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05 October 2010 - 06 October 2010 Paris, France
The W3C Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) is a representation of emotions and emotion-related states for use in technology. It aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The workshop is aimed at receiving feedback from the community on the current EmotionML specification.
Deadline: 06 September 2010
28 January 2011 - 29 January 2011 Rome, Italy
B-INTERFACE aims for assembling researchers from diverse backgrounds, signal processing, biomedical engineering, human-computer interaction, neurophysiology, machine learning, etc., to discuss their ideas and solutions and to build a new vision of bio-inspired interfaces and healthcare applications.
Deadline: 30 September 2010
a natural visible and infrared facial expression database
University College London, UCL Interaction Centre PhD Studentship in Machine Learning: Automatic recognition of patient’s affective state in pain rehabilitation Applications are invited for a PhD studentship on the design and development of an intelligent system to enable ubiquitous monitoring and assessment of patients’ pain-related moods and movements. Based at the UCL Interaction Centre (www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk), the student will be part of a multidisciplinary group within the EPSRC-funded project Emo&Pain (http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/n.berthouze/EPain/).
University College London, UCL Interaction Centre PhD Studentship in Adaptive Interactive System/HCI for pain rehabilitation Applications are invited for a PhD studentship on the design and development of an interactive system to monitor and motivate a patient with chronic pain during physical exercise sessions. Based at the UCL Interaction Centre (www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk ), the student will be part of a multidisciplinary group within the EPSRC-funded project E-Pain (http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/n.berthouze/EPain/). <BR> Closing date for applications is 19 August 2010. Interviews will be held around 26 August 2010.
10 November 2010 - 12 November 2010 Università Roma Tre, Roma
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.
Deadline: 15 July 2010
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.
Deadline: 01 November 2010
Affective information processing is intended to give computers the human-like capabilities of observation, interpretation and generation of affect features. It is essential for natural and effective human-computer interaction and has become a very hot research topic. This state-of-the-art volume discusses the latest developments in affective information processing, and summarises the key technologies researched, such as facial expression recognition, face animation, emotional speech synthesis, intelligent agents, and virtual reality. The detailed and accessible coverage includes a wide range of topics, including areas which look to challenge and improve current research. The book is organised into the following themed parts to aid the readers in their understanding of the field: Cognitive Emotion Model, Affect in Speech, Affect in Face and Affect in Multimodal Interaction.
Jacobs University Bremen invites applications for two PhD studentships in psychology to carry out research in the context of eCUTE - an EU funded project - on artificial emotions, with the start date of September 2010.
This special issue will cover computational techniques for the recognition and interpretation of human multimodal verbal and nonverbal behavior, models of mentalizing and empathizing for interaction, and multimedia techniques for the synthesis of believable social behavior supporting human-agent and human-robot interaction. A key aim of the special issue is the identification and investigation of important open issues in real-time, affect-aware applications "in the wild" and especially in embodied interaction, i.e., with robots and embodied conversational agents. We encourage the submission of studies that provide new insights into the use of multimodal and multimedia techniques for enabling interaction between humans, robots, and virtual agents in naturalistic settings.
Deadline: 06 December 2010
24 September 2010 - 24 September 2010 Karlsruhe, Germany
The workshop series "emotion and computing - current research and future impact" has been providing a platform for discussion of emotion related topics of computer science and AI since 2006. In recent years computer science research has shown increasing efforts in the field of software agents which incorporate emotion. Several approaches have been made concerning emotion recognition, emotion modelling, generation of emotional user interfaces and dialogue systems as well as anthropomorphic communication agents. Motivations for emotional computing are manifold. From a scientific point of view, emotions play an essential role in decision making, as well as in perception and learning. Furthermore, emotions influence rational thinking and therefore should be part of rational agents as proposed by artificial intelligence research. Another focus is on human computer interfaces which include believable animations of interface agents. From a user perspective, emotional interfaces can significantly increase motivation and engagement which is of high relevance to the games and e-learning industry. This workshop intends to discuss the scientific methods considering their benefit for current and future applications. Especially when regarding the subject of emotion recognition, this also includes ethical aspects.
Deadline: 09 July 2010
30 August 2010 - 01 September 2010 Edinburgh
The First Summer School on Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing aims to provide a high quality forum for students and researchers active in affective computing and social signal processing worldwide.
Deadline: 10 June 2010
29 October 2010 - 29 October 2010 Florence, Italy
A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, and human-centered multimedia interfaces is the ability to infer the affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate, timely output during sustained social interactions. Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the interaction or providing suitable empathic responses through the display of facial expressions, gestures, or generation of speech. This workshop will cover real-time computational techniques for the recognition and interpretation of human multimodal verbal and non-verbal behaviour, models of mentalising and empathising for interaction, and multimedia techniques for synthesis of believable social behaviour supporting human-agent and human-robot interaction.
One machine learning studentship on the Emo&Pain project We invite applications for one studentship on the Emo&Pain project, developing a system to recognize patients’ emotional states and pain level from body movement cues as well as EMG signals captured during self-directed physiotherapy sessions. Emo&Pain is a large EPSRC-funded multi-disciplinary research project that brings together researchers from UCL, Imperial College and Leicester University. The studentship is for 42 months, and eligible UK/EU candidates will receive a tax-free stipend and will have their fees paid. The closing date for applications is 9 June 2010 with interviews held on or shortly after 18 June 2010. More information on the project and on how to apply can be found at http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/n.berthouze/EPain.html.
We invite applications for one studentship on the Emo&Pain project, developing the interface of a virtual pain rehabilitation coaching system supporting patients during self-directed physiotherapy. Emo&Pain is a large EPSRC-funded multi-disciplinary research project that brings together researchers from UCL, Imperial College and Leicester University. The studentship is for 42 months, and eligible UK/EU candidates will receive a tax-free stipend and will have their fees paid. The closing date for applications is 9 June 2010 with interviews held on or shortly after 18 June 2010. More information on the project and on how to apply can be found at http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/n.berthouze/EPain.html.
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