EMOSPACE 2011 - EmoSPACE 2011 - 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis,representation, and Analysis in Continuous spaces

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Deadline: December 14, 2010 | Date: March 24, 2011

Venue/Country: California, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-12-01 10:06:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE (EmoSPACE)

In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011

Santa Barbara, 24./25. March, 2011

Call for Papers

Human affective behaviour is multimodal, continuous and complex. Despite major advances within the affective computing research field, modelling, analysing, interpreting and responding to human affective behaviour still remains as a challenge for automated systems as emotions are complex constructs, with fuzzy boundaries and with substantial individual variations in expression and experience. Therefore, affective and behavioural computing researchers have recently invested increased effort in exploring how to best model, analyse and interpret the subtlety, complexity and continuity of affective behaviour in terms of latent dimensions and appraisals, rather than in terms of a small number of discrete emotion categories.

The key aim of this workshop is to present cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic, dimensional and continuous analysis and synthesis of human emotional behaviour in an interdisciplinary forum of affective and behavioural scientists. More specifically, the workshop aims (i) to bring forth existing efforts and major accomplishments in modelling, analysis and synthesis of emotional expressions in dimensional and continuous spaces, (ii) while encouraging the design of novel applications in context as diverse as human-computer and human-robot interaction, clinical and biomedical studies, learning and driving environments, and entertainment technology, and (iii) to focus on open issues and new challenges in the field. The workshop will also bring together two Keynote Speakers who are leading experts in modelling and analysis of naturalistic emotions in dimensional and continuous spaces.

Suggested workshop topics include, but are by no means limited to:

Modalities and cues for dimensional emotion recognition

facial expressions

head movements and gestures

body postures and gestures

audio (e.g., speech, non-linguistic vocalisations, etc.)

bio signals (e.g., heart, brain, thermal signals, etc.)

Automatic analysis and prediction

approaches for discretised and continuous prediction of emotions

identifying appropriate classification and prediction methods

introducing or identifying optimal strategies for fusion

techniques for modelling high inter-subject variation

approaches to determining duration of emotions for automatic analysis

Data acquisition and annotation

elicitation of emotions

individual variations (interpersonal and cognitive issues)

(multimodal) naturalistic data sets annotated in dimensional spaces

(multimodal) annotation tools for dimensional emotions

modelling annotations from multiple raters and their reliability

Applications

interaction with robots, virtual agents, and games (including tutoring)

single and multi-user smart environments (e.g., in a car)

implicit (multimedia) tagging

clinical and biomedical studies (e.g., autism, depression, pain etc.)

Workshop Organisers:

Hatice Gunes, Imperial College London, UK, h.gunesimperial.ac.uk

Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schullertum.de

Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK, m.panticimperial.ac.uk

Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast, UK, R.Cowiequb.ac.uk

Program Committee:

Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany

Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK

Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy

Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis, USA

Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, USA

Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada

Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA

Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA

Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France

Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK

YingLi Tian, City University of New York, USA

Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 14 December 2010

Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2011

Camera Ready Paper: 19 January 2011

Workshop: 24 or 25 March 2011 (t.b.a.)