Let's move on: Topic Change in Robot-Facilitated Group Discussions

Data Files

The data is organized into two folders aggregated-features and sequential-features. Each file is named according to the data collection session id.

The aggregated-features folder contains data where features are aggregated separately for the window of 2 seconds before the end of each utterance and for the window starting from the end until the 2 seconds that followed. In the column names, the terms before and after indicate the respective time window.

The sequential-features folder contains the sequential features sampled using a sliding window.These features are sampled at a rate of 4 Hz over a 4-second window, spanning from 2 seconds before to 2 seconds after the end of each utterance.

Utterance info

name description
start timestamp of the beginning of the utterance
start_0 start time of utterance from the beginning session (seconds)
end timestamp of the end of the utterance
end_0 end time of utterance from the beginning session (seconds)
active id of the active participant (-1 corresponds to the robot)
annotation annotation
duration_pause pause duration after current utterance (seconds)
amount_speech total duration of speech on current topic (seconds)

Acoustic features

The acoustic features were extracted from the individual audio signals of the active participants. For each of the acoustic features, we calculated mean/max/min/std values during each 2-second window.

name participant description
acoustic_jitterLocal_sma3nz speaker jitter
acoustic_shimmerLocaldB_sma3nz speaker shimmer
acoustic_HNRdBACF_sma3nz speaker Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio
acoustic_energy speaker speech energy
acoustic_pitch speaker pitch
acoustic_duration speaker duration of the utterance

Hand Gestures and Body Features

The features were computed from the Kinect body joints. For a detailed definition of the Kinect coordinate system and body tracking joints, refer to the Microsoft Azure Kinect documentation.

name participant axes description
kinect_spine speaker/listeners x/y SPINE_CHEST joint position in relation to the PELVIS
kinect_spine_grad speaker/listeners x/y temporal difference of kinect_spine
kinect_left_hand speaker/listeners x/y/z HAND_LEFT joint position in relation to SPINE_CHEST
kinect_left_hand_grad speaker/listeners x/y/z temporal difference of kinect_left_hand
kinect_right_hand speaker/listeners x/y/z HAND_RIGHT joint position in relation to SPINE_CHEST
kinect_right_hand_grad speaker/listeners x/y/z temporal difference of kinect_right_hand

Head Rotation Features

name participant description
kinect_head_to_robot speaker/listeners scaled horizontal head rotation angle between the participants and the robot
kinect_head_to_robot_grad speaker/listeners temporal difference of kinect_head_to_robot

License

The data is accessible for non-commercial purposes under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license. License information on Creative Commons website.