Abstract
We examine the utility of implicit user behavioral signals captured using low-cost, off-the-shelf devices for anonymous gender and emotion recognition. A user study designed to examine male and female sensitivity to facial emotions confirms that females recognize (especially negative) emotions quicker and more accurately than men, mirroring prior findings. Implicit viewer responses in the form of EEG brain signals and eye movements are then examined for existence of (a) emotion and gender-specific patterns from event-related potentials (ERPs) and fixation distributions and (b) emotion and gender discriminability. Experiments reveal that (i) Gender and emotion-specific differences are observable from ERPs, (ii) multiple similarities exist between explicit responses gathered from users and their implicit behavioral signals, and (iii) Significantly above-chance (≈70%) gender recognition is achievable on comparing emotion-specific EEG responses- gender differences are encoded best for anger and disgust. Also, fairly modest valence (positive vs negative emotion) recognition is achieved with EEG and eye-based features.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICMI 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction |
Editors | Edward Lank, Eve Hoggan, Sriram Subramanian, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Stephen A. Brewster |
Place of Publication | United States |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 379-387 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450355438 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450355438 |
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Publication status | Published - 3 Nov 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → 17 Nov 2017 https://icmi.acm.org/2017/ |
Publication series
Name | ICMI 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction |
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Volume | 2017-January |
Conference
Conference | 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | ICMI 2017 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Glasgow |
Period | 13/11/17 → 17/11/17 |
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