Automated Measurement of Facial Expression in Infant-Mother Interaction: A Pilot Study

Autor/inn/en	Messinger, Daniel S.; Mahoor, Mohammad H.; Chow, Sy-Miin; Cohn, Jeffrey F.
Titel	Automated Measurement of Facial Expression in Infant-Mother Interaction: A Pilot Study
Quelle	In: Infancy, 14 (2009) 3, S.285-305 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Mothers; Emotional Response; Construct Validity; Infants; Interaction; Human Body; Parent Child Relationship; Measurement Techniques; Correlation; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Mother; Mutter; Emotionales Verhalten; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Interaktion; Menschlicher Körper; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Messtechnik; Korrelation; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Automated facial measurement using computer vision has the potential to objectively document continuous changes in behavior. To examine emotional expression and communication, we used automated measurements to quantify smile strength, eye constriction, and mouth opening in two 6-month-old infant-mother dyads who each engaged in a face-to-face interaction. Automated measurements showed high associations with anatomically based manual coding (concurrent validity); measurements of smiling showed high associations with mean ratings of positive emotion made by naive observers (construct validity). For both infants and mothers, smile strength and eye constriction (the Duchenne marker) were correlated over time, creating a continuous index of smile intensity. Infant and mother smile activity exhibited changing (nonstationary) local patterns of association, suggesting the dyadic repair and dissolution of states of affective synchrony. The study provides insights into the potential and limitations of automated measurement of facial action. (Contains 3 figures, 2 footnotes and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10