Workshop on Intelligent technologies, affective computing and interaction

Framework. As is mentioned in the Information Society Technologies website, the purpose of this strategic objective is ‘to develop natural and easy to use interfaces that communicate intelligently via several modalities or with multilingual capabilities’. Several research and development concepts fit in this description, ranging from analysis, fusion and synthesis of low- and higher-level information from different sources, multi-cue emotion recognition and cognition to synthesis of affective visual, auditory and haptic feedback, recording, retrieval and playback of personal experiences and ubiquitous, unintrusive human-computer interaction. In this framework, related R&D faces a number of previously unforeseen issues, such as privacy and personal and sensitive data protection.

Purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers and industries in the fields of data capture, analysis and fusion, intelligent systems and cognition and interactive applications, such as interactive installations, embodied conversational agents (ECAs) and mixed reality, as well as EU representatives, in order to present current results and issues from on-going IST projects and discuss the vision and strategic objectives of the next EU Framework Program.

Workshop chairs:

• Prof. Stefanos Kollias, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens (ICCS/NTUA), WP and Applications area leader of the Humaine Network of Excellence
• Prof. Antonio Camurri, DIST-University of Genoa, Italy, Scientific director of the InfoMus Lab, Coordinator of the MEGA IST Project (Multisensory Expressive Gesture Applications)