Cognitive Processing (Springer Verlag)
Scope
Social Signals attract increasingly more attention in the computing community. They are the signals that people exchange in social events, from two friends’ small-talk to huge crowds during a rock concert, from parking quarrels to political debates; they convey relevant social information, thus importantly influencing social relations and social interaction, and they are the core of social intelligence.
Yet, despite some first promising accomplishments in creating automatic devices endowed with social intelligence, the very notion of Social Signals has not been defined from a theoretical point of view, the field’s borders still remain blurred, and a clear perspective is still lacking about the possible applications of socially intelligent devices as well as their ethical aspects.
A clear vision about these issues necessarily requires the cooperation of Computer Scientists with Social Scientists; this makes Social Signal Processing a privileged field for multidisciplinary investigation, whereby contributions from different domains can be integrated with each other, from Social Psychology to Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Semiotics, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis, Psychology of Communication, and the fields of Multimodality, Signal processing, Human Behaviour Analysis and Synthesis, Computer-Human Interaction, Embodied Conversational Agents.
This Special Issue is aimed at:
- defining the general notion of Social Signals
- analysing specific types of signals – for example, signals of agreement and disagreement, dominance and submission, competition and cooperation, feedback, etc.
- presenting recent advances in the recognition, processing, interpretation, analysis and synthesis of Social Signals in Recognition Systems and Virtual Agents
- validating present applications of research on Social Signal Processing and exploring new ones
- discussing ethical issues linked to the application of Social Signal Processing
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- social signal models
- social signal processing
- analysis and synthesis of multimodal human behaviour
- social signals in animal behaviour
- signals in dyadic and group interaction
- social signals and intercultural communication
- signals in social influence and persuasion
- analysis and synthesis of facial expression
- gesture and action automatic recognition
- speech analysis and synthesis
- prosody and voice quality
- applications of social signal processing
- Human Computer Interaction
- ethical issues
Guest Editors:
- Isabella Poggi, Università Roma Tre
- Francesca D’Errico, Università Roma Tre
- Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute
Instructions for Authors:
Papers must be 12-15 pages long
Formatting and submission instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/10339
Authors are encouraged to send to poggi@uniroma3.it and fderrico@uniroma3.it a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: November 30th , 2010
- Notification of acceptance: January 31st, 2011
- Camera-ready version: March 31st, 2011
