The main purpose of this book is to showcase the interdisciplinary engineering approaches in modeling and understanding human behaviors during interpersonal interactions that could be typical, distressed, or atypical. The ability to measure human behaviors quantitatively has been a core component and a major research direction in both fields of engineering and psychology - though often with distinct approaches designed for different targeted applications.

Engineering methods often strive to achieve high predictive accuracies using behavioral informatic techniques. These techniques...