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Lecturer position at the University of Winchester
by Daniel Gill 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hi all, A lecturer position is available at the University of Winchester in Hampshire, UK. Location: Winchester Salary: £35,845 to £40,322 per annum (Grade 7) Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed On: 20th October 2020 Closes: 16th November 2020 Job Ref: HSS-Y32 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCD275/lecturer-in-psychology Best wishes, Daniel ___________________________________ Dr. Daniel Gill BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA Senior Lecturer Department of Psychology The University of Winchester Winchester UK SO22 4NR Phone (office): +44 (0)1962 675144 e-mail Daniel.Gill(a)winchester.ac.uk<https://staffmail.winchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=uX2kmrDSSzRql5o2fDmHP7s…> [https://www.winchester.ac.uk/media/content-assets/corporate-imagery/Email-s…] Our privacy policy is here<https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/privacy-and…>. University of Winchester, a private charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 5969256. Registered Office: Sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4NR

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FW: SOCIAL AI CDT Online Tutorial - IVA 2020 Conference - Sat 24th October
by Peter Hancock 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

From: SOCIAL CDT <social-cdt(a)glasgow.ac.uk> Sent: 20 October 2020 11:48 To: face-research-list Mailing List <face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk> Subject: SOCIAL AI CDT Online Tutorial - IVA 2020 Conference - Sat 24th October View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/be2f7bcb5973/social-ai-cdt_summer_2020_apply-8223790?e=e…> [https://mcusercontent.com/9bf82ed08dbead3c2d1fb89b8/images/3c1ab3b5-2cf4-44…]<https://socialcdt.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9bf82ed08dbead3c2d1fb8…> SOCIAL AI CDT Tutorial 20TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS (IVA), University of Glasgow UKRI SOCIAL AI CDT online tutorial on modelling perceptual, cognitive and nonverbal behaviour in embodied artificial social agents. 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Special attention will be paid to the interdisciplinary aspects of the field, including integration of psychological findings into the development of artificial agents and use of computational methodologies in the study of human behaviour. Furthermore, the tutorial will provide examples of applications ranging across the automatic analysis of personality traits, automatic generation of behaviour and the development of embodied agents for health interventions. This tutorial is being conducted by the University of Glasgow’s UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents. The event is free to attend via the registration link above to Eventbrite<https://socialcdt.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9bf82ed08dbead3c2d1fb8…>. 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face database needed
by Ferenc Kocsor 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear All, I'm looking for facial images of white men with neutral expression between 18 and 60 years. I already have a set from the Chicago Face Database, but I would need additional 200-250 images in similar quality. It is important that there should be no mask around the face, and the whole face should be visible (from chin to the top of the hair). Coloured pictures are preferred. They will be used in a go-nogo task in our lab, later possibly in an online experiment as well. CFD faces will be the "go" trials, these are already selected and rated, so the quality of the "no-go" stimuli really needs to be similar to the selected set. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Ferenc Kocsor, PhD research associate Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Hungary

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Request for data: Verbal descriptions and identification data
by Alicia Nortje 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear all, I am working with Professor Colin Tredoux to analyse verbal or written descriptions of perpetrators / faces and statements; unfortunately, we do not have enough diversity in the descriptions that we have collected so far. Specifically, our sample sizes are comparatively small compared to studies that have used MTurk, and when we have found other researchers’ data on OSF (e.g., the Alogna et al replication of the VOE study), our dataset is overwhelming tinted with descriptions of the ‘same’ perpetrator (i.e., the moustached bank robber in the original video used of Schooler). For these reasons, we are reaching out to other researchers for help. We often collect witness statements in our experiments as part of our laboratory procedure (encode – recall – recognise), but we do not normally analyse these statement data. We are hoping that other researchers follow a similar procedure and have description/statement data available. We’d like to ask if you would be willing to share your data where you have collected descriptions of the perpetrator/s or statements of the coding event, and also have corresponding lineup identification data. The data does not need to be processed – we can process it on our side and recode the variables (and I can send this back to you). To do this, we just need to know stimuli characteristics (e.g., tp/ta, position of suspect/target, confidence scale, lineup choice made etc). Please let me know if you are able to assist us. Apologies again for the random e-mail, but any assistance would be much assisted. Thanks again! Hope to hear from you. Kind regards, Alicia Nortje and Colin Tredoux -- *Alicia Nortje, PhD* *Postdoctoral Research Fellow,PhD (Applied Psychology; Psychology and Law)**Eyewitness Laboratory, * *Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team (ACSENT) laboratory, * *Department of Psychology, * *University of Cape TownSkype: lichza*

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8th Face Science Symposium 2020
by Alicia Nortje 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Dear all, *This is a friendly reminder about the 8th Face Science Symposium that will take place on Tuesday, 17 November 2020 at 08h30, to start at 09h00 and to end at 13h00.* The Face Science Symposium is a joint research and support initiative between the Eyewitness Research Group (UCT, Department of Psychology), the South African Police Service, and Facial Identification Researchers and Practitioners. The initiative was formed in 2014, and we have held a conference every year since. *The format is different this year because the symposium will be hosted online.* We aim to have between 5 and 7 speakers, depending on the number of keynote speakers. All presentations will be 20 minutes long, with 5-10 minutes for questions/discussion. *There is no cost involved; therefore, it is free to attend or to present.* *To register for the conference, as a delegate or a speaker, please go here:https://forms.gle/XFKMpw8ZUK91MjV79 <https://forms.gle/XFKMpw8ZUK91MjV79>* *Registration as a delegate closes on 12 November.The deadline for abstract submissions is 30 October.* We want to ensure *a range of topics*, therefore submission of an abstract is not a guarantee that you will be presenting. Therefore, we will confirm with you (between 30 October and 5 November) if your abstract submission was successful. Registration as a delegate is immediately successful. Previous topics include police interviewing techniques, eyewitness memory for multiple perpetrator crimes, interviewing witnesses, reconstruction of faces from skulls), drawing techniques for faces, different tools for constructing composites, and person recognition from CCTV footage. *Please share this e-mail far and wide.* We are not limited by physical borders this year, so we can accommodate international delegates and attendees. Our original intention for this collaboration was to foster discussion and research between researchers and practitioners who are interested in questions and issues about faces. Therefore, as always, we would like a mix of presentations, ranging from academic topics (from different departments), in-field experience/case studies/cases, and practical presentations. Please do not RSVP to me personally; instead, RSVP through the link above. If you have questions or issues, then you are welcome to e-mail me. Thanks in advance, and looking forward to spending the day with you at the virtual symposium. Kind regards, Alicia Nortje -- *Alicia Nortje, PhD* *Postdoctoral Research Fellow,PhD (Applied Psychology; Psychology and Law)**Eyewitness Laboratory, * *Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team (ACSENT) laboratory, * *Department of Psychology, * *University of Cape TownSkype: lichza*

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IVA 2020 Call for Participation
by Rachael Jack 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Dear colleagues See below for the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2020 program October 20-22th including this year’s special topic: Exploring connections between computer science, robotics, and psychology. All welcome! See registrations links below. Sharing widely much appreciated. Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [https://mcusercontent.com/b50a71cb719c1a4fecb313822/images/a7f52241-575b-44…] Call for Participation ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Online Conference, October 20th-22nd 2020 https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/ --------------------------------------------- 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents --------------------------------------------- SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC: Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology. Register now for the Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference! https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/registration/ *** In light of Covid-19, this year the IVA 2020 conference will be delivered online via Virtual Chair and GatherTown. Our goal is to ensure the spontaneous interactions that invigorate physical conferences while realizing low attendance costs. Please see https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/attendees/ for more details *** IVA is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) – interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVA 2020 will showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, including basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning, as well as work on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications. IVA 2020’s Special Topic was an invitation to researchers and developers across the disciplines of computer science, robotics, psychology and the commercial world to share their work on the challenges and uses of social agent research, in the hope to further trans-disciplinary collaboration. The invited talks this year will include a social roboticist, a neuroscientist and an artist panel: - Professor Jodi Forlizzi: “HRI and HAI: Merging Perspectives from Two Fields” - Professor Lars Muckli: “Emotions and other contextual signals in early visual cortex and the computational role for AI” - Behnaz Farahi, Ph.D.: “Emotive Matter: Affective Computing from Fashion to Architecture” - Güvenç Özel: “Persuasion Machines: Networked Architectures in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism” See https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/program/invited-speakers/ <https://iva2020.psy.gla.ac.uk/program/invited-speakers/%20> for more details. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: * Stacy Marsella, University of Glasgow * Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow Program Chairs: * Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University * Pedro Sequeira, SRI International * Emily Cross, University of Glasgow * Contact: iva20(a)easychair.org<mailto:iva20@easychair.org> Workshop/Demonstration Organization Chairs: * Lucile Callebert, University of Glasgow * Florian Pecune, University of Glasgow * Contact: workshopsdemos.iva2020(a)gmail.com<mailto:workshopsdemos.iva2020@gmail.com> Web Site * Amol Deshmukh, University of Glasgow Doctoral Consortium Volunteer Coordinator: * Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow This email was sent to rachael.jack(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk> why did I get this?<x-msg://12/*|ABOUT_LIST|*> unsubscribe from this list<x-msg://12/*|UNSUB|*> update subscription preferences<x-msg://12/*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> *|LIST:ADDRESSLINE|* Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087

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Call for Abstracts - Workshop on Affective Shared Perception (WASP) - ICDL-EPIROB 2020
by Pablo Vinicius Alves De Barros 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Call For Abstracts - Workshop on Affective Shared Perception (WASP) Dear all, We are delighted to invite you to submit an abstract, and to participate in our Workshop on Affective Shared Perception (WASP), hosted by the International Conference on Developmental Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB2020). Please find below all the information! Cheers, Pablo I. Aim and Scope Our perception of the world, in particular, the ones which are influenced by affective understanding, depends both on sensory perception and prior knowledge. Most of the current research on modeling affective behavior as computer models ground their contribution to pre-trained learning models, which are purely data-driven, or on reproducing existing human behavior. Such approaches allow for easily reproducible solutions that fail when applied to complex social scenarios. Understanding shared perception as part of the affective processing mechanisms will allow us to tackle this problem and to provide the next step towards a real-world affective computing system. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss new findings, theories, systems, and trends in computational models of affective shared perception. The workshop will feature a multidisciplinary list of invited speakers with experience in different aspects of social interaction, which will allow a rich and diverse debate about our overarching theme of affective shared perception. The workshop is scheduled to happen on the 30th of October of 2020 virtually. It will start at 15h00 CET and it will have a total duration of 3h30min. The participation is free, and a Zoom room will be available shortly before the workshop starts. II. Registration The registration to the workshop is free, but to guarantee a place to attend the workshop, please register here: shorturl.at/ciCQX III. Potential Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: - Affective perception and learning - Affective modulation and decision making - Developmental perspectives of shared perception - Machine learning for shared perception - Bio-inspired approaches for affective shared perception - Affective processing for embodied and cognitive robots - Multisensory modeling for conflict resolution in shared perception - New psychological findings on shared perception - Assistive aspects and applications of shared affective perception IV. Invited Speakers Prof. Dr. Ginevra Castellano - Uppsala University, Sweeden Prof. Dr. Ellen Souza - Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil Prof. Dr. Yukie Nagai - The University of Tokyo, Japan V. Submission Prospective participants in the workshop are invited to submit a contribution as an abstract with a maximum of 350 words. Submission information: https://www.whisperproject.eu/wasp2020 The abstracts will be peer-reviewed by experts from all over the world. To encourage the integration with the local affective computing communities, we will allow student abstracts to be submitted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Each accepted abstract will be presented as a 5 min video (in English!) that will be shared on the workshop's social media. During the workshop, all the videos will be streamed and the authors will have a joint live Q/A with the audience for 60minutes. Participants can also opt-in for participating in our Frontiers Research Topic on Affective Shared Perception ( https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16086/affective-shared-percepti…) The same abstract sent to the workshop can be sent as an abstract submission to the research topic. If you want to opt-in for the research topic, only English submissions will be accepted. - Abstract submission deadline: 12th of October - Notification of acceptance: 17th of October - Frontiers Research Topic Abstract Deadline: 24th of October - Video submission: 24th of October VI. Organizers Pablo Vinicius Alves De Barros, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy ---------------------------------------- Dr. Pablo Barros Postdoctoral Researcher - CONTACT Unit Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Center for Human Technologies Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy email: pablo.alvesdebarros(a)iit.it website: https://www.pablobarros.net<http://www.pablobarros.net><https://www.p> twitter: @PBarros_br

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PhD / postdoc positions in cognitive computational neuroscience lab, Giessen University
by Katharina Dobs 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

PhD and Postdoc position in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany The newly established research group for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Katharina Dobs at Justus-Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany, is recruiting a PhD student and a Postdoc starting from October 1st, 2020 or later. Our lab is based at the Psychology Department at JLU and works in the field of cognitive computational neuroscience at the intersection of human cognitive science, human neuroscience and computational modeling. We are particularly interested in visual neuroscience and potential projects include human behavioral (e.g., psychophysics, large-scale crowdsourcing) and neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI, EEG) experiments and computational modeling (e.g., CNNs). For more information on the lab’s research, please visit katharinadobs.com <http://katharinadobs.com/> or see also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycpoi-GX2Y&t <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycpoi-GX2Y&t>. Our lab and the psychology department at JLU (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de <http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/>) have excellent links to scientists within Europe and worldwide and offer a stimulating, multi-national and interdisciplinary research environment. The student / postdoc will be integrated in a thriving research community under the umbrella of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior with strong regional, national and international connections, including numerous collaborative research endeavors (e.g., SFB on Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception, IRTG 1901 The Brain in Action). Giessen is a university town, located in the center of Germany around 60km north of Frankfurt. We encourage applicants to apply who - are highly motivated to do research on human visual neuroscience and computational modeling - are familiar with at least one of the methods we use (see above) - have experience in programming (e.g., Python, Matlab) and strong quantitative skills - have completed or are close to completing a master’s degree in psychology, computer science, neuroscience or a related field - enjoy working independently as well as in a team The PhD position is funded for at least 3 years, with a salary corresponding to 65% of payment group E13 according to the collective agreement of the State of Hesse (TV-H). The postdoc position depends on a successful fellowship application (e.g., DFG, Humboldt Foundation) and international students are particularly encouraged to apply. To apply, please email your CV, a brief statement of research interests, and the names of up to three references to Katharina Dobs (katharina.dobs(a)gmail.com <mailto:katharina.dobs@gmail.com>). -- Katharina Dobs www.katharinadobs.com <http://www.katharinadobs.com/> katharina.dobs(a)gmail.com <mailto:katharina.dobs@gmail.com>

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BPS Cognitive Section online meeting
by Peter Hancock 09 Jul '20

09 Jul '20

The annual BPS Cognitive Section meeting will be held online this year at the end of August (27th-28th). I'd welcome submissions on face research, either 15+5 minute talks or posters. Submission at https://bpscog2020.stir.ac.uk/ by the end of July. Also, please note that due to increasing amounts of spam, I've had to disable posts from non-members of the list. If you've submitted something and not seen it, check that you are emailing from the address you signed up with. Peter Peter Hancock Professor Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11587 @pjbhancock Psychology at Stirling 100% 4* Impact, REF 2014 [Sports University of the Year 2020] My messages may arrive outside of the working day but this does not imply any expectation that you should reply outside of your normal working hours. If you wish to respond, please do so when convenient. ________________________________ The University achieved an overall 5 stars in the QS World University Rankings 2020 UK Sports University of the Year 2020 (Times Higher Good University Guide) The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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[IJCB 2020]: Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020) - Call for Participants
by ABHIJIT DAS 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - SSBC 2020 ******************************************************** Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020) Held in conjunction with IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2020https://ieee-biometrics.org/ijcb2020/Program.html#acom Important dates: Registration is already open SSBC Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home ******************************************************** We invite research groups working on ocular biometrics, segmentation problems or other related vision tasks to take part in the 2020 Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020). Sclera biometrics have gained significant popularity among emerging ocular traits in the last few years. In order to establish the sclera as a viable biometric trait and to evaluate its potential for automated biometric systems, several works have been presented in the literature, using the sclera vasculature as a standalone biometric trait and in combination with the iris. Despite these initiatives, sclera biometrics need to be studied more extensively to ascertain their usefulness. Among the numerous challenges still open in this area, efficient and robust sclera segmentation is among the most important ones, affecting all downstream tasks, ranging from normalization to recognition. While a considerable amount of research has been directed towards sclera segmentation in recent years, the performance of existing techniques especially in cross-sensor scenarios and across different acquisition conditions is still not well explored. To investigate these issues, to document recent developments and to attract (and raise) the interest of researchers in this emerging biometric trait, we are organzing SSBC 2020 - a competition (and group benchmarking effort) held in conjunction with IJCB 2020 focusing on the problem of sclera segmentation. The competition builds on past sclera segmentation competitions, namely SSBC 2015, SSRBC 2016, SSERBC 2017, SSBC 2018 and SSBC 2019 held in conjunction with BTAS 2015, ICB 2016, IJCB 2017, ICB 2018 and ICB 2019 respectively. SSBC 2020 is the next in the series of sclera segmentation challenges and aims to benchmark sclera segmentation models in both cross sensor settings as well as across different acquisition conditions. The competition is open to everyone. Registartion is already open. For details see: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home *** SUMMARY PAPER *** All participating researchers (achieving competitive performance) will be invited as co-authors for a summary paper of SSBC 2020 that will send for consideration at IJCB 2020. *** ORGANIZERS *** Dr. Abhijit Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Prof. Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Prof. Peter Peer, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija Assoc. Prof. Vitomir Štruc , University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija Matej Vitek , PhD candidate, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija

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