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Self-esteem recognition based on gait pattern using Kinect
First author: Sun Bingli
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Background: Self-esteem is an important aspect of individuals mental health. When subjects are not able to complete self-report questionnaire, behavioral assessment will be a good supplement. In this paper, we propose to use gait data collected by Kinect as an indicator to recognize self-esteem.
Methods: 178 graduate students without disabilities participate in our study. Firstly, all participants complete the 10-item Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSS) to acquire self-esteem score. After completing the RRS, each participant walks for two minutes naturally on a rectangular red carpet, and the gait data are recorded using Kinect sensor. After data preprocessing, we extract a few behavioral features to train predicting model by machine learning. Based on these features, we build predicting models to recognize self-esteem.
Results: For self-esteem prediction, the best correlation coefficient between predicted score and self-report score is 0.45 (p < 0.001). We divide the participants according to gender, and for males, the correlation coefficient is 0.43 (p < 0.001), for females, it is 0.59 (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Using gait data captured by Kinect sensor, we find that the gait pattern could be used to recognize self-esteem with a fairly good criterion validity. The gait predicting model can be taken as a good supplementary method to measure self-esteem.

Contact the author: Zhu Tingshao
Page number: 428-432
Issue: 58
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PubYear: 2017
Volume: 0
Unit code: 153111
Publication name: Gait and Posture
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