Day 1 (30 August 2010)
9.00 – 9.30 - Registration and breakfast
9.30 – 9.45 - Welcome and introduction
9.45 – 10.45 - Affect and social signals recognition
Automatic recognition of affect in dimensional and continuous spaces: Why, what and how? – Hatice Gunes (Imperial College, London, UK)
10.45 – 11.15 - Coffee break
11.15 – 12.15 - Affective and social behaviour synthesis for robots and virtual agents
Affect and social behaviour in agents – Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS/TELECOM ParisTech, France)
12.15 – 13.15 - One minute madness
Short presentations of participants research
13.15 – 15.00 – Lunch and Poster session
15.00 – 15.30 – Coffee break
15.30 – 17.30 – Practical session
Labs and demos
Catherine Pelachaud (practical session on talking heads using Greta) [Appleton Tower, PPLS Lab, AT3.02]
Hatice Gunes and Michel Valstar (visual components of an emotionally sensitive ECA system) [Informatics Forum, G07]
18.00 – 19.30 – Welcome reception
Mini-forum 2, Informatics Forum. Take the lift to the 4th floor, and turn right.
Day 2 (31 August 2010)
9.00 – 9.30 – Breakfast
9.30am-10.30 – Affect and social signals recognition
Affect recognition from body movement and posture – Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (University College London, UK)
10.30 – 11.00 – Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Affective and social behaviour synthesis for robots and virtual agents
Expressive speech synthesis – Simon King (University of Edinburgh, UK)
12.00 – 14.00 – Lunch + Poster session
14.00 – 15.00 Keynote talk
Jonathan Gratch (University of Southern California, USA)
15.00 – 15.30 – Coffee break
15.30 – 17.30 – Practical activities
15.00 – 15.30 – Coffee break
15.30 – 17.30 – Practical activities
Labs and demos:
Simon King (hands-on practical exercises using the Festival speech synthesis system) [Appleton Tower, PPLS Lab, AT3.02]
Nadia Berthouze (practical session on protocol design and analysis of motion capture data) [Appleton Tower, Informatics Lab, AT4.12]
19.00 – workshop dinner
Dinner at A Room in the Town, 18 Howe Street. (About 20 minutes walk from the Forum. Head North.)
Day 3 (1 September 2010)
9.00 – 9.30 – Breakfast
9.30 – 10.30 – Closing the loop: models and applications
Emotions as social signals – Ursula Hess (University of Quebec at Montreal)
10.30 – 11.00 – Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 – Closing the loop: models and applications
Closing the affective loop: applications of affective computing with virtual agents and robots – Ana Paiva (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal)
12.00 – 13.30pm
Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 – Practical activities
Labs and demos
Ana Paiva (Closing the affective loop: applications of affective computing with virtual agents and robots) [Appleton Tower, PPLS Lab, AT3.02]
Ursula Hess (Recognition of emotional and morphological traits that convey various social signals) [Appleton Tower, Informatics Lab, AT4.12]
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