Individual and joint body movement assessed by wearable sensing as a predictor of attraction in speed dates

Interpersonal attraction is known to motivate behavioral responses in the person experiencing this subjective phenomenon. Such responses may involve the imitation of behavior, as in mirroring or mimicry of postures or gestures, which have been found to be associated with the desire to be liked by an interlocutor. Speed dating provides a...

Estimating attraction by quantifying bodily coordination using wearable sensors

In this thesis, prediction of romantic, social and sexual attraction between two people using bodily coordination features is studied. Attraction is one type of interest that can occur between interacting people and understanding the modeling of it can help understand how to model other types of interests in human-human interactions because...

Estimating Romantic, Social, and Sexual Attraction by Quantifying Bodily Coordination using Wearable Sensors

In this paper we introduce a novel method of estimating romantic, social and sexual attraction between two people by quantifying their bodily coordination using wearable sensors in a speed-date setting. We developed simple synchrony and convergence features, inspired from the literature and specifically adapted to be extracted from...