Past Events

Events which have already happened.

IEEE TAP Special Issue on Multimodal Processing in Speech-based Interactions (from Saturday, 15 December 2007 to Saturday, 15 December 2007)

Special Issue of The IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing on Multimodal Processing in Speech-based Interactions

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology (from Thursday, 03 May 2007 to Thursday, 03 May 2007)

This special issue on Spoken Language Technology is motivated by the first SLT workshop, Aruba, December 2006, jointly sponsored by IEEE and ACL (www.slt2006.org). The goal is to solicit tutorial articles with comprehensive surveys of important theories, algorithms, tools, and applications of SLT on existing and new commercial, academic and government applications. Prospective authors should submit a white paper summarizing the motivation, the significance of the topic, brief history, and an outline of the content. Authors with accepted proposals will be invited to write a full manuscript.

EyesWeb Week 2006 (Genoa, Italy, from Monday, 06 February 2006 to Saturday, 11 February 2006)

EyesWeb Week 2006: the 1st Tutorial on the EyesWeb Open Platform, organized by InfoMus Lab – DIST – University of Genova. The EyesWeb Week is a tutorial aiming at sharing with participants the InfoMus Lab’s experience in scientific and technological developments as well as in artistic production matured around the EyesWeb project. The EyesWeb project focuses on different aspects of non-verbal multimodal communication, including human full-body movement and musical gesture, and aims at understanding the affective, expressive content gesture conveys. The project is centred on an open hardware and software platform, EyesWeb 4, for developing real-time multimedia applications characterised by multimodal interaction. Research and development in the EyesWeb project are partially supported by several EU-IST and national projects. This one-week tutorial aims at providing scientists, technicians, and artists with the opportunity to master and explore in detail the EyesWeb project and open platform. Lectures and experiments are structured in different tracks: a track is specifically designed for dancers, choreographers, musicians, and content creators. A parallel track concerns the internals and core architecture of the new EyesWeb 4 platform and related libraries for multimodal analysis, and it is focused for computer engineers and professionals. Participants will be introduced to the different aspects of the EyesWeb project – from design to implementation of experience-centric mediated interactive systems to software and system engineering issues. Sample hands-on and installations will be faced, also according to participants’ skills and demands. Participants are encouraged to present and discuss their own EyesWeb projects at the EyesWeb Week.

ENACTIVE05 International Conference (Genova, Italy, from Thursday, 17 November 2005 to Friday, 18 November 2005)

The 2nd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (www.enactive2005.org), promoted by the European Union Network of Excellence ENACTIVE (www.enactivenetwork.org). The scope of the conference is creating a truly multidisciplinary research community on the new generation of human-computer interfaces called Enactive Interfaces. Enactive Interfaces are related to a fundamental "interaction" concept which is not exploited by most of the existing human-computer interface technologies. In the symbolic way of learning, knowledge is stored as words, mathematical symbols or other symbol systems, while in the iconic stage knowledge is stored in the form of visual images, such as diagrams and illustrations. On the other hand, ENACTIVE knowledge is a form of knowledge based on action for apprehension tasks. Enactive knowledge is not simply multisensory mediated knowledge, but knowledge stored in the form of motor responses and acquired by the act of "doing". A typical example of enactive knowledge is constituted by the competence required by tasks such as driving a car, dancing, playing a musical instrument, modelling objects from clay, performing sports. This type of knowledge transmission can be considered the most direct, in the sense that it is natural and intuitive, since it is based on the experience and on the perceptual responses to motor acts. Deadline for submission of papers: September 3, 2005.

First International Conference on "Affective Computing and Intelligent Interfaces" (Beijing, from Sunday, 23 October 2005 to Monday, 24 October 2005)

Traditional human machine interaction is normally based on passive instruments such as keyboard, mouse, etc. It’s impossible for them to understand and express emotions. Without the ability of emotion processing, computers cannot be expected to be a human-like machine, and also cannot be expected to communicate with humans in a natural and harmonious way. Emotion is one of the most important features of humans. We therefore expect that computers should have the ability to process emotion and to interact with human users in a natural way. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is a key technology to enable computers to observe, understand and synthesize emotions, and to behave vividly. We decided to promote this Conference in order to provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers, and graduate students to present and discuss new problems, solutions, and technologies in the area.

Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents Festival (Hong Kong, from Monday, 17 October 2005 to Wednesday, 19 October 2005)

GALA - Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents - is an annual festival meant, first of all, but not exclusively, for students, to showcase novel applications of and tools for animated lifelike agents. There will be awards given by an international jury for students’ submissions. Finalists will be invited to present their work at the GALA festival, this year as side-event of CASA05, and in the permanent on-line GALA Gallery. There are two participants tracks: students and others, and two submission categories: animated lifelike agent application and creation. The deadline for 2-4 minutes movie submissions is 30 June.

A Call for Participation for: IVA'05 (Kos, Greece, from Monday, 12 September 2005 to Wednesday, 14 September 2005)

Including the GALA competition: Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents Keynotes include: Justine Cassell Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 covers all aspects of embodied interactive graphical characters and brings together researchers in AI, ALIFE, graphics, psychology, computer games as well as artisits and practitioners

Abuse: The darker side of human computer interaction (Rome, from Monday, 12 September 2005 to Monday, 12 September 2005)

Computers are often the subject of our wrath and often, we feel,with good reason. There seems to be something intrinsic to this medium which brings out the darker side of human nature. Why is that? This is an INTERACT '05 workshop. See the web page for the prgogramme

Special Session on "Emotional Speech Analysis and Synthesis" at Interspeech 2005 (Lisbon, from Tuesday, 06 September 2005 to Tuesday, 06 September 2005)

 

HUMAN-ANIMATED CHARACTERS INTERACTION Workshop (Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, from Tuesday, 06 September 2005 to Tuesday, 06 September 2005)

*** Deadline EXTENDED to : Friday 3rd June 2005 *** EVENT SPONSORED BY HUMAINE. The workshop is part of HCI 2005: The Bigger Picture, the 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference (http://www.hci2005.org/). WORKSHOP THEMES: SESSION 1: Interaction modalities and Technology for Interaction Position papers are sought describing the design and evaluation of various modalities of interaction between humans and animated characters and the related technology. SESSION 2: Graphical Depiction of Synthetic Characters This session of the workshop will seek submission of research papers that speculate on the appearance of animated characters. SESSION 3: Personality and Emotions This session will explore how the believability of animated characters can be enhanced through displaying recognisable personality traits, and focus on what aspects of interaction can facilitate the development of emotional bonds. SESSION 4: Speech and Language Position papers describing the state-of-the-art of language understanding, generation and speech of animated characters will be presented in this session.

S2S^2 Summer School (Genova, Italy, from Monday, 25 July 2005 to Friday, 29 July 2005)

The core theme of this school is on the gap between Sound and Sense, that is, between low-level, physical modelling of sound, and high-level representations and models related to perception, cognition, affect, expression, and gesture (sense). The school will focus on crucial open research problems, also faced in problem-oriented concrete work involving participants, including round-tables and presentation by leading researchers from related fields. The last day will cover a finalisation of the work and a joint discussion and planning of future research in the S2S2 field. The School is organized by the EU-IST Coordinated Action S2S^2 (Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound) with the participation of the HUMAINE Network. Deadline for registration: June 20, 2005. For further information see www.s2s2.org.

Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors (Edinburgh, 24 or 25 July 2005, from Sunday, 24 July 2005 to Monday, 25 July 2005)

The goal of this Workshop is to promote comparison of experiences and discussion on the specific problems which arise in extending user modeling and adaptation of interaction to affective factors. These Workwhops have become almost a tradition at UM Conferences, and the best papers presented in the previous editions have been published on Special Issues of the International Journals 'User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction' and 'Applied Artificial Intelligence'

eNTERFACE 05: summer workshop on multimodal interfaces (Mons, Belgium, from Monday, 18 July 2005 to Friday, 12 August 2005)

The eNTERFACE summer workshops, organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence (www.similar.cc), aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week ends by a presentation session, starting by a tutorial state-of-the art survey of aspects of multimodal interfaces design, given by an invited senior researcher, and followed by a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The eNTERFACE'05 committee now invites candidate participants to apply for a summer workshop on multimodal interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, from July 18th to August 12th, 2005. eNTERFACE'05 will welcome 40 students, researchers, and seniors, working in teams on the following projects (selected from the proposals we have received in a previous Call for Projects): Combined Gesture-Speech Analysis and Synthesis, Multimodal Caricatural Mirror, Biologically-driven musical instrument, Multimodal Focus Attention Detection in an Augmented Driver Simulator, Multilingual Multimodal Biometric Identification/Verification, Speech Conductor, A Multimodal (Gesture+Speech) Interface for 3D Model Search and Retrieval Integrated in a Virtual Assembly Application.

MLMI-05 (Edinburgh, UK, from Monday, 11 July 2005 to Tuesday, 12 July 2005)

2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms

WP7 Workshop, Emotion in Cognition and Action (Kings College London, from Monday, 04 July 2005 to Tuesday, 05 July 2005)

The workshop of WP7, "Emotion in Cognition and Action", will be held on July 4 & 5 at Kings College London, Strand Campus. The workshop will start early in the morning of July 4 and will last the two full days. In addition, working groups are encouraged to schedule working meetings regarding different aspects of the exemplar on either / both the previous / the following day (July 3 / 6, respecively).

Second HUMAINE Plenary Meeting (Newcastle, Northern Ireland, from Tuesday, 24 May 2005 to Friday, 27 May 2005)

 

Workshop on "Emotion" at LREC 2006: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect (LREC2006, from Monday, 23 May 2005 to Monday, 23 May 2005)

 

AISB'05 syposium on motivation and emotion (University of Hertfordshire, UK, from Wednesday, 20 October 2004 to Wednesday, 03 November 2004)

2nd Call for Contributions: AGENTS THAT WANT AND LIKE: MOTIVATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL ROOTS OF COGNITION AND ACTION. Symposium of the AISB'05 Convention, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 14th - 15th April, 2005. ** Submission Deadline: October 31, 2004 **

HCI2004 Workshop on Empathy in Human Computer Interaction (from Tuesday, 07 September 2004 to Tuesday, 07 September 2004)

 

Symposium on Computer Animation (Grenoble, from Friday, 27 August 2004 to Sunday, 29 August 2004)

There is a growing trend in Computer Animation to address issues like believability, perception of motion, expressive motion, and of course bridging the gap between behavioral control and low level motion control. These topics are open to submissions in the next SIGGRAPH/EUrographics Symposium on Computer Animation, for the first time held in Europe, in Grenoble, France, on August 27-29th. Submission deadline: April 9th.