Program

Workshop Program

Amsterdam, September 13th 2009

Morning

9.00 - 9.15: Opening

9.15 - 10.00: Key Note Talk
Jeffrey Cohn (University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Session Chair: Roddy Cowie

10.00 - 10.15: Coffee Break

10.15 - 12.25: Oral Session 1 (per talk, 20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes questions)
Session Chair: Jeffrey Cohn

- P. Brunet, G. McKeown, R. Cowie, H. Donnan & E. Douglas-Cowie
“Social Signal Processing: What are the relevant variables? And in what ways do they relate?”
- I. Poggi & F. D'Errico
“Social signals and the action-cognition loop. The case of over-help and evaluation”
- A. Vinciarelli, S.Favre, H.Salamin & A.Dielmann
“Canal 9: A Database of Political Debates for Analysis of Social Interactions”
- K. Bousmalis, M. Mehu & M. Pantic
“Can agreement and disagreement be detected automatically?”
- D. Heylen, M. Theune, R. op den Akker & A. Nijholt
“Social Agents: the first generation”

12.30 - 14.15: Lunch Break

Afternoon

14.15 - 15.00: Key Note Talk
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
“Tracking the Second Channel of Information in Speech”
Session Chair: Alessandro Vinciarelli

15.00 - 15.15: Coffee Break

15.15 - 17.25: Oral Session 1 (per talk, 20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes questions)
Session Chair: Anton Nijholt

- C. Clavel, A. Rilliard, T. Shochi & J.C. Martin
“Cultural and Personality Differences in the Multimodal Perception and Expression of Attitudes and Emotions”
- M. Al Masum Shaikh, A.R.F. Rebordao, A. Nakasone, H. Prendinger & K. Hirose
“An Automatic Approach to Virtual Living based on Environmental Sound Cues”
- Y. Li & Y. Aloimonos
“The Action Synergies: Partitioning Human Motion Video into Action Segments”
- T. Gritti, J. Zondag & V. Jeanne
“Practical study on Real-time Hand Detection”
- K. Lohan, A.L. Vollmer, J. Fritsch, K. Rohlfing & B. Wrede
“Which ostensive stimuli can be used for a robot to detect and maintain tutoring situations?”

17.30 - 17.50: Panel Discussion (N.Campbell, J.Cassell, J.Cohn, A.Nijholt, and A.Vinciarelli)
Session Chair: Roddy Cowie

17.55 Closing