ECAG 2011 - 2nd FG Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG'11)

Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG '11)

Workshop themes

Expressivity in the human body and face can serve to control or adapt the interaction with a system. Examples are Xbox Kinect that uses body movements to control game characters, gesture interaction with a robot in a home environment, or adapting teaching strategy in a tutoring application based on detected frustration or boredom. In these examples, observations of the face and body are used in different forms, depending on whether the user has the initiative to control the interaction or whether the application takes the initiative to adapt itself to the user. Hence, we look at:
Control: The user consciously produces facial expressions, head movements or body gestures to control a game. This includes commands that allow navigation in the game environment or that allow movements of game characters or changes in their appearances (e.g. showing similar facial expressions on the character's face, transforming body gestures to emotion-related or to emotion-guided activities).

Adaptation: The gamer's spontaneous facial expressions and body poses are interpreted and used to adapt the game to the supposed affective state of the gamer. This adaptation can affect the appearance of the game environment, the interaction modalities, the experience and engagement, the narrative and the strategy that is followed by the game or the game actors.

Paper submission

We are soliciting papers that discuss research into this area, with a focus on applications. We consider the domain of entertainment, robot control, and (serious) gaming and simulation. In addition to video-based observation, we also consider other means of input, including multi-modal approaches. Technical papers, as well as survey papers and empirical papers are eligible. Authors are invited to submit papers, with the page limits and formatting guidelines of the main conference (see www.fg2011.org). Papers will be refereed by three reviewers. Submissions will be handled through the ECAG'11 conference management system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECAG2011/.

All FG Workshop papers will be archived by IEEE Xplore. They will also be included in the DVD conference proceedings.

Important dates

Paper submission: December 14, 2010
Author notification: January 12, 2011
Camera-ready due: January 19, 2011
FG conference: March 21-25, 2011
Workshop: March 21 or 25 (TBD), 2011

Workshop organizers

Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Ronald Poppe (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

Programme committee

Vasilis Argyriou (Kingston University, UK)
Nadia Berthouze (University College London, UK)
Rob Blaauboer (Logica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Tony Brooks (Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark)
David England (John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
Yun Fu (University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA)
Mitsuru Ishizuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ben Kröse (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Christopher Peters (Coventry University, UK)
Mannes Poel (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Gang Qian (Arizona State University, USA)
Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad ((University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Dennis Reidsma (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Ben Schouten (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)
Marten den Uyl (Vicarvision, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College, London, UK)
Huang Zhiyong (I2R, Singapore)
Others to be confirmed

Contact

For questions about the workshop, please contact the organizers at ecag2011-AT-ewi.utwente.nl.