UpStory: the Uppsala Storytelling dataset

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Main Authors: Fraile, Marc, Calvo-Barajas, Natalia, Apeiron, Anastasia Sophia, Varni, Giovanna, Lindblad, Joakim, Sladoje, Nataša, Castellano, Ginevra
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author Fraile, Marc
Calvo-Barajas, Natalia
Apeiron, Anastasia Sophia
Varni, Giovanna
Lindblad, Joakim
Sladoje, Nataša
Castellano, Ginevra
author_facet Fraile, Marc
Calvo-Barajas, Natalia
Apeiron, Anastasia Sophia
Varni, Giovanna
Lindblad, Joakim
Sladoje, Nataša
Castellano, Ginevra
contents Friendship and rapport play an important role in the formation of constructive social interactions, and have been widely studied in educational settings due to their impact on student outcomes. Given the growing interest in automating the analysis of such phenomena through Machine Learning (ML), access to annotated interaction datasets is highly valuable. However, no dataset on dyadic child-child interactions explicitly capturing rapport currently exists. Moreover, despite advances in the automatic analysis of human behaviour, no previous work has addressed the prediction of rapport in child-child dyadic interactions in educational settings. We present UpStory -- the Uppsala Storytelling dataset: a novel dataset of naturalistic dyadic interactions between primary school aged children, with an experimental manipulation of rapport. Pairs of children aged 8-10 participate in a task-oriented activity: designing a story together, while being allowed free movement within the play area. We promote balanced collection of different levels of rapport by using a within-subjects design: self-reported friendships are used to pair each child twice, either minimizing or maximizing pair separation in the friendship network. The dataset contains data for 35 pairs, totalling 3h 40m of audio and video recordings. It includes two video sources covering the play area, as well as separate voice recordings for each child. An anonymized version of the dataset is made publicly available, containing per-frame head pose, body pose, and face features; as well as per-pair information, including the level of rapport. Finally, we provide ML baselines for the prediction of rapport.
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spellingShingle UpStory: the Uppsala Storytelling dataset
Fraile, Marc
Calvo-Barajas, Natalia
Apeiron, Anastasia Sophia
Varni, Giovanna
Lindblad, Joakim
Sladoje, Nataša
Castellano, Ginevra
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Friendship and rapport play an important role in the formation of constructive social interactions, and have been widely studied in educational settings due to their impact on student outcomes. Given the growing interest in automating the analysis of such phenomena through Machine Learning (ML), access to annotated interaction datasets is highly valuable. However, no dataset on dyadic child-child interactions explicitly capturing rapport currently exists. Moreover, despite advances in the automatic analysis of human behaviour, no previous work has addressed the prediction of rapport in child-child dyadic interactions in educational settings. We present UpStory -- the Uppsala Storytelling dataset: a novel dataset of naturalistic dyadic interactions between primary school aged children, with an experimental manipulation of rapport. Pairs of children aged 8-10 participate in a task-oriented activity: designing a story together, while being allowed free movement within the play area. We promote balanced collection of different levels of rapport by using a within-subjects design: self-reported friendships are used to pair each child twice, either minimizing or maximizing pair separation in the friendship network. The dataset contains data for 35 pairs, totalling 3h 40m of audio and video recordings. It includes two video sources covering the play area, as well as separate voice recordings for each child. An anonymized version of the dataset is made publicly available, containing per-frame head pose, body pose, and face features; as well as per-pair information, including the level of rapport. Finally, we provide ML baselines for the prediction of rapport.
title UpStory: the Uppsala Storytelling dataset
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04352