A method for detecting characteristic patterns in social interactions with an application to handover interactions.

ABSTRACT: Social interactions are a defining behavioural trait of social animals. Discovering characteristic patterns in the display of such behaviour is one of the fundamental endeavours in behavioural biology and psychology, as this promises to facilitate the general understanding, classification, prediction and even automation of social interactions. We present a novel approach to study characteristic patterns, including both sequential and synchronous actions in social interactions. The key concept in our analysis is to represent social interactions as sequences of behavioural states and to focus on changes in behavioural states shown by individuals rather than on the duration for which they are displayed. We extend techniques from data mining and bioinformatics to detect frequent patterns in th

SUBMITTER: Bode NW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5319336 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature