Workshops / Symposia

First International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR2012)


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It is well known that affect production is accordingly displayed in a particular context, such as the undergoing task, the other people involved, the identity and natural expressiveness of the individual. Without context, even humans may misunderstand the observed facial expression. By tackling the issues of context based affect recognition, i.e. careful study of contextual information and its relevance in domain-specific applications, its representation, and its effect on the performance of existing affect recognition methods, we make a step towards real-world, real-time affect recognition. The purpose of the workshop is to explore the benefits and drawbacks of integrating context on affect production, interpretation and recognition. We wish to investigate what methodologies can be applied to include contextual information in emotion corpora, how it ought to be represented, what contextual information are relevant (i.e. is it domain specific or not?), and how it will improve the performance of existing frameworks for affect recognition. We invite scientists working in related areas of affective computing, ambient computing, machine learning, psychology and cognitive behaviour to share their expertise and achievements in the emerging field of automatic and context based affect analysis and recognition.

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SoHuman 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Social Media for Human Computation


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This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying social media to designing human computation systems and applications. Human computation integrates humans as distributed task-solvers into computational systems enabling the solution of complex tasks that are easy to solve for humans but difficult for pure computation. By emphasizing practical challenges and experiences from different application domains (e.g. multimedia search, enterprise, medicine, cultural heritage, open science), the workshop will stimulate the discussion on best-practices in this quickly growing field.

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Exploring Stances in Interactions: Conceptual and Practical Issues in Social Signal Processing Research


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Stances are multimodal and can be seen as expressions of attitudes, feelings, judgments, or evaluations. The ability to understand stances during interactions is an important aspect of human social intelligence. The recognition of a user's stances during human-computer interaction will enable an embodied conversational agent (ECA) to identify how the user's message is to be perceived and understood, and consequently, how the interaction can be adapted to this interpretation. The synthesis of an ECA's stances improves the interaction in terms of, for example, the ECA's believability and the atmosphere of the interaction. Hence, this workshop concentrates on studies of multimodal expressions of stances in both human-human and human-machine interaction, and on the automatic processing of stances. We aim to bring together researchers from various disciplines (e.g., phonetics, linguistics, psychology, computer science) to foster multidisciplinary discussions on stances in interaction.

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International Workshop on Wide Spectrum Social Signal Processing - WS3P 2012


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A large part of users of Social Computing and Social Signal Processing technology have special needs owing to their special mental conditions such as Autism Spectral Condition or physical limitations. At the same time, Social Computing offers great potential in particular for these users: Many target groups show high affinity to technical systems and practically all of these can be assumed to benefit from social networks and social and affective technical solutions tailored to their needs. As a consequence, there has been a growing interest within the computing community in becoming more engaged in social sciences and more particularly in psychopathologies such as Autism. The WS3P 2012 workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners in the field of Social Computing, Social Signal Processing, Social Robotics and Psychopathology. Joint research across these communities will have a major impact on methodologies, problems and issues related to users with development or abilities on a wide spectrum.

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Third Workshop on Security and Privacy in Social Networks


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The workshop aims to bring to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mechanisms designed and deployed in existing online social networking services, we need to create a common language between the researchers and practitioners of this new area, spanning from the theory of computational social sciences to conventional security and network engineering.

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