Social Signal Processing Network
Abstract. The ability to understand and manage social signals of a
person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence.
Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been
argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success
in life.
Although each one of us understands the importance of social signals in
everyday life situations, and in spite of recent advances in machine
analysis and synthesis of relevant behavioural cues like blinks,
smiles, crossed arms, laughter, etc., the research efforts in machine
analysis and synthesis of human social signals like empathy,
politeness, and (dis)agreement, are few and tentative. The main reasons
for this are the absence of a research agenda and the lack of suitable
resources for experimentation.
The mission of the SSPNet is to create a sufficient momentum by
integrating an existing large amount of knowledge and available
resources in Social Signal Processing (SSP) research domains including
cognitive modelling, machine understanding, and synthesizing social
behaviour, and so: (i) enable creation of the European and world
research agenda in SSP, (ii) provide efficient and effective access to
SSP-relevant tools and data repositories to the research community
within and beyond the SSPNet, and (iii) further develop complementary
and multidisciplinary expertise necessary for pushing forward the
cutting edge of the research in SSP.
The collective SSPNet research effort will be directed towards
integration of existing SSP theories and technologies, and towards
identification and exploration of potentials and limitations in SSP. A
particular scientific challenge that binds the partners is the
synergetic combination of human-human interaction models and tools for
human behaviour sensing and synthesis within socially-adept multimodal
interfaces.
Partners
- Idiap, Research Institute, the Coordinator
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
- UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA TRE
- QUEEN’S UNIVERSTIY BELFAST
- DFKI
- CNRS
- UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
