Analysis of group interaction and team dynamics is an important topic in a wide variety of fields, owing to the amount of time that individuals typically spend in small groups for both professional and personal purposes, and given how crucial group ...

Group meetings are often inefficient, unorganized and poorly documented. Factors including "group-think," fear of speaking, unfocused discussion, and bias can affect the performance of a group meeting. In order to actively or passively facilitate group ...

What are facial expressions for? In social-functional accounts, they are efficient adaptations that are used flexibly to address the problems inherent to successful social living. Facial expressions both broadcast emotions and regulate the emotions of ...

Automated measurement of affective behavior in psychopathology has been limited primarily to screening and diagnosis. While useful, clinicians more often are concerned with whether patients are improving in response to treatment. Are symptoms abating, ...

Group meetings can suffer from serious problems that undermine performance, including bias, "groupthink", fear of speaking, and unfocused discussion. To better understand these issues, propose interventions, and thus improve team performance, we need to ...

Constructing computational models of interactions during Forensic Interviews (FI) with children presents a unique challenge in being able to maximize complete and accurate information disclosure, while minimizing emotional trauma experienced by the ...

Immersive virtual environments (IVEs) present rich possibilities for the experimental study of non-verbal communication. Here, the 'digital chameleon' effect, -which suggests that a virtual speaker (agent) is more persuasive if they mimic their ...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a widely disseminated and effective therapeutic approach for behavioral disorder treatment. Over the past decade, MI research has identified client language as a central mediator between therapist skills and subsequent ...

Correctly interpreting an interlocutor's emotional expression is paramount to a successful interaction. But what happens when one of the interlocutors is a machine? The facilitation of human-machine communication and cooperation is of growing importance ...

The rising prevalence of mental illnesses is increasing the demand for new digital tools to support mental wellbeing. Numerous collaborations spanning the fields of psychology, machine learning and health are building such tools. Machine-learning models ...