Conversations in poster sessions in academic events, referred to as poster conversations, pose interesting, and challenging topics on multi-modal signal and information processing. We have developed a smart posterboard for multi-modal recording and analysis of poster conversations. The smart posterboard has multiple sensing devices to record poster conversations, so we can review who came to the poster and what kind of questions or comments he/she made. The conversation analysis incorporates face and eye-gaze tracking for effective speaker diarization. It is demonstrated that eye-gaze information is useful for predicting turn-taking and also improving speaker diarization. Moreover, high-level indexing of interest and comprehension level of the audience is explored based on the multi-modal behaviors during the conversation. This is realized by predicting the audience's speech acts such as questions and reactive tokens.

Usually, reflections on corporate governance take an inside perspective, i.e., a shareholder's or a director's point of view. Two perspectives are underrepresented in the discussion: firstly, an analysis from a regulatory perspective, i.e., from the government's point of view; secondly, an analysis that draws on the recent literature on behavioral economics, experimental economics, and psychology. This paper tries to compensate for this gap in the literature.

The claim of this paper is that there is some potential for regulatory intervention to change corporate conduct by modifying the institutional design. However, this potential is limited. The paper addresses the task of institutional design by applying behavioral analysis and provides an analysis of concrete, real-world legal corporate governance institutions. It explores potentials for changing corporate conduct by accordingly shaping institutions on the basis of the foregoing behavioral analysis