A preliminary system for recognizing boredom

A 3D optical flow tracking system was used to track participants as they watched a series of boring videos. The video stream of the participants was rated for boredom events. Ratings and head position data were combined to predict boredom events. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.10 [Artificial Intelligence]: Vision and Scene Understanding General Terms Experimentation Keywords Human-Robot Interaction

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HRI
• Authors: Allison M. Jacobs, Benjamin R. Fransen, J. Malcolm McCurry, Frederick W. P. Heckel, Alan R. Wagner, J. Gregory Trafton
• Keywords: Boredom Events, HRI 2009, Human Robot Interaction, Keywords Human-robot Interaction, Optical Flow Tracking