EmoSPACE 2011 - EmoSPACE 2011 - 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis,representation, and Analysis in Continuous spaces

1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spaces (EmoSPACE) In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011 Santa Barbara, 24 March, 2011

1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE (EmoSPACE)
In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011
Santa Barbara, 24./25. March, 2011

Call for Papers

Human affective behaviour is multimodal, continuous and complex. Despite major advances within the affective computing research field, modelling, analysing, interpreting and responding to human affective behaviour still remains as a challenge for automated systems as emotions are complex constructs, with fuzzy boundaries and with substantial individual variations in expression and experience. Therefore, affective and behavioural computing researchers have recently invested increased effort in exploring how to best model, analyse and interpret the subtlety, complexity and continuity of affective behaviour in terms of latent dimensions and appraisals, rather than in terms of a small number of discrete emotion categories.

The key aim of this workshop is to present cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic, dimensional and continuous analysis and synthesis of human emotional behaviour in an interdisciplinary forum of affective and behavioural scientists. More specifically, the workshop aims (i) to bring forth existing efforts and major accomplishments in modelling, analysis and synthesis of emotional expressions in dimensional and continuous spaces, (ii) while encouraging the design of novel applications in context as diverse as human-computer and human-robot interaction, clinical and biomedical studies, learning and driving environments, and entertainment technology, and (iii) to focus on open issues and new challenges in the field. The workshop will also bring together two Keynote Speakers who are leading experts in modelling and analysis of naturalistic emotions in dimensional and continuous spaces.

Suggested workshop topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Modalities and cues for dimensional emotion recognition
facial expressions
head movements and gestures
body postures and gestures
audio (e.g., speech, non-linguistic vocalisations, etc.)
bio signals (e.g., heart, brain, thermal signals, etc.)
Automatic analysis and prediction
approaches for discretised and continuous prediction of emotions
identifying appropriate classification and prediction methods
introducing or identifying optimal strategies for fusion
techniques for modelling high inter-subject variation
approaches to determining duration of emotions for automatic analysis
Data acquisition and annotation
elicitation of emotions
individual variations (interpersonal and cognitive issues)
(multimodal) naturalistic data sets annotated in dimensional spaces
(multimodal) annotation tools for dimensional emotions
modelling annotations from multiple raters and their reliability
Applications
interaction with robots, virtual agents, and games (including tutoring)
single and multi-user smart environments (e.g., in a car)
implicit (multimedia) tagging
clinical and biomedical studies (e.g., autism, depression, pain etc.)

Workshop Organisers:
Hatice Gunes, Imperial College London, UK, h.gunes-AT-imperial.ac.uk
Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schuller-AT-tum.de
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK, m.pantic-AT-imperial.ac.uk
Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast, UK, R.Cowie-AT-qub.ac.uk

Program Committee:

Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany
Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK
Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis, USA
Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, USA
Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France
Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK
YingLi Tian, City University of New York, USA
Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 14 December 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2011
Camera Ready Paper: 19 January 2011
Workshop: 24 or 25 March 2011 (t.b.a.)