Personal tools
You are here: Home

Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Singapore

Singapore's national agency for promoting world-class research in science and technology (A*STAR), is launching a new research programme to study and simulate the complex social and cognitive processes fundamental to socially appropriate, coherent, and understandable behavior in Human-Robot/Agent and Agent/Agent Interaction contexts.

Robots learn to express emotions

Feelix-Growing, one of the follow-up projects of Humaine, is featured in Euronews.

2nd Call for Speakers and Exhibitors at the PEACH Industry Event

This event is focused on assessing future market trends and opportunities for presence technologies and applications, and addresses both market actors and the research community. The event is co-located with the VIEW 9 Conference, "Digital Convergence", which will be held on 11-14 November 2008. 2nd CALL FOR SPEAKERS Candidates are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) in English within 27 June 2008.

AFFINE - Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation for virtual agents and robots

24 October 2008 - 24 October 2008   Chania, Crete

The First AFFINE workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments will be hosted at the Tenth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) to be held in Chania, Crete, on the 24th of October 2008, following the main conference. The duration of the workshop is one day.

Deadline:  07 July 2008

PhD studentship in machine learning for affective computing (UCL)

The UCL Interaction Centre (http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/) at the University College London (UK) is seeking an outstanding PhD student to contribute to our project on modelling affective body language in patients with chronic back pain.

Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction - Designing for People -

02 September 2008 - 02 September 2008   Liverpool, UK

Emotion are what make our interactions human. Discuss how technology can live up to this, which issues might arise, and how to approach these!

Deadline:  03 July 2008

Workshop on Multimodal Corpora at LREC 2008

27 May 2008 - 27 May 2008   Marrakech (Morocco)

The focus of this LREC'2008 workshop on multimodal corpora will be on models of natural interaction and their contribution to the design of multimodal systems and applications.

ICMPC-Rencon

25 August 2008 - 27 August 2008   Hokkaido University, Japan

``Rencon'' is the project of musical performance RENdering CONtests since 2002. The newest Rencon workshop will be held on the co-host of ICMPC10. There will be two sections in the contest: an autonomous section, and a type-in section. An open section is planned, in order to make RENCON appealing also for performance rendering systems not focusing on piano performance.

Deadline:  15 April 2008

2nd PEACH Summer School: Technologies and Applications

09 July 2008 - 11 July 2008   Dubrovnik, Croatia

The Second PEACH Summer School: 9-11th July 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia "Technologies and Applications"

Deadline:  18 April 2008

Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08)

01 September 2008 - 03 September 2008   Tokyo, Japan

IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

Deadline:  11 April 2008

Workshop on Affect-aware Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction

15 July 2008 - 15 July 2008   Athens. Greece

The workshop takes place during the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

Deadline:  30 March 2008

New database available for download: VAM

The "Vera am Mittag" audio-visual database of German spontaneous speech, compiled by Michael Grimm of the University of Karlsruhe, is now available for download from the HUMAINE Association portal.

Portal restructured

The HUMAINE portal has undergone a face-lifting, to make it clear it is now truly changing from a community-oriented project website into community-centered Association portal. Data specific to the HUMAINE project has been moved below projects/humaine.

International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Affectual and Emotional Interactions

21 July 2008 - 22 July 2008   Patras, Greece

CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational modeling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic realisation, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction.

Deadline:  10 April 2008

Special Issue of CSL: "Affective Speech in real-life interactions"

The motivation of this special issue is to report innovative work on the modelling and generation of affect in real-life speech and spoken interaction (including human-human or human-machine interaction, multi-party interaction) or in “realistic” interactions (including realistic fictions) - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15, 2008 -

Deadline:  15 June 2008

Powered by Plone

Portal usage statistics