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International Workshop: POLITICAL SPEECH – IL PARLATO POLITICO In the last years, the body has been considered more and more important in political communication, also for the omnipresence of political news and political talk shows in media. Moreover, the body aspects of persuasive communication have gained new concern in the research areas of Persuasive Agents and Social Signal Processing. This workshop aims at investigating “political speech”: the monological and dialogical forms where political persuasion is attained through face to face or media communication, making use of the whole repertoire of body communication: words, prosody, gesture, gaze, face, posture, proxemics. Università Roma Tre, Roma, 10 November 2010 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Special Issue on Naturalistic Affect Resources for System Building and Evaluation This special issue focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel and existing mono- and multimodal affective resources. Alternatively, ways to better exploit existing corpora by improved standardization and combination can be addressed. Necessary steps in this direction comprise mapping schemes to overcome the peculiarities of the field – such as categorical, complex or dimensional, and unstable annotation, and measurements to automatically assess similarity, type, and quality of resources. Also needed are new ways to establish semi-supervised processing of large resources by media tagging, or ways to better bundle efforts of the community, e.g. by shared and distributed collection and annotation of data. Finally, for better exchange and comparability of reported results, partitioning and evaluation strategies will benefit from further discussion. The issues mentioned may be exemplified by novel naturalistic resources or by exploiting existing ones. 08 July 2010

BOOK: Affective Information Processing 04 July 2010 2 PhD Fellowships in Psychology - Artifical Emotions - Jacobs University Bremen 02 July 2010 ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems / Special issue on on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments 30 June 2010 Emotion and Computing - Current Research and Future Impact Karlsruhe, Germany, 24 September 2010 First Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing (ACSSP10) Edinburgh, 30 August 2010 More news...

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