SSPNET

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 [...] [...]

The June 2010 issue of the SSPNet newsletter is online:
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In this issue:

Antonio Camurri tells about a new project on Social Interaction and Entrainment
SSPNet supports the Third IEEE CVPR4BH Workshop
An introduction of an SSPNet-researcher

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Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) makes available three scholarships at the “Doctoral School in Brain and Cognitive Sciences – COBRAS”  of the University of Trento, in the “Language, Interaction and Computation Programme”. The grants and their topics are as follows:

n. 1 grant for the topic “Multiple-user interfaces”, financed by the Fondazione Bruno Kessler;
n. 1 grant for [...] [...]

Full information at the following address:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/conference/affine2010/
A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, and human-centered multimedia interfaces is the ability to infer the affective and mental states of humans and provide appropriate, timely output during sustained social interactions. Examples include ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the interaction or providing suitable empathic responses [...] [...]