The present study investigated (1) how well humans can recognize facial expressions represented by a small set of landmarks, a commonly used technique in facial recognition in machine learning and (2) differences in conscious observational behavio...
2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2021 - Proceedings 380-385 2021年 [査読有り]
A back-channel is a short utterance made by non-primary speakers. In the Japanese language back-channel is called 'Aizuchi, ' Aizuchi has long been considered as a positive reaction to the primary speaker showing agreement or appraisal and or givi...
2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2021 - Proceedings 359-365 2021年 [査読有り]
Previous studies indicated that how people look at others' faces depends on observers' characteristics. A vast majority of these studies used aggregated data, treating gaze data in a static manner and often neglected dynamics of observational beha...
The present paper introduces some key theories and phenomena about “ concept ” known among cognitive scientists to researchers in Artificial Intelligence. First, how natural categories are internally represented in our mind is discussed. It may so...
Previous studies have discussed how speakers select a frame (e.g., "half full," or "half empty"), and have proposed a hypothesis such as reference point hypothesis (e.g., Sher & McKenzie, 2006, 2008). In this paper, we propose a new hypothesis, fr...