September 26, 2010 09:00 to September 30, 2010 09:00
Call for Papers
Interspeech 2010 Special Session on Social Signals in Speech
26 – 30 September 2010 in Makuhari, Japan
The expressive functions of vocal behavior have been widely investigated and described in the literature. However, most of this research was limited to the investigation of affective states with the prototypical such as anger, disgust, happiness, or the emotional dimensions of arousal and valence, receiving most of the focus. Other expressive dimensions, related to the signaling of social cues in interaction, have received far less attention. Among these expressive dimensions we consider signals of politeness or rudeness, familiarity, (dis-)agreement, rapport, dominance, etcetera, and also of social emotions including being angry at the interlocutor, love and liking, jealousy or flirting, etcetera. Unraveling the relation between vocal and social conversational phenomena is relevant for the understanding and automatic analysis of human social signals. As future applications, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) and spoken dialogue systems can be developed which will be able to behave more human-like and will be able to recognize and display social interactional behavior. This special session aims to create a better understanding of how vocal behavior can be used to signal social cues in interaction. We intend to discuss state-of-the-art research on the relation between vocal behavior and social interaction, and we aim to raise discussions about fundamental issues and future challenges in this emerging domain of Social Signal Processing (SSP).
We invite researchers to contribute to this special session on Social Signals in Speech, a multidisciplinary subject that lies on the interface of speech science, linguistics, social science, signal processing and technology. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
The (automatic) analysis of social interaction, such as
- Group-interaction dynamics
- (Dis)-agreement
- Politeness
- Social status
- Dominance
- Empathy
- Rapport
- Friendliness
- Flirting
- Likeability/attractiveness
- (Social) attitude
- Interactional synchrony
- Alignment
- Social mimicry
- Engagement
- Subjectivity
- Speaker role
in relation to vocal behavior, such as
- Prosody
- Non-lexical vocalizations (e.g., laughter, crying)
- Backchannels
- Floor interaction
- Turn-taking patterns
- Pauses and silences
- Interruptions
- Speech rhythm
- Voice quality
Submission procedure
Papers (4 pages) for the Special Session on Social Signals in Speech will undergo the regular conference submission and review procedure. Please refer to the main conference website of Interspeech 2010 for full details:
Upon submission, the Special Session on Social Signals in Speech will be available for selection. Presentation format will (most likely) be oral.
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2010
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 2 July 2010
- Conference dates: 26-30 September 2010
Websites
- Main conference Interspeech 2010: http://www.interspeech2010.org
- Special Session on Social Signals in Speech: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~truongkp/is2010sssss.html
- Social Signal Processing: http://sspnet.eu/
- Human Media Interaction, University of Twente: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/
Session organisers
Khiet Truong and Dirk Heylen
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
