October 29, 2010
The deadline has been extended to June 17th, 2010
Mission
The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social Intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life. A widely accepted prediction is that next-generation computing needs to include the essence of social intelligence – the ability to recognize and generate social signals and social behaviours – in order to become more effective and more efficient. Due to this vision of the future, automated analysis and synthesis of social signals and social behaviours, including social interactions (like turn taking and backchanelling), social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles, have attracted increasing attention.
Machine analysis of human social interactions and social signals is progressing rapidly with new or pending applications in HCI, psychology, biomedicine, politics, and entertainment technology, among other fields. With these advances come new conceptual and methodological challenges. The workshop aims at presenting cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic analysis and synthesis of human social interactions and signalling in an interdisciplinary forum of computer and behavioral scientists.
We seek to attract contributions representing the state-of-the-art efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human social communication, decode communicative intent, and generate the appropriate socially-adept responses. The workshop will also bring together a number of Keynote Speakers and Penalists who are the leading experts on machine analysis of human behavior in naturalistic contexts including Jeffrey Cohn (University of Pittsburg/ Carnegie Mellon University), Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA), Justine Cassell (Northwestern University), Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University), and Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland).
Relevant topics for the workshop include but are by no means limited to:
- Social psychology and social signals processing
- Facial behaviour analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Expressive speech analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Human gesture and action recognition and synthesis in social interactions
- Multimodal human behavior analysis and synthesis in social interactions
- Perceptual, multimodal, and socially-aware user interfaces
- Socially-adept Embodied Conversational Agents
- Databases for training and testing
- Socially-aware computing and applications
Papers should describe high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to social signal processing and machine analysis and synthesis of naturally occurring human social behavior. All areas of human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered subject to the constraint that the submission makes an important contribution to the field of social signal processing. In general, papers that solely describe a signal processing, multimedia analysis or pattern recognition approach with potential applications to social signal processing should be submitted to the ACM Multimedia general conference. Note that although applications of known multimedia analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition techniques are welcome, we will give priority to those works that also make theoretical contributions to these fields and the field of social signal processing.
Survey papers are welcome and encouraged. Authors interested in submitting a survey article may want to contact the Workshop co-organizer (vincia@dcs.gla.ac.uk) prior to submission.
Important Dates (tentative)
- Paper submission: June 17, 2010 (extended)
- Notification to authors: July 10, 2010
- Camera ready papers: July 20, 2010
- Workshop: October 29, 2010
Paper Submission
- Workshop papers must be formatted following the style guidelines of ACMMM’10 regular papers.
- They are allowed to be 6 pages long.
- Submission through the EDAS system
Workshop organizers
Maja Pantic
Imperial College London, Computing Dept. / University of Twente, EEMCS
Email: m.pantic@imperial.ac.uk
Alessandro Vinciarelli
University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute
Email: vincia@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: pentland@mit.edu
Program Committee (tentative)
- Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
- Lada Adamic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA
- Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, UK
- Justine Cassell, Northwestern University, USA
- Jeff Cohn, CMU, USA
- Roddy Cowie, Queens University Belfast, UK
- Trevor Darrell, ICSI-Berkeley, USA
- Beat Fasel, University of Basel, CH
- Dilek Hakkani Tur, ICSI-Berkeley, USA
- Alan Hanjalic, Technical University Delft, NL
- Emile Hendriks, Technical University Delft, NL
- Ramesh Jain, University of California Irvine, USA
- Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- David Lazer, Harvard University, USA
- Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA
- Marc Mehu, University of Geneva, CH
- Louis Philippe Morency, USC, USA
- Vittorio Murino, IIT/University of Verona, Italy
- Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
- Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France
- Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento, Italy
- Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Fabio Valente, Idiap Research Insitute, CH
- Ming-Hsuan Yang, University of California, Mercedes, USA
- Lijun Yin, Binghamton University, USA
