SSPNet Workshop on
Foundations of Social Signals
Mission
Exchanging social signals is one of the most common activities of our life. Whenever we are in presence of others, we are involved in an interactional dance where social facts take the form of behaviors as simple and spontaneous as gestures, facial expressions and intonations. These contribute to define the meaning of our verbal exchanges and are the key of our correct understanding of the people we have around.
After having been extensively investigated in human sciences, social signals are now attracting major attention in the computing community. Social signals are expected to be the key towards artificial social intelligence, i.e. socially adept machines capable of correctly understanding human social behavior, generating appropriate responses to it, and seamlessly integrating human-human communication.
This workshop gathers researchers belonging to both human sciences and computing communities with the goal of building a shared understanding of what social signals are. Furthermore it helps at exploring how disciplines traditionally far like human and computing science can mutually benefit from one another.
Program
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Call for Participation
Researchers active in Social Signal Processing, in particular PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, are warmly invited to present their activities and results in this workshop. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Social Signal Processing
- Social Psychology
- Multimodal Analysis and Synthesis of Human Behavior
- Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Expressions
- Gestures and Action Recognition
- Analysis and Synthesis of Expressive Speech
- Applications of Social Signal Processing
Prospective participants are expected to submit a title and an abstract of no more than 200 words to the members of the organizing committee (see below).
Important Dates
Title and abstract submission: October 24th 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 5th, 2009
Workshop: December 3-5, 2009
Venue
December 3rd-5th, 2009
Università Roma Tre
Aula Magna Rettorato
Via Ostiense 161, 00154 Roma (Italy)
Organizing Committee
Isabella Poggi (Università Roma Tre, Italy), poggi (at) uniroma3 (dot) it
Francesca D’Errico (Università Roma Tre, Italy), fderrico (at) uniroma3 (dot) it
Alessandro Vinciarelli (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland), vincia (at) idiap (dot) ch
The course is organized by the Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNet)
