Distinguishing Engagement Facets: An Essential Component for AI-based Interactive Healthcare
This work addresses the need for fine-grained engagement analysis in healthcare applications for patients with conditions like ASD or ADHD, though it is incremental as it builds on prior engagement detection methods.
The paper tackled the problem of distinguishing multi-faceted engagement (behavioral, emotional, mental) in AI-based interactive healthcare, achieving an F-Score of 0.74 on a dataset of 22,242 instances using neural network classification.
Engagement in Human-Machine Interaction is the process by which entities participating in the interaction establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection. It is essential to monitor the engagement state of patients in various AI-based interactive healthcare paradigms. This includes medical conditions that alter social behavior such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Engagement is a multi-faceted construct which is composed of behavioral, emotional, and mental components. Previous research has neglected this multi-faceted nature of engagement and focused on the detection of engagement level or binary engagement label. In this paper, a system is presented to distinguish these facets using contextual and relational features. This can facilitate further fine-grained analysis. Several machine learning classifiers including traditional and deep learning models are compared for this task. An F-Score of 0.74 was obtained on a balanced dataset of 22242 instances with neural network-based classification. The proposed framework shall serve as a baseline for further research on engagement facets recognition, and its integration is socially assistive robotic applications.