Program of the workshop - September 3th 2012
0830-0930:
Introduction
Talk1: Merlin Teodosia Suarez, Center for Empathic Human Computer Interactions,
De La Salle
University, Manila, Philippines.
“Dressed-up or Stripped-down: Emotion Analysis in Anticipatory, Assistive & Empathic Ambient Intelligent Spaces”
0930-0950:
Alexandra
Balahur and Jesus M. Hermida.
“Affect
Detection from Social Contexts using Commonsense Knowledge Representations”
0950-1010:
Syaheerah
Lebai Lutfi, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Andrés Casanova-García, Juan Manuel
Montero and Lorena Lopez-Lebon.
“Assessing User
Bias in Affect Detection within Context-based Spoken Dialog Systems”
1010-1030:
Francesca
Bonin, Ronald Böck and Nick Campbell.
“How do we
react to context? Annotation of individual and group engagement in a video
corpus”
10:30
- 10:45
- Coffee break
11-12:
Key Note Speaker: Ursula Hess, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
“The Face as Context in Emotion Recognition”
Main research interests:
My
research program is centered on the communication of emotions. In
particular, I focus on the social factors that influence this process
such as gender and intergroup relations. One line of research
investigates the influence of facial appearance on the perception of
emotions in men and women as well as individuals of different age. The
underlying hypothesis of this research is that the level of dominance
and affiliation signaled by facial appearance interacts with facial
movement in a way that can enhance or attenuate in particular
expressions of anger and happiness. Another line of research on social
context influences focuses on emotion communication as a function of the
ingroup versus outgroup status of the interaction partner. Two
questions have been of interest to me in this context. First, are
individuals differentially motivated to understand the emotions of
outgroup versus ingroup members? and second, is emotional mimicry
influenced by the ingroup versus outground status of the observed other?
This line of research also included research on cross-cultural emotion
communication. More recently, I have started a research program on
emotion communication at the workplace. In particular I have been
interested in employees' regulation of emotion expressions on order to
conform to organizational display and feeling rules and the consequences
for their wellbeing and satisfaction at work. In my research I
generally privilege psychophysiological measures but also frequently
employ behavioral and paper and pencil approaches.
1. Workshop Description
The past 20 years has witnessed an increasing number of efforts for automatic recognition of human affect using facial, vocal, body as well as physiological signals. Several research areas could benefit from such systems: interactive teaching systems, which allow teachers to be aware of student stress and inattention; accident prevention, such as driver fatigue detection; medical tools for automatic diagnosis and monitoring such as the diagnosis of cognitive disorder (e.g. depression, anxiety and autism) and pain assessment. However, despite the significant amount of research on automatic affect recognition, the current state of the art has not yet achieved the long-term objective of robust affect recognition, particularly context based affect analysis and interpretation. Indeed, 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. The context tells us which expressions are more likely to occur and thus can bias the classifier toward the most likely/relevant classes. 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.
2. Workshop Objectives
Context related affect analysis is still an unexplored area for automatic affect recognition given the difficulty of modeling this variable and of its introduction in the classification process. Unconsciously, humans evaluate situations based on environment and social parameters when recognizing emotions in social interactions. Contextual information helps us interpret and respond to social interactions.
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.
The workshop is relevant in the study of naturalistic social interactions since contextual information cannot be discounted in doing automatic analysis of human behavior. Embedding contextual information, such as culture, provides a different flavor to each interaction, and makes for an interesting scientific study. Such kinds of analysis lead us to consider real-world parameters and complexities in affect recognition, especially in developing human-centric systems.
For the workshop we invite scientists working in related areas of affective computing, ambient computing, machine learning, psychology and cognitive behavior to share their expertise and achievements in the emerging field of automatic and context based affect analysis and recognition.
3. Workshop Topics
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
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· Context source detection.
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· Context interpretation and analysis.
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· Context based affect production
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· Context based facial affect recognition
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· Context based vocal affect recognition
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· Context based gesture affect recognition
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· Context based multimodal fusion.
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· Applications (Context related affect applications).
4. Invited Speakers
Main research interests:
My research program is centered on the communication of emotions. In particular, I focus on the social factors that influence this process such as gender and intergroup relations. One line of research investigates the influence of facial appearance on the perception of emotions in men and women as well as individuals of different age. The underlying hypothesis of this research is that the level of dominance and affiliation signaled by facial appearance interacts with facial movement in a way that can enhance or attenuate in particular expressions of anger and happiness. Another line of research on social context influences focuses on emotion communication as a function of the ingroup versus outgroup status of the interaction partner. Two questions have been of interest to me in this context. First, are individuals differentially motivated to understand the emotions of outgroup versus ingroup members? and second, is emotional mimicry influenced by the ingroup versus outground status of the observed other? This line of research also included research on cross-cultural emotion communication. More recently, I have started a research program on emotion communication at the workplace. In particular I have been interested in employees' regulation of emotion expressions on order to conform to organizational display and feeling rules and the consequences for their wellbeing and satisfaction at work. In my research I generally privilege psychophysiological measures but also frequently employ behavioral and paper and pencil approaches.
5. Submission Policy
The submitted manuscripts should not be submitted to another conference or workshop. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, novelty, and technical quality.
At least one author of each paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper.
The papers of the workshops will be included in the proceedings of the main conference SocialCom12 (in a separate volume).
Submission must be in PDF format, in accordance with the IEEE conference paper style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and should not exceed 6 pages.
We welcome regular, position and applications papers.
The papers have to be submitted at the following link (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbar2012).
6. Deadlines
Submission Deadline:
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July 9, 2012
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Notification of Acceptance:
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July 17, 2012
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Camera Ready:
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July 20, 2012
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Workshop Date:
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September 3,2012.
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The exact date of the workshop will be communicated as soon as available on the workshop website.
This will be a half-day workshop.
This will be a half-day workshop.
Note: All days end Eastern Standard Time.
7. Key Organizers
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.ri.cmu.edu/)
USA.
Merlin Teodosia Suarez (merlin.suarez@delasalle.ph)
De La Salle University. 2401 Taft Ave., Manila, Philippines (http://cehci.dlsu.edu.ph)
Center for Empathic Human-Computer
De La Salle University.
8. Advisory Board
Dirk Heylen, (d.k.j.heylen@utwente.nl)
University of Twente, Human Media Interaction
POBox 217, 7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Jeffrey Cohn, (jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu)
University of Pittsburgh 4327
Sennott Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
Roddy Cowie, (r.cowie@qub.ac.uk)
School of Psychology
Queen's
University
Belfast, BT7 1NN
UK
9. Program Committee
Arvid Kappas, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Anna Esposito, Second University of Naples, Italy
Carlos Busso, UT-Dallas, USA
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jeremy Cooperstock, McGill University, Canada
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France
Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Genevra Castellano, University of Birmingham, UK
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena, Italy
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Peter Robinson, Cambridge University, UK
Lionel Prevost, University of French West Indies and Guyana
Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Elliot Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK
Fernando De la Torre, CMU, USA
Louis-Philippe Morency, USC, USA
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK
YingLi Tian, City University of New York, USA
Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA
Sponsor
The workshop is sponsored by HUMAINE Association (http://emotion-research.net/)
Sponsor
The workshop is sponsored by HUMAINE Association (http://emotion-research.net/)
