Causal Inference in Nonverbal Dyadic Communication with Relevant Interval Selection and Granger Causality

Understand

Human nonverbal emotional communication in dyadic dialogs is a process of mutual influence and adaptation.

• Identifying the direction of influence, or cause-effect relation between participants is a challenging task, due to two main obstacles.
• First, distinct emotions might not be clearly visible.
• Second, participants cause-effect relation is transient and variant over time.