2 papers
cs.HC2026
The Moment of Capture: How the First Seconds of a Speaker's Nonverbal and Verbal Performance Shapes Audience Judgments
Ralf Schmälzle, Yuetong Du, Sue Lim +1
Why do some speakers capture a room almost instantly while others fail to connect? The real-time architecture of audience engagement remains largely a black box. Here, we used moti…
cs.CL2025
The Art of Audience Engagement: LLM-Based Thin-Slicing of Scientific Talks
Ralf Schmälzle, Sue Lim, Yuetong Du +1
This paper examines the thin-slicing approach - the ability to make accurate judgments based on minimal information - in the context of scientific presentations. Drawing on researc…