for Inferring User Engagement in an HCI Environment

We present our work towards estimating the engagement of a person to the displayed information of a computer monitor. Deciding whether a user is attentive or not, and frustrated or not, helps adapting the displayed information of a computer in special environments, such as e-learning. The aim of the current work is the development of a method that can work user-independently, without necessitating special lighting conditions and with only requirements in terms of hardware, a computer and a web-camera.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Stylianos Asteriadis, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos D. Kollias
• Keywords: Displayed Information, HCI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Special Environments, Special Lighting Conditions