sspw 2010 - Second International Workshop on Social Signal Processing

Second International Workshop on Social Signal Processing
October 29, 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-AT-dcs.gla.ac.uk) prior to submission.

Important Dates (tentative)
Paper submission: June 10, 2010
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-AT-imperial.ac.uk

Alessandro Vinciarelli
University of Glasgow / Idiap Research Institute
Email: vincia-AT-dcs.gla.ac.uk

Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: pentland-AT-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