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Date: 08-Nov-2010
From: Bjoern Schuller [schuller at tum.de]
Subject: EmoSPACE 2011
 

	
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:49:08
From: Bjoern Schuller [schuller at tum.de]
Subject: EmoSPACE 2011

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Full Title: EmoSPACE 2011 
Short Title: EmoSPACE 

Date: 24-Mar-2011 - 25-Mar-2011
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Bjoern Schuller
Meeting Email: schuller at tum.de
Web Site: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emospace 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 14-Dec-2010 

Meeting Description:

1st International Workshop on 
Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and 
Analysis in Continuous spacE 

In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011

Santa Barbara, 24./25. March, 2011

Human affective behaviour is multimodal, continuous and complex. Despite major advances within the affective computing research field, modelling, analysing, interpreting and responding to human affective behaviour still remains as a challenge for automated systems as emotions are complex constructs, with fuzzy boundaries and with substantial individual variations in expression and experience. Therefore, affective and behavioural computing researchers have recently invested increased effort in exploring how to best model, analyse and interpret the subtlety, complexity and continuity of affective behaviour in terms of latent dimensions and appraisals, rather than in terms of a small number of discrete emotion categories.

The key aim of this workshop is to present cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic, dimensional and continuous analysis and synthesis of human emotional behaviour in an interdisciplinary forum of affective and behavioural scientists. More specifically, the workshop aims (i) to bring forth existing efforts and major accomplishments in modelling, analysis and synthesis of emotional expressions in dimensional and continuous spaces, (ii) while encouraging the design of novel applications in context as diverse as human computer and human-robot interaction, clinical and biomedical studies, learning and driving environments, and entertainment technology, and (iii) to focus on open issues and new challenges in the field. The workshop will also bring together two Keynote Speakers who are leading experts in modelling and analysis of naturalistic emotions in dimensional and continuous spaces. 

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emospace

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/EmoSPACE-IEEE-FG2011-CFP.pdf

Workshop Organisers:

Hatice Gunes, Imperial College London, UK, h.gunes at imperial.ac.uk
Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schuller at tum.de
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK, m.pantic at imperial.ac.uk
Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast, UK, R.Cowie at qub.ac.uk


Program Committee:

Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK
Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis, USA
Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, USA
Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France
Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK
Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK 

Call for Papers

While this conference is highly interdisciplinary in nature, we seek contributions from linguists on how language is displayed in natural languages, and the implications this may have for computational affect modelling in dimensional space. How humans interpret emotional cues in various contexts and cultures poses an interesting challenge for translating emotion in computing research. For this reason, we appeal to linguists in relevant areas of computational linguistics, cognitive science, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics for insight on pursuing our objectives.

Suggested workshop topics include, but are by no means limited to:

Modalities and cues for dimensional emotion recognition
- Facial expressions
- Head movements and gestures
- Body postures and gestures
- Audio (e.g., speech, non-linguistic vocalisations, etc.)
- Bio signals (e.g., heart, brain, thermal signals, etc.)

Automatic analysis and prediction:
- Approaches for discretised and continuous prediction of emotions
- Identifying appropriate classification and prediction methods
- Introducing or identifying optimal strategies for fusion
- Techniques for modelling high inter-subject variation
- Approaches to determining duration of emotions for automatic analysis

Data acquisition and annotation:
- Elicitation of emotions
- Individual variations (interpersonal and cognitive issues)
- (Multimodal) naturalistic data sets annotated in dimensional spaces
- (Multimodal) annotation tools for dimensional emotions
- Modelling annotations from multiple raters and their reliability

Applications:
- Interaction with robots, virtual agents, and games (including tutoring)
- Single and multi-user smart environments (e.g., in a car)
- Implicit (multimedia) tagging
- Clinical and biomedical studies (e.g., autism, depression, pain etc.)

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 14 December 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2011
Camera Ready Paper: 19 January 2011
Workshop: 24 or 25 March 2011 (t.b.a.)




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