You are fired! Nonverbal role analysis in competitive meetings

  • Authors:
  • Bogdan Raducanu;Jordi Vitria;Daniel Gatica-Perez

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Vision Center, Edifici O - Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra - Barcelona, Spain;Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Analysis, University of Barcelona, 08003 Spain;Idiap Research Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of social interaction analysis in competitive meetings, using nonverbal cues. For our study, we made use of “The Apprentice” reality TV show, which features a competition for a real, highly paid corporate job. Our analysis is centered around two tasks regarding a person's role in a meeting: predicting the person with the highest status and predicting the fired candidates. The current study was carried out using nonverbal audio cues. Results obtained from the analysis of a full season of the show, representing around 90 minutes of audio data, are very promising (up to 85.7% of accuracy in the first case and up to 92.8% in the second case). Our approach is based only on the nonverbal interaction dynamics during the meeting without relying on the spoken words.