Emilie Delaherche

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique

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About

Emilie Delaherche is a leading researcher at the intersection of social signal processing, human-robot interaction, and computational behavior analysis. Her work focuses on understanding the subtle, non-verbal cues that underpin human social coordination—particularly interpersonal synchrony and imitation. Delaherche’s most influential contribution is her landmark survey, “Interpersonal Synchrony: A Survey of Evaluation Methods across Disciplines” (2012), which has garnered over 440 citations. This comprehensive review synthesized methods from psychology, robotics, and signal processing, establishing a foundational framework for analyzing how individuals temporally coordinate their movements and speech during interaction. She further advanced the field by designing child-adult imitation tasks to automatically compute turn-taking and movement cues, providing objective, quantitative insights into high-level social coordination. Her work on automatic imitation assessment and learning postures through human-robot imitation games has direct implications for social robotics and assistive technologies. By bridging computational methods with behavioral science, Delaherche has helped pave the way for machines that can perceive, interpret, and respond to the nuanced rhythms of human interaction—a critical step toward more natural and effective human-robot collaboration.