Time Difference

High-Level Intuition

The response time between successive utterances.

Citation

Reichel, et al. (2015)

Implementation Basics

This feature counts the mean duration of a message in minutes by subtracting the timestamp of the next message from the current message. Mean and Standard Deviation for the message are subsequently calculated.

Implementation Notes/Caveats

NA

Interpreting the Feature

The difference between the timestamp of the current utterance and the previous utterance in seconds. We accept only DateTime objects, Unix timestamps, or the number of seconds elapsed from the beginning of the conversation.

Related Features

This feature helps us understand other temporal-related features, such as Burstiness (which measures whether the messages come in at regular intervals or whether they come in all at once in a short “burst”)