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19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017)
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19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), November 13–17, 2017, Glasgow, UK

ICMI 2017 – Proceedings

Contents - Abstracts - Authors

Frontmatter

Title Page


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Message from the Chairs


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ICMI 2017 Organization


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Supporters and Sponsors


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Invited Talks

Gastrophysics: Using Technology to Enhance the Experience of Food and Drink (Keynote)
Charles Spence
(University of Oxford, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17key-keynote01-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3137024
Collaborative Robots: From Action and Interaction to Collaboration (Keynote)
Danica Kragic
(KTH, Sweden)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17key-keynote03-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3137026
Situated Conceptualization: A Framework for Multimodal Interaction (Keynote)
Lawrence Barsalou
(University of Glasgow, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17key-keynote02-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3137025
Steps towards Collaborative Multimodal Dialogue (Sustained Contribution Award)
Phil Cohen
(Voicebox Technologies, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17key-keynote04-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3154480

Main Track

Oral Session 1: Children and Interaction

Tablets, Tabletops, and Smartphones: Cross-Platform Comparisons of Children’s Touchscreen Interactions
Julia Woodward, Alex Shaw, Aishat Aloba, Ayushi Jain, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony
(University of Florida, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1130-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136762
Toward an Efficient Body Expression Recognition Based on the Synthesis of a Neutral Movement
Arthur Crenn, Alexandre Meyer, Rizwan Ahmed Khan, Hubert Konik, and Saida Bouakaz
(University of Lyon, France; University of Saint-Etienne, France)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1137-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136763
Interactive Narration with a Child: Impact of Prosody and Facial Expressions
Ovidiu Șerban, Mukesh Barange, Sahba Zojaji, Alexandre Pauchet, Adeline Richard, and Emilie Chanoni
(Normandy University, France; University of Rouen, France)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2224-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136797
Comparing Human and Machine Recognition of Children’s Touchscreen Stroke Gestures
Alex Shaw, Jaime Ruiz, and Lisa Anthony
(University of Florida, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2586-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136810

Oral Session 2: Understanding Human Behaviour

Virtual Debate Coach Design: Assessing Multimodal Argumentation Performance
Volha Petukhova, Tobias Mayer, Andrei Malchanau, and Harry Bunt
(Saarland University, Germany; Tilburg University, Netherlands)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1485-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136775
Predicting the Distribution of Emotion Perception: Capturing Inter-rater Variability
Biqiao Zhang, Georg Essl, and Emily Mower Provost
(University of Michigan, USA; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2057-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136792
Automatically Predicting Human Knowledgeability through Non-verbal Cues
Abdelwahab Bourai, Tadas Baltrušaitis, and Louis-Philippe Morency
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2304-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136799
Pooling Acoustic and Lexical Features for the Prediction of Valence
Zakaria Aldeneh, Soheil Khorram, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, and Emily Mower Provost
(University of Michigan, USA; IBM Research, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1096-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136760

Oral Session 3: Touch and Gesture

Hand-to-Hand: An Intermanual Illusion of Movement
Dario Pittera, Marianna Obrist, and Ali Israr
(Disney Research, USA; University of Sussex, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1559-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136777
An Investigation of Dynamic Crossmodal Instantiation in TUIs
Feng Feng and Tony Stockman
(Queen Mary University of London, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1803-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136782
“Stop over There”: Natural Gesture and Speech Interaction for Non-critical Spontaneous Intervention in Autonomous Driving
Robert Tscharn, Marc Erich Latoschik, Diana Löffler, and Jörn Hurtienne
(University of Würzburg, Germany)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1885-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136787
Pre-touch Proxemics: Moving the Design Space of Touch Targets from Still Graphics towards Proxemic Behaviors
Ilhan Aslan and Elisabeth André
(University of Augsburg, Germany)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2460-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136808
Freehand Grasping in Mixed Reality: Analysing Variation during Transition Phase of Interaction
Maadh Al-Kalbani, Maite Frutos-Pascual, and Ian Williams
(Birmingham City University, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1526-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136776
Rhythmic Micro-Gestures: Discreet Interaction On-the-Go
Euan Freeman, Gareth Griffiths, and Stephen A. Brewster
(University of Glasgow, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2797-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136815

Oral Session 4: Sound and Interaction

Evaluation of Psychoacoustic Sound Parameters for Sonification
Jamie Ferguson and Stephen A. Brewster
(University of Glasgow, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1821-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136783
Utilising Natural Cross-Modal Mappings for Visual Control of Feature-Based Sound Synthesis
Augoustinos Tsiros and Grégory Leplâtre
(Edinburgh Napier University, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2267-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136798

Oral Session 5: Methodology

Automatic Classification of Auto-correction Errors in Predictive Text Entry Based on EEG and Context Information
Felix Putze, Maik Schünemann, Tanja Schultz, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
(University of Bremen, Germany; Simon Fraser University, Canada)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1840-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136784
Cumulative Attributes for Pain Intensity Estimation
Joy O. Egede and Michel Valstar
(University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China; University of Nottingham, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1970-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136789
Towards the Use of Social Interaction Conventions as Prior for Gaze Model Adaptation
Rémy Siegfried, Yu Yu, and Jean-Marc Odobez
(Idiap, Switzerland; EPFL, Switzerland)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2059-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136793
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Word-Level Fusion and Reinforcement Learning
Minghai Chen, Sen Wang, Paul Pu Liang, Tadas Baltrušaitis, Amir Zadeh, and Louis-Philippe Morency
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2317-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136801
IntelliPrompter: Speech-Based Dynamic Note Display Interface for Oral Presentations
Reza Asadi, Ha Trinh, Harriet J. Fell, and Timothy W. Bickmore
(Northeastern University, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2926-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136818

Oral Session 6: Artificial Agents and Wearable Sensors

Head and Shoulders: Automatic Error Detection in Human-Robot Interaction
Pauline Trung, Manuel Giuliani, Michael Miksch, Gerald Stollnberger, Susanne Stadler, Nicole Mirnig, and Manfred Tscheligi
(University of Salzburg, Austria; University of the West of England, UK; Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1861-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136785
The Reliability of Non-verbal Cues for Situated Reference Resolution and Their Interplay with Language: Implications for Human Robot Interaction
Stephanie Gross, Brigitte Krenn, and Matthias Scheutz
(Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria; Tufts University, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2162-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136795
Do You Speak to a Human or a Virtual Agent? Automatic Analysis of User’s Social Cues during Mediated Communication
Magalie Ochs, Nathan Libermann, Axel Boidin, and Thierry Chaminade
(Aix-Marseille University, France; University of Toulon, France; Picxel, France)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2455-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136807
Estimating Verbal Expressions of Task and Social Cohesion in Meetings by Quantifying Paralinguistic Mimicry
Marjolein C. Nanninga, Yanxia Zhang, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Zoltán Szlávik, and Hayley Hung
(Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-2618-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136811
Data Augmentation of Wearable Sensor Data for Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring using Convolutional Neural Networks
Terry T. Um, Franz M. J. Pfister, Daniel Pichler, Satoshi Endo, Muriel Lang, Sandra Hirche, Urban Fietzek, and Dana Kulić
(University of Waterloo, Canada; LMU Munich, Germany; TU Munich, Germany; Schön Klinik München Schwabing, Germany)


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Poster Session 1

Automatic Assessment of Communication Skill in Non-conventional Interview Settings: A Comparative Study
Pooja Rao S. B, Sowmya Rasipuram, Rahul Das, and Dinesh Babu Jayagopi
(IIIT Bangalore, India)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1002-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136756
Low-Intrusive Recognition of Expressive Movement Qualities
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Maurizio Mancini, Stefano Piana, Paolo Alborno, Gualtiero Volpe, and Antonio Camurri
(University of Genoa, Italy)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1022-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136757
Digitising a Medical Clerking System with Multimodal Interaction Support
Harrison South, Martin Taylor, Huseyin Dogan, and Nan Jiang
(Bournemouth University, UK; Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1028-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136758
GazeTap: Towards Hands-Free Interaction in the Operating Room
Benjamin Hatscher, Maria Luz, Lennart E. Nacke, Norbert Elkmann, Veit Müller, and Christian Hansen
(University of Magdeburg, Germany; University of Waterloo, Canada; Fraunhofer IFF, Germany)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1061-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136759
Boxer: A Multimodal Collision Technique for Virtual Objects
Byungjoo Lee, Qiao Deng, Eve Hoggan, and Antti Oulasvirta
(Aalto University, Finland; KAIST, South Korea; Aarhus University, Denmark)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1107-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136761
Trust Triggers for Multimodal Command and Control Interfaces
Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu, and Pedro Patron
(Heriot-Watt University, UK; SeeByte, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1150-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136764
TouchScope: A Hybrid Multitouch Oscilloscope Interface
Matthew Heinz, Sven Bertel, and Florian Echtler
(Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1222-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136765
A Multimodal System to Characterise Melancholia: Cascaded Bag of Words Approach
Shalini Bhatia, Munawar Hayat, and Roland Goecke
(University of Canberra, Australia)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1234-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136766
Crowdsourcing Ratings of Caller Engagement in Thin-Slice Videos of Human-Machine Dialog: Benefits and Pitfalls
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Chee Wee Leong, David Suendermann-Oeft, and Keelan Evanini
(ETS at San Francisco, USA; ETS at Princeton, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1296-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136767
Modelling Fusion of Modalities in Multimodal Interactive Systems with MMMM
Bruno Dumas, Jonathan Pirau, and Denis Lalanne
(University of Namur, Belgium; University of Fribourg, Switzerland)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1376-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136768
Temporal Alignment using the Incremental Unit Framework
Casey Kennington, Ting Han, and David Schlangen
(Boise State University, USA; Bielefeld University, Germany)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1389-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136769
Multimodal Gender Detection
Mohamed Abouelenien, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, and Mihai Burzo
(University of Michigan, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1399-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136770
How May I Help You? Behavior and Impressions in Hospitality Service Encounters
Skanda Muralidhar, Marianne Schmid Mast, and Daniel Gatica-Perez
(Idiap, Switzerland; EPFL, Switzerland; University of Lausanne, Switzerland)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1415-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136771
Tracking Liking State in Brain Activity while Watching Multiple Movies
Naoto Terasawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Sakriani Sakti, and Satoshi Nakamura
(NAIST, Japan)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1417-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136772
Does Serial Memory of Locations Benefit from Spatially Congruent Audiovisual Stimuli? Investigating the Effect of Adding Spatial Sound to Visuospatial Sequences
Benjamin Stahl and Georgios Marentakis
(Graz University of Technology, Austria)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1458-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136773
ZSGL: Zero Shot Gestural Learning
Naveen Madapana and Juan Wachs
(Purdue University, USA)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1474-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136774
Markov Reward Models for Analyzing Group Interaction
Gabriel Murray
(University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1590-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136778
Analyzing First Impressions of Warmth and Competence from Observable Nonverbal Cues in Expert-Novice Interactions
Beatrice Biancardi, Angelo Cafaro, and Catherine Pelachaud
(CNRS, France; UPMC, France)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1641-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136779
The NoXi Database: Multimodal Recordings of Mediated Novice-Expert Interactions
Angelo Cafaro, Johannes Wagner, Tobias Baur, Soumia Dermouche, Mercedes Torres Torres, Catherine Pelachaud, Elisabeth André, and Michel Valstar
(CNRS, France; UPMC, France; University of Augsburg, Germany; University of Nottingham, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1643-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136780
Head-Mounted Displays as Opera Glasses: Using Mixed-Reality to Deliver an Egalitarian User Experience during Live Events
Carl Bishop, Augusto Esteves, and Iain McGregor
(Edinburgh Napier University, UK)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1773-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136781

Poster Session 2

Analyzing Gaze Behavior during Turn-Taking for Estimating Empathy Skill Level
Ryo Ishii, Shiro Kumano, and Kazuhiro Otsuka
(NTT, Japan)


Publisher's Version Article: icmi17main-sl-1882-p doi:10.1145/3136755.3136786
Text Based User Comments as a Signal for Automatic Language Identification of Online Videos
A. Seza Doğruöz, Natalia Ponomareva, Sertan Girgin, Reshu Jain, and Christoph Oehler
(Xoogler, Turkey; Google, USA; Google, France; Google, Switzerland)