March 22, 2010 20:00 to March 26, 2010 21:00
THEME: SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING, 22-26 March 2010
Organized by NIRICT (3TU Federation: University of Twente, Technical University
Delft, Technical University Eindhoven) in cooperation with the Dutch SIKS Research
School and the EU Network of Excellence SSPNet on Social Signal Processing.
Website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/lenteschool2010
Steering Committee
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente
Catholijn Jonker, Technical University of Delft
Cees Midden, Technical University of Eindhoven
Course Directors
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente
Betsy van Dijk, University of Twente
Emile Hendriks, Technical University of Delft
SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING: INTRODUCTION In the week of March 22nd till 26th
the three Dutch technical universities (Eindhoven, Twente and Delft) in cooperation
with the Dutch SIKS PhD Research School organize a Springschool “Social Interaction
Computing”. This school is organized for PhDs and Master students who study or work
in the fields of ‘Human Technology Interaction’ and ‘Human Media Interaction’.
This is the second NIRICT-SIKS School on human-computer interaction. The first school
presented a broad multidisciplinary view of how fundamental insights into human physical
and cognitive capabilities can be used to design human-centred technologies that can
collaborate symbiotically with humans to enhance human capabilities. The focus of
this second School is on all aspects of social and affective interfaces.
SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING: PROGRAM
The program of this Springschool consists of lectures and hands-on-assignments on
designing and evaluating intelligent user interfaces and a special PhD training
program. The school offers courses in which different approaches and methods for
interface design are put into practice.
Conversational interfaces (dialogue systems, conversational agents, or human-robot
interaction) form a special type of interaction that will be considered in depth
as one of the case studies during this one-week school, with a focus on social
signal processing and affective computing. This involves overviews and in-depth
lectures combined with hands-on practice in areas such as data-collection and
observation; sensing, social-signal processing, and machine learning; interface
and experience design; models of affect and personality; synthesis of verbal and
nonverbal behaviours.
Using this and other case studies, students will learn more about crucial aspects
of and methodologies for designing user interfaces such as user-profiling, ethnography
and interviewing, lo-fi and hi-fi prototyping, usability testing and user experience
evaluation.
For the PhD training and consultancy program, round tables will be organized where
students can discuss issues relevant to their research and their career and can get
advice from senior researchers.
SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING: LECTURERS
Courses will be mainly given by professors of the three Dutch technical universities.
The lecturers have extensive background in human-computer interaction and have been
chosen because of their interest in advanced interaction technologies including multimodal
interaction, user interface design, brain-computer interfacing, computer vision, gesture
interfaces, computer vision, animation techniques and machine learning. In addition
to these lectures there will be two or three invited talks by well-known HCI specialists
who will present surveys of the research areas. The language spoken is English.
SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING: VENUE
The school will be held in the Best Western Hotel Ehzerwold in Almen (near Zutphen),
The Netherlands: http://www.ehzerwold.nl/hotel/
SOCIAL INTERACTION COMPUTING: COSTS & REGISTRATION
The early registration fees (before March 1) are:
PhD Students: € 600 (however, see below for SIKS PhD students)
Others € 800
Late registration fees are: early registration fees + € 100
Registration includes full boarding in Hotel Ehzerwold during the period of the Spring
School. More detailed information about program and registration will be made available
on the website of this Springschool: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/lenteschool2010
INFORMATION FOR SIKS PhD STUDENTS
As a result of the cooperation between SIKS and NIRICT, a number of SIKS-PhD-students
can participate in the NIRICT-SIKS Springschool without paying fee. Participating in
this course is a part of the Advanced Components stage of SIKS’ educational program.
However, the number of places available is limited. SIKS has reserved a number of
places, primarily intended for those PhD-students working in the field of Human Computer
Interaction.
Other SIKS-PhD-students are not excluded, however if the number of applicants exceeds the
number of places available, the students working on HCI come first.
SIKS-Ph.D.-students interested in taking the course, should NOT contact the local organization,
but register at office@siks.nl, inform Mrs. Corine Jolles that they want to participate
and confirm in the mail that their supervisor supports the participation! Students will
receive a notification whether they can participate as soon as possible
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