Automatic multimodal assessment of soft skills in social interactions: a review

Sowmya Rasipuram, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Abstract: Automatic assessment of soft skills is an interesting problem in social computing. Soft skills are essential to any individual for personal and career development. Soft skills assessment includes Big Five personality, social and communication skill and leadership skill can now be enabled using behavior tracking and mapping behavior to perception. Such assessments can be used for manpower selection and training. This paper reviews the existing literature on automatic analysis of social interactions for soft skill assessment in different contexts. A variety of social situations offline and online methods are considered for assessment. Offline methods include traditional forms of discussion without any technology mediation. Online methods utilize technology for scalability and alleviate the assessment process without collocation of multiple parties. We address some of the challenges that are still open in the field.