Observational and Accelerometer Analysis of Head Movement Patterns in Psychotherapeutic Dialogue

Sensors

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Masashi Inoue¹  Ryoko Hanada²  Nobuhiro Furuyama³  Toshio Irino⁴ 

[1] Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology, 35-1 Yagiyama Kasumicho, Taihaku-ku, Sendai 982-8577, Japan;

[2] Department of Psychology, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, 2-6-1 Zempukuji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167-8585, Japan;

[3] Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Saitama, Tokorozawa City 359-1192, Japan;

[4] Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University, Sakaedani 930, Wakayama City 640-8510, Japan;

关键词: head nod;    head movement;    dialogue progression;    psychotherapy;    face-to-face counseling;    case study;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s21093162

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Psychotherapists, who use their communicative skills to assist people, review their dialogue practices and improve their skills from their experiences. However, technology has not been fully exploited for this purpose. In this study, we analyze the use of head movements during actual psychotherapeutic dialogues between two participants—therapist and client—using video recordings and head-mounted accelerometers. Accelerometers have been utilized in the mental health domain but not for analyzing mental health related communications. We examined the relationship between the state of the interaction and temporally varying head nod and movement patterns in psychological counseling sessions. Head nods were manually annotated and the head movements were measured using accelerometers. Head nod counts were analyzed based on annotations taken from video data. We conducted cross-correlation analysis of the head movements of the two participants using the accelerometer data. The results of two case studies suggest that upward and downward head nod count patterns may reflect stage transitions in counseling dialogues and that peaks of head movement synchrony may be related to emphasis in the interaction.

【 授权许可】

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