Publications by Skanda Muralidhar

Ten seconds of my nights: Exploring methods to measure brightness, loudness and attendance and their associations with alcohol use from video clips

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Introduction Most evidence on associations between alcohol use behaviors and the characteristics of its social and physical context is based on self-reports from study participants and, thus, only account for their subjective impressions of the situation. ...

2021

Understanding Applicants' Reactions to Asynchronous Video Interviews through Self-Reports and Nonverbal Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar

Asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) are increasingly used by organizations in their hiring process. In this mode of interviewing, the applicants are asked to record their responses to predefined interview questions using a webcam via an online platform. A ...

ACM2020

Understanding Heavy Drinking at Night through Smartphone Sensing and Active Human Engagement

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Thanh Trung Phan

Heavy alcohol consumption can lead to many severe consequences. In this paper, we study the phenomenon of heavy drinking at night (4+ drinks for women or 5+ for men on a single evening), using a smartphone sensing dataset depicting about nightlife and drin ...

ACM2020

Drinks & Crowds: Characterizing Alcohol Consumption through Crowdsensing and Social Media

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Thanh Trung Phan

2019

Social Sensing Methods for Analysis of Dyadic Hospitality Encounters

Skanda Muralidhar

First impressions are critical to professional interactions, especially in service industry like hospitality. In the service industry, customers often assess quality of service based on the behavior, perceived personality, and other attributes of the front ...

EPFL2019

A Tale of Two Interactions: Inferring Performance in Hospitality Encounters from Cross-Situation Social Sensing

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar

2018

Facing Employers and Customers: What Do Gaze and Expressions Tell About Soft Skills?

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Rémy Alain Siegfried, Skanda Muralidhar

Eye gaze and facial expressions are central to face-to-face social interactions. These behavioral cues and their connections to first impressions have been widely studied in psychology and computing literature, but limited to a single situation. Utilizing ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Stressful First Impressions in Job Interviews

Laurent Son Nguyen, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar

Stress can impact many aspects of our lives, such as the way we interact and work with others, or the first impressions that we make. In the past, stress has most commonly been assessed through selfreported questionnaires; however, advancements in wearable ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Training on the Job: Behavioral Analysis of Job Interviews in Hospitality

Laurent Son Nguyen, Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Denise Frauendorfer

First impressions play a critical role in the hospitality industry and have been shown to be closely linked to the behavior of the person being judged. In this work, we implemented a behavioral training framework for hospitality students with the goal of i ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016