[Face-research-list] Webpage

Sarah Bate sbate at bournemouth.ac.uk
Wed Mar 2 11:03:31 GMT 2011 

Dear all,

Just a quick message to introduce myself and let you know about the website we are already in the process of developing.  I am currently a lecturer at Bournemouth University (UK), and moved here a year ago after I completed my PhD and post-doc at the University of Exeter.  I am particularly interested in developmental prosopagnosia in both adults and children, and my current work is focusing on increasing our understanding of the disorder and how this increased understanding can help the development of intervention strategies.

Myself and a group of other face researchers have been putting together an application for funding for a general face-processing conference that will be followed-up with a series of workshops that focus on specific areas of face research, e.g. clinical aspects, eye-witness testimony, computerised face recognition, etc.  We have given this the working title 'Facenet' (any better suggestions would be gratefully received...), and are currently in the process of developing a website that aims to have a similar function to that suggested by a few people on this list.

Many thanks to Elinor and Christian for their suggestions, and it would be great to hear any further suggestions for keywords or other ideas that would help the website.

I'll keep you all posted on progress.

Best wishes,

Sarah

-----Original Message-----
From: face-research-list-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk [mailto:face-research-list-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christian Wallraven
Sent: 02 March 2011 10:18
To: face-research-list Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Face-research-list] Webpage

Even better if someone's already working on it :)

I like Elinor's keyword categories and think that this would be very helpful. In terms of the webpage, it would perhaps be nice to have - in addition to the networking functionality - some moderated extra pages that compile lists of useful links, review papers and books, teaching resources, etc. that could be accessed easily from the main page...

Cheers,
Christian

On 02.03.2011, at 19:05, Peter Hancock wrote:

> Excellent, volunteers are always good.  Now we have two, because I was contacted last night by Sarah Bate, who is apparently already developing a networking site, called, reasonably enough, 'Facenet'.  She's got some local funding to establish it, so it probably makes sense to go with that; feel free to post suggestions about what would be useful and I'll leave it to Sarah to see what's feasible and announce when it's ready.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: face-research-list-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk [mailto:face-research-list-bounces at lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Elinor McKone
> Sent: 02 March 2011 09:37
> To: face-research-list Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Face-research-list] Webpage
>
> Wow, Christian, that is a wonderful offer!
>
> Re searchability, I think it would be good to have key words to
> describe each person's research under headings. For example, this
> might be:
>
> 1. Methods: (choose one or more of)
>               Behavioural
>               fMRI
>               ERP
>               Other brain imaging (eg. DTI)
>               Single cell
>               Computational modelling
>               Others: specify
>
> 2. Populations: (choose one or more of)
>               Human adults -- typical
>               Human children -- typical
>               Aging / Elderly
>               Prosopagnosia -- acquired
>               Prosopagnosia -- developmental;
>               Autism Spectrum Disorder
>               Other disorders where face processing is affected
>               Monkeys
>               Animals other than primates
>               Others: specify
>
> 3. Theoretical topics: (choose one or more of)
>               Identity
>               Expression
>               Gaze
>               Holistic processing / configural processing
>               Face-space
>               ...etc, etc, etc !!
>
> If people think this general approach would be a good idea, they might
> care to expand the lists above (which are just based on what I came up
> with in 10 mins).
>
> The general aim would be that, for example, if one wants to find
> colleagues or potential collaborators who do behavioural work on gaze
> processing in monkeys, or expression recognition in Autism, then
> keyword searching would be a useful tool for doing this.
>
> Best,
> Elinor
>
> On 02/03/2011, at 5:57 PM, Christian Wallraven wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> first off, thanks to Peter for getting things going - I think this
>> list is a great idea!
>>
>> Also, I like the webpage suggestion and would be more than happy to
>> create and host it. We can make a public and a private version of
>> the page, so that contact details are only available to list
>> subscribers. As for the content, I would envision a collection of
>> links (e.g., labs, databases) as well as the member profiles. The
>> profiles should be searchable and sortable and possibly might
>> contain affiliation, bio, research interests, and key bibliography.
>> Of course, the final format is up to the list to decide :) - I am
>> happy to help set up this resource...
>>
>> As for my background, I graduated from the Max Planck Institute for
>> Biological Cybernetics working on computer vision & face recognition
>> under the supervision of Heinrich Bülthoff. Together with my
>> colleague Christoph Dahl, I also did a few studies comparing macaque
>> and human face perception recently, which might be of interest to
>> some on the list. My current interests lie in perception of facial
>> expressions, comparing human and computer face recognition
>> performance, as well as multi-sensory face recognition.
>>
>> Best regards from Korea and hoping for a lively list
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christian Wallraven
>> Cognitive Systems Lab
>> Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Engineering
>> Korea University
>> email: wallraven at korea.ac.kr
>> web: cogsys.korea.ac.kr
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Engineering
Korea University
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