First HUMAINE Workshop, Geneva June 17-19, 2004

Geneva will hold the first Humaine workshop on "Theories and Models of Emotion"!

Workshops aim at gathering Humaine members around thematic areas and are devoted to a cross-disciplinary dialog on application boundaries.
Officially, the workshop is meant to "develop connections between the Psychology research community and the research community concerned with emotion-oriented systems. Its function is partly didactic, in that researchers with a mainly technological background need to know about the theory and evidence assembled by other disciplines."

In order to achieve this goal, the format of the workshop is largely based on interactions between people, introducing a question/answer process to emulate cognitive appetites.

This section of the Humaine portal gathers detailed information on the workshop. Soon after the end of the workshop, you will also be able to find some of the material which will be produced during the workshop. Any question or concern should be addressed to Etienne Roesch.

So far, in addition of the agenda of the event, you can find the description of the talks which have been selected for Friday morning "Hands-on demonstrations of artificial emotion systems". Each presenter has been asked to provide a quick background information to allow them to focus on a description of their system rather than spending a precious time describing basic concepts.

You can find here some information about accommodation.

If you want to print this page you can either use the pretty-print function of the portal (top-right corner of this page) or download a complete .pdf brochure here.

WHEN:

From Thursday, June 17, 2004 — 6pm
To Saturday, June 19, 2004 — around 6pm

WHERE:

University of Geneva - Uni-Mail
40 Boulevard du Pont d'Arve
1205 Geneva
SWITZERLAND

WHAT:

Hands-on demonstrations of artificial emotion systems

Additional material has been uploaded by selected speakers. Some of it is restricted to HUMAINE members ; i.e., non-HUMAINE members will not be able to see the content of the directory.

Rules to be followed by the speakers:

• Presentations are limited to 30 minutes ; which implies 20 minutes for the proper talks + 10 minutes for the discussion.

• Powerpoint presentations are allowed and recommended, but transparents are allowed.

• Presentations can be sent to Etienne Roesch or brought on the very day of the workshop.

• Be aware that speakers will be asked to leave a copy of their material at the end of the workshop for the purpose of compiling the proceedings of the workshop.

Also, your presentations are NOT to focus on the final systems per se, but should cover:

• what was the original problem definition and how did it relate to the state of the art?

• which contributions to developing a solution were considered [theory, technologies, etc.]? Out of these,

• which were discarded and which were adopted, and for what reasons?

• which adjustments had to be made to the original problem definition because of characteristics (positive and limiting) of these available means to implement your system?

• which aspects of the original problem definition do you consider to have been solved in a satisfactory way?

• which issues remained and/or appeared (due to additional insight gained during development and deployment) with the completed system?

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation organization is left at the discretion of participants.

Here is a list of suggested hostels within walking distance of the conference site (approx. prices include breakfast):
You will be given the indicated prices if you mention that you have been addressed by the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Geneva.

Single: SFr 140.-- p/n / Double: SFr 180.-- p/n
12, Rue de Carouge
1205 Genève
Tel.: +41 22 322 23 24
Fax: +41 22 322 23 23
web:http://www.hotel-comedie.ch/

From the airport (approx. 30 minutes):
Take bus number 10, direction "Onex-Cité" ; stop at "Stand" ; take tramway number 13, direction "Palettes" ; stop at "Plain Palais" ; walk <5 minutes ; you are arrived.

Single: SFr.98.-- p/n / Double: Sfr.140.-- p/n
7, avenue Ste Clotilde
1205 Genève
Tel.: +41 22 328 30 55
Fax: +41 22 321 60 10

From the airport (approx. 30 minutes):
Take bus number 10, direction "Onex-Cité" ; stop at "Jonction" ; then walk 5 minutes ; you are arrived.

Single: Sfr. 90.-- p/n / Double: Sfr. 110.-- p/n
16, Rue des Voisins
1205 Genève
Tel.: +41 22 807 05 00
Fax: +41 22 807 05 29

From the airport (approx. 40 minutes):
Take bus number 10, direction "Onex-Cité" ; stop at "Stand" ; take tramway number 13, direction "Palettes" ; stop at "Pont d'Arve" ; walk <5 minutes ; you are arrived.

Single: SFr. 102.-- p/n / Double: SFr. 132.-- p/n
5, rue Dancet
1205 Genève
Tel.: +41 22 329 11 11
Fax : +41 22 781 59 33
email: hotelcarmen.gasser@bluewin.ch

From the airport (approx. 40 minutes):
Take bus number 10, direction "Onex-Cité" ; stop at "Stand" ; take tramway number 13, direction "Palettes" ; stop at "Pont d'Arve" ; walk <5 minutes ; you are arrived.

Single: SFr. 44.-- p/n / Shared bathrooms on every floor, no breakfast, Sfr. 52.-- for non student
46, avenue Miremont
1206 Genève
Tel.: +41 22 839 22 22
Fax: +41 22 839 22 23
web: http://www.unige.ch/cite-uni/

From the airport (approx. 45 minutes):
Take bus number 10, direction "Onex-Cité" ; stop at "Bel-Air" ; take bus number 3, direction "Crêts-de-Champel" ; stop at "Crêts-de-Champel" ; you are arrived.

From the Cité Universitaire to the conference site (approx. 20 minutes):
Take bus number 3, direction "Champs-d'Anier" ; then either stop at "Claparède" and take bus number 1, direction "Jardin Botanique", stop at "Uni-Mail" ; you are arrived ; or stop at "Place Neuve" and walk <5 minutes East to Uni-Mail.

Psychology Faculty: http://www.unige.ch/fapse/
Université de Genève: http://www.unige.ch/ — uni_ville.html, Psych. bldg. is building number 1)

Itinary from/to/within Geneva + maps:
http://www.mappy.com/
http://fr.cars.yahoo.com/cartes/viamichelin.html

TPG - Transports Publics Genevois (Geneva Public Transportations): http://www.tpg.ch/ (includes an itinary planner)

http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/

We are looking forward to having you all in Geneva !