February 2020 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Job Opportunity at Psychology, University of Glasgow
by Psychology-Admin 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

[Macintosh HD:ExtraCurric:Departmental:Admin:Logos:InsNeuroPsy_colour.eps] [cid:image010.jpg@01D5DCD9.58CEA7D0][A close up of a logo Description automatically generated][A picture containing person Description automatically generated] Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate in Computing the Face Syntax of Social Communication Grade 6/7 Dr. Rachael Jack is delighted to announce the opening of a 3-year ERC-funded postdoctoral researcher position on the project Computing the Face Syntax of Social Communication at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology and School of Psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The Project. This ambitious project aims to mathematically model the human face as an algebraic generator of dynamic social signals and build a psychologically and culturally valid generative model of social face signalling that is transferrable to social robots. The project will use a multidisciplinary approach that combines social and cultural psychology with dynamic 3D structural face computer graphics, vision science psychophysical methods, and mathematical psychology. Given that project involves interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, the ideal candidate would have experience of both computational (e.g., programming) and social psychology, for example via a joint degree or research experience/interests. Research Environment. The successful applicant will experience a unique and intellectually stimulating research environment within the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, undertake a specific programme of specialist research skill development, and contribute to progressing an internationally competitive and strategic research agenda. The applicant will have access to (1) a unique, state-of-the-art 4D structural face imaging technology and dynamic face movement generator; (2) specialist in-house training on advanced quantitative methods and statistical analyses (e.g., 4D image processing, model fitting); (3) postdoctoral communities; (4) a dedicated full-time Research Technologist specializing in 3D and 4D computer graphics; (5) a dedicated full-time computing support team who provide data storage (>5 Petabytes), high-security data management systems, high-performance equipment and software; (6) a secure on online Subject Pool (7,000+ members, 106 nationalities); (7) international collaborators; and (8) a full suite of brain imaging facilities including 7T fMRI, MEG, EEG, and TMS. The Team Primary Investigator: Dr. Rachael E. Jack http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psychology/staff/rachaeljack/ The successful applicant will join an internationally renowned, high performance interdisciplinary research team and receive regular, close mentorship and collegial interaction from PI Jack and other lab members via lab meetings. The successful applicant will develop and apply state-of-the-art specialist skills and knowledge of social face perception and face signalling including 3D & 4D face capture and generation, advanced MATLAB programming, lab testing booth preparation, high volume data collection, mathematically modelling 3D dynamic face signals, analyzing high-dimensional data, scientific writing, and producing high-quality data visualizations for presentations and high-profile publications. The successful applicant will also have the opportunity to present at national and international academic conferences, participate in public engagement activities, and submit their work to high-impact and specialist peer reviewed academic journals. Successful applications may also have the opportunity to work with other interested parties (e.g., social robotics designers). Affiliate labs. The Jack lab regularly interacts with and has joint lab meetings with the following labs: Prof. Stacy Marsella https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/staff/stacy… Prof. Philippe G. Schyns http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/staff/philip… Start date: May 2020 (negotiable) Closing date: 20th February 2020 Reference number: 032999 Apply here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYD853/research-assistant-associate

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Tenurable positions at the University of Western Australia - Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
by Romina Palermo 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear all, We are currently advertising two positions with a closing date of 28th February. Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Clinical Neuropsychology: http://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/ci/en/job/503360/senior-lecturer-clinical-n… <http://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/ci/en/job/503360/senior-lecturer-clinical-n…> Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Cognitive Neuroscience: http://external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/503361/senior-lecturer-cognitive-… <http://external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/503361/senior-lecturer-cognitive-…> I would be happy to answer questions about these positions. Best wishes Romina -- Romina Palermo, PhD Associate Professor Co-Deputy Head School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia Person Perception Lab <https://sites.google.com/site/drrominapalermo/> UWA Research Repository <https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/romina-palermo> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i1MX3CkAAAAJ&hl=en> | Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Romina_Palermo> | ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8678-4592> | @DrMeenie <https://twitter.com/DrMeenie> @PersonPercept <https://twitter.com/PersonPercept> Editor: British Journal of Psychology <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20448295> Associate Editor: Australian Psychologist <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17429544> I acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners and spiritual and cultural custodians of the land where UWA sits. > <https://www.web.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/uwa-…> > <https://www.web.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/camp…> <http://www.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/facebook> <http://www.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/twitter> <http://www.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/youtube> <http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/linke…> <http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/university-campaigns-resources/emailsig2015/insta…> > CRICOS Code: 00126G <>

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ICMI 2020: 2nd Call for Long and Short Papers
by Leimin Tian 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

*************************************** ICMI 2020: 2nd Call for Long and Short Papers http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands *************************************** Call for Long and Short Papers The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. ICMI 2020 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2020 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library. We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria used during ICMI 2020 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted papers at ICMI 2020 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery. - Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper. - Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach. Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors for detailed submission instructions. This year’s conference theme: In this information age, technological innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art, culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing? As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and Society. Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Affective computing and interaction - Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction - Gesture, touch and haptics - Healthcare, assistive technologies - Human communication dynamics - Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction - Interaction with smart environment - Machine learning for multimodal interaction - Mobile multimodal systems - Multimodal behavior generation - Multimodal datasets and validation - Multimodal dialogue modeling - Multimodal fusion and representation - Multimodal interactive applications - Speech behaviors in social interaction - System components and multimodal platforms - Visual behaviours in social interaction - Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction Important Dates *Paper Submission: May 4, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7)* Reviews to authors: July 3, 2020 Rebuttal due: July 10, 2020 (11:59pm GMT-7) Paper notification: July 20, 2020 Camera ready paper: August 17, 2020 Presenting at main conference: October 25-29, 2020

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ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops
by Leimin Tian 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

*********************************************************************************** ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfW *********************************************************************************** The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2020 conference is Art, Culture, and Society. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include: - Media Analytics for Societal Trends - Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing - Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction - Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology - Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data - Human-Habitat for Health - Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents - Child Computer Interaction - Multimodal Interaction for Education We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Yukiko Nakano (y.nakano(a)st.seikei.ac.jp) and Albert Ali Salah ( a.a.salah(a)uu.nl) The proposal should include the following: - Workshop title - List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies - Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact - Tentative list of keynote speakers - Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program - Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation - Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) - Paper submission and acceptance deadlines - Special space and equipment requests, if any Important Dates: *Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 10, 2020* Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 24, 2020 Workshop papers due: End of July, 2020 (suggested) Workshop dates: October 25 or 29, 2020

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