Modeling Human Behaviors in Psychology Using Engineering Methods

Chi-Chun Lee

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9788793102606
• eBook ISBN: 9781000797343
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

The main purpose of the work is to showcase the interdisciplinary engineering approaches in modeling and understanding human behaviors during interpersonal interactions those that could be typical, distressed, or atypical. The ability to measure human behaviors quantitatively has been a core component and a major research direction in both fields of engineering and psychology – though often with distinct approaches designed for different targeted applications. Engineering methods often strive to achieve high predictive accuracies using behavioral informatics techniques; these techniques employ a combination of behavior measures derived using automated signal based descriptors, and of statistical frameworks modeled using machine learning techniques. These approaches are often distinct from the observational approaches the gold standard for the past three decades in the study of psychology, even in clinical settings. The observational approaches are largely based on human subjective judgments.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• I Modeling Human Behaviors: An Engineering Approach
• II Affective Computing from Speech
• III Quantifying Human Behavior in Psychology
• IV Data-driven Perceptual Experiment
• V Outlook of BSP
• Bibliography
• Author Biography