Patent ID: 9443521
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61B,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-based method of measuring group conversation dynamics comprising: determining existence of respective conversations between two or more people, said determining including obtaining speech audio and body movement sensor data corresponding to each person, and from the obtained speech audio and body movement sensor data, defining start time and end time of each conversation, detecting number of participants in each conversation, and identifying participants involved in each conversation, wherein the speech audio and body movement sensor data is obtained from a wearable electronic sensor; from a stream of speech audio sensor data corresponding to a determined conversation, identifying participants' portions of the speech audio data as speech or silence; as a function of the identified speech and silence of participants in the determined conversation, detecting turn-taking among the participants in the determined conversation; from a stream of body movement sensor data corresponding to the determined conversation, identifying changes in body posture of the participants in the determined conversation; based on the obtained speech audio and body movement sensor data, calculating non-linguistic social signaling statistics of one of the participants; and outputting indications of said one participant's turns taken in the determined conversation.