Abstract

Observational methods are fundamental to the study of human behavior in the behavioral sciences. For example, in the context of research on intimate relationships, psychologists’ hypotheses are often empirically tested by video recording interactions of couples and manually coding relevant behaviors using standardized coding systems. This coding process can be time-consuming, and the resulting coded data may have a high degree of variability because of a number of factors (e.g., inter-evaluator differences). These challenges provide an opportunity to employ engineering methods to aid in automatically coding human behavioral data. In this work, we analyzed a large corpus of married couples’ problem-solving interactions. Each spouse was manually coded with multiple session-level behavioral observations (e.g., level of blame toward other spouse), and we used acoustic speech features to automatically …

Date

2013

Authors

Matthew P Black, Athanasios Katsamanis, Brian R Baucom, Chi-Chun Lee, Adam C Lammert, Andrew Christensen, Panayiotis G Georgiou, Shrikanth S Narayanan

Journal

Speech communication

Volume

55

Issue

1

Pages

1-21

Publisher

North-Holland