AISB 2009 Symposium on Affective Bodily Expression

AISB 2009 Symposium on Affective Bodily Expression

6-7 April 2009, Edinburgh

The body is a highly expressive medium of communication, and one that is expressive on a number of different levels, for example, posture, gesture and style of movement, including shape, timing and amplitude

It is involved in most of the major affective expressions including: emotions, social cues, relational cues and complex mental states. The complex interactions between these many different forms of expressions, as well as the non-expressive elements of movement (walking, performing tasks) makes it a fascinating area of study.

The recent development of affective computing as an independent field, as well as the increasing reliability of motion capture and other vision-based movement tracking methods, has created a great interest in the computational study of expressive body movement. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers from different disciplines with the aim of sharing knowledge on, discussing and creating a better understanding of the role and power of body movement as an affective communication modality and how such body expression should be modeled to enable technology to exploits such communication channel.

Paper Submission

For the symposium we invite two types of papers:

* Research Paper of up to 8 pages, that aim to present new research and work in progress.

* Position papers of 2-4 pages that aim to present a topic for discussion in the conference. The oral presentation will be shorter than research papers to allow time for a longer discussion.

All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme committee.

Papers should be formatted in the ECAI format as described on the AISB download page (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb09/downloads.php). Please email papers for submission to both co- chairs by the 19th December '08.

Important Dates

19 Dec 2008: paper submission

2 Feb 2009: notification

TBC: camera-ready copy

TBC: author registration

6-7 April 2009: workshop date.

Co-Chairs

Nadia Berthouze

n.berthouze@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Interaction Centre

University College London

Malet Place

London WC1E 6BT

Marco Gillies

m.gillies@gold.ac.uk

Department of Computing

Goldsmiths College London

New Cross

London SE14 6NW

International Programme Committee

Kim Bard: (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Daniel Bernhardt (University of Cambridge, UK)

Antonio Camurri (University of Genova, Italy)

Ginevra Castellano (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Mark Coulson (University of Middlesex, UK)

Beatrice De Gelder (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Martin Giese (University Clinic Tuebingen, Germany, University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Florian Mueller (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Frank Pollick (University of Glasgow, UK)

Metin Sezgin (University of Cambridge, UK)

Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC Research, UK)