NDLI: Measuring Voter's Candidate Preference Based on Affective Responses to Election Debates

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	McDuff, D. El Kaliouby, R. Kodra, E. Picard, R.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Affectiva, Waltham, MA, USA (McDuff, D.; El Kaliouby, R.; Kodra, E.; Picard, R.)
Abstract	In this paper we present the first analysis of facial responses to electoral debates measured automatically over the Internet. We show that significantly different responses can be detected from viewers with different political preferences and that similar expressions at significant moments can have very different meanings depending on the actions that appear subsequently. We used an Internet based framework to collect 611 naturalistic and spontaneous facial responses to five video clips from the 3rd presidential debate during the 2012 American presidential election campaign. Using this framework we were able to collect over 60% of these video responses (374 videos) within one day of the live debate and over 80% within three days. No participants were compensated for taking the survey. We present and evaluate a method for predicting independent voter preference based on automatically measured facial responses and self-reported preferences from the viewers. We predict voter preference with an average accuracy of over 73% (AUC 0.779).
Starting Page	369
Ending Page	374
File Size	1136996
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550480
ISSN	21568111
DOI	10.1109/ACII.2013.67
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-02
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Support vector machines Atmospheric measurements Nominations and elections Feature extraction Internet Face Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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