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[CFP] 8th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge
by abhinav dhall 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

Call for Challenge participation Eight Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Challenge https://sites.google.com/view/emotiw2020 @ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2020, Utretch, Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Emotion Recognition in the Wild 2020 Challenge consists of multimodal classification challenges, which mimics real-world conditions. Traditionally, affect recognition has been performed on laboratory controlled data. While undoubtedly worthwhile at the time, such lab controlled data poorly represents the environment and conditions faced in real-world situations. With the increase in the number of video clips online, it is worthwhile to explore the performance of affect recognition methods that work ‘in the wild’. Challenge sub-challenges: 1. Audio-video based Group Emotion Recognition 2. Driver Gaze Prediction 3. Engagement prediction in the Wild 4. Physiological Signal based Emotion Recognition Timeline: Train and validate data available - 7th March 2020 Test data available - 1st June 2020 Paper submission deadline - July 2020 Paper notification - July 2020 Organisers: Abhinav Dhall, Monash University and IIT Ropar Roland Goecke, University of Canberra Tom Gedeon, Australian National University Data Chairs: Garima Sharma, Monash University Yang Liu, Australian National University Contact: emotiw2014(a)gmail.com

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Postdoctoral Position & Lab Manager Position, Duchaine lab at Dartmouth
by Brad Duchaine 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello, My lab is searching for a postdoctoral fellow who will work on an exciting four-year project investigating the cognitive and neural basis of developmental prosopagnosia. Please see ad below. We're also looking for a lab manager/research assistant to work on the project. The lab manager position will require strong programming skills and an interest in perception, neuroscience, and neuropsychology. If you're interested in the lab manager position, please email me. Thanks, Brad The Social Perception Lab in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College is searching for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow. We encourage applications from creative scientists who are eager to develop an independent research program involving psychophysics, neuroimaging, and neuropsychology. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to play a key role in a four-year NIH-funded project investigating the cognitive and neural basis of developmental prosopagnosia (DP). The project will examine the extent and nature of cognitive and neural anomalies in DP using behavioral tests and a rich set of neuroimaging data involving of selectivity measures, functional connectivity, population receptive field estimates, and diffusion tensor imaging. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the PI (Brad Duchaine) and the Co-I (Caroline Robertson), and both are committed to the training and career development of the fellow. The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences has a concentration of laboratories working in two research areas that are highly relevant to this project – high-level vision and space perception/navigation. Moore Hall houses a research-dedicated scanner, and because of the department’s emphasis on neuroimaging, excellent support and resources are available for imaging work. For more information about the Social Perception Lab, please visit: https://lab.faceblind.org/ and https://www.faceblind.org/ Dartmouth College is an Ivy League university located in picturesque Hanover, NH that has graduate programs in the sciences, engineering, medicine, and business. The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is a premier psychology and neuroscience department, with 26 faculty members studying topics that range from place cell codes to social norms. The ideal candidate for the position will have experience with both perceptual research and neuroimaging as well as an interest in neuropsychology, but we encourage enquires from candidates with other backgrounds. To apply, please send a cover letter outlining your research interests and qualifications, a CV, and contact information for two references to bradley.c.duchaine(a)dartmouth.edu

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Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief, JARMAC
by Executive Director - SARMAC 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition The Governing Board of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) is pleased to invite nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-research-in-memory-and… <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-applied-research-in-memory-and…>) The Governing Board is seeking nominations from distinguished scholars in any area of applied memory and cognition to lead the Journal for a 5-year term beginning January 1, 2021. Nominees should preferably have a record of managing a scholarly journal process as an Associate Editor or Editor, possess effective communication skills, demonstrate the ability to work effectively with authors (particularly junior faculty and graduate students), and employ a team-based approach to collaborating with Associate Editors and the SARMAC Publications Committee. Preference will be given to candidates who support and encourage improved research and methodological practices. Self-nominations will be accepted. SARMAC is an international society and the Governing Board encourages nominations from members of underrepresented groups. Nominees should submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, the names of three referees who may be contacted by the Selection Committee, and a 2-page vision statement that addresses the preferred criteria noted above. Nomination packets should be submitted by email to the SARMAC Executive Director, Dr. Kim Wade (executivedirector(a)sarmac.org <mailto:executivedirector@sarmac.org>), no later than March 15, 2020. For further information see the Call for Nominations on our website (http://www.sarmac.org/call-for-nominations-editor-in-chief <http://www.sarmac.org/call-for-nominations-editor-in-chief>) or contact the Chair of SARMAC's Publication Committee, Chris Meissner at cameissn(a)iastate.edu <mailto:cameissn@iastate.edu> Best wishes, Kim Wade - Executive Director of SARMAC

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CFP: ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents @ U Glasgow, Scotland
by Rachael Jack 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the annual ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, hosted this year at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Please see below for further details. The submission portal is now open. Questions? Just ask! Best wishes, Dr. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Reader (Associate Professor) Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology School of Psychology University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 **************************************************************** Call for Submissions ACM 20th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents September 9-12th 2020 University of Glasgow, Scotland https://iva2020.gla.ac.uk/ iva20(a)easychair.org<mailto:iva20@easychair.org> **************************************************************** SUBMISSION DATES Open now until Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iva20 --------------------------------------------- 2020 Intelligent Virtual Agents --------------------------------------------- Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a specific focus on the ability to socially interact. *** IVA 2020 will be the 20th Annual Conference. It will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 9- 12th September 2020. *** IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities including communicating using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. IVAs are also capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social situations. IVA 2020 aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the design, application, and evaluation of IVAs, as well as the basic research underlying the technology that supports human-agent interaction such as social perception, dialog modeling, and social behavior planning. We also welcome submissions on central theoretical issues, uses of virtual agents in psychological research and showcases of working applications. IVA 2020 offers two submission tracks: Papers (8 pages, including references) and Extended Abstracts (3 pages, including references). All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings. Accepted full papers will be presented as a talk. Accepted extended abstracts will be presented as a talk or a poster, depending on the outcome of the review process. SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Agent design and modeling of: - Cognition - Emotion (including personality and cultural differences) - Socially communicative behavior (e.g., of emotions, personality traits) - Conversational behavior - Social perception - Machine learning approaches to agent modeling - Approaches to realizing adaptive behavior - Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology Multimodal interaction: - Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination - Face-to-face communication skills - Engagement - Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation - Multi-party interaction - Data driven multimodal modeling Social agent architectures: - Design criteria and design methodologies - Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction - Standards / measures to support interoperability - Portability and reuse - Specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains Evaluation methods and studies: - Evaluation methodologies and user studies - Ethical considerations and societal impact - Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents) - Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior Applications: - Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc. - Virtual agents in games and simulations - Social agents as tools in psychology - Migration between platforms SPECIAL IVA 2020 TOPIC: Exploring Connections between Computer Science, Robotics and Psychology. Across computer science, robotics, psychology and the commercial world, there has been a rapid growth in the research, development and application of artificial social agents. Computer scientists and roboticists are researching graphics-based and physical social agents. Psychologists and neuroscientists are using these artifacts in laboratory experiments in order to study our interaction with them as well as to use them as confederates in the study of human behavior. Companies are actively developing similar technologies. However, these communities too rarely interact even though there are close synergies between psychology, the study of human behavior, and artificial social agents, the engineering of human behavior. The design of an artificial social agent involves the formalization of theories and data about human behavior, integration of resulting models into an agent and evaluation of its behavior, leveraging techniques derived from psychology. Each of these steps can in return be of fundamental value to psychological research. For example, formalization and integration forces one to concretely specify theoretical constructs and thereby expose hidden assumptions and gaps in theories. IVA 2020’s Special Topic provides an invitation to researchers and developers across disciplines to share their work on the challenges and uses of social agent research, in the hope to further trans-disciplinary collaboration. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format. - The LaTeX template for the “ACM Standard”/”SigConf” format can be found inside the official 2017 ACM Master article template package. Please use the most recent version available at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-latex-authors - The “ACM Standard” Microsoft Word template is currently not part of the downloadable package as the ACM is currently revising it to improve accessibility of resulting PDF-documents. Please use the “Interim Word Template” instead as per the instructions in: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-word-authors IVA 2020 accepts two types of submissions: - Full papers: 8 pages (including references) - Extended abstracts: 3 pages (including references) All papers must be submitted in PDF-format. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) - Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2020 - Camera-ready submission: August 2, 2020 (23:59 UTC-12) 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 - Jonathan Gratch, ICT/USC Treasurer - Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS Publicity Chair - Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow Volunteer Coordinator: - Carolyn Saund, University of Glasgow

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Fully funded ESRC PhD studentship: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
by Melissa Colloff 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

Fully funded ESRC PhD studentship, School of Psychology University of Birmingham Determining how UK policing should construct identification parades: Using diagnostic-feature-detection theory to maximise eyewitness identification accuracy Dr Melissa Colloff<http://www.melissacolloff.com> is delighted to announce a fully funded collaborative ESRC PhD studentship with The National VIPER Bureau<http://www.viper.police.uk/>, (Dr Colloff<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/colloff-melissa.aspx> as primary supervisor, and Dr Heather Flowe <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/Heather-D.-Flowe.aspx> as secondary supervisor). The project is about lineup member similarity in police identification parades. The project will involve conducting cognitive/memory experiments on face similarity and modelling data, along with collecting and analysing real-world ID outcomes from police forces, and working closely with VIPER in West Yorkshire Police. The closing date is 6th March. More details here: Project: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/collaborativeandjoint/colloff_bi… Scheme/Application: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/collaborativeandjoint/ Funding: https://esrc.ukri.org/skills-and-careers/doctoral-training/prospective-stud… Eligibility: https://esrc.ukri.org/skills-and-careers/doctoral-training/prospective-stud… Informal enquiries about the research or the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham prior to application can be directed to Dr Melissa Colloff by email at M.Colloff(a)bham.ac.uk<mailto:M.Colloff@bham.ac.uk>. https://www.melissacolloff.com<https://www.melissacolloff.com/> | https://www.appliedmemorylab.co.uk<https://www.appliedmemorylab.co.uk/> [cid:6E788041-F7E8-4D46-B83D-3DA9F91AB03E]

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Postdoc position at U Glasgow - closing date 20 FEBRUARY 2020
by Rachael Jack 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Postdoctoral Research Assistant/Associate in Computing the Face Syntax of Social Communication 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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Job Opportunity at cSCAN, INP, University of Glasgow
by Psychology-Admin 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Full-time Permanent Faculty Positions: Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology (INP), University of Glasgow, Scotland The Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) is actively pursuing multiple research appointments at all levels (Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Reader/Associate Professor, Professor/Full Professor) to enrich our internationally connected research-intense environment and world-leading reputation in social perception, social cognition, social neuroscience, social interaction and communication, with an emerging leadership in behaviour change. cSCAN members operate in a research-rich capacity, with teaching-rich staff leading in the innovation and delivery of education. Research focus. cSCAN is a uniquely interdisciplinary research environment that brings together international researchers across a range of complementary disciplines including Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering who work together to address central questions in social, cognitive, and affective science. Interdisciplinary links. Our researchers have close links with centres and departments across the university, including: * Computing Sciences. Our interdisciplinary Glasgow Social Robotics group was recently awarded a UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents with funding for 50 PhD students over the next 8 years (https://socialcdt.org/) * Institute of Health and Well-Being. Many of our members work closely with top researchers in this world-leading interdisciplinary research centre focused on improving population health and reducing inequalities. Facilities and in-house expertise. A wide variety of state-of-the-art methods and technologies are available: * Full, on-site brain-imaging suite comprising 7T fMRI, 3T fMRI, MEG, EEG and TMS via the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) with expertise in combining technologies (e.g., fMRI+EEG, MEG+Eye tracking, EEG+TMS). Affiliate facilities include ECoG at The Glasgow Epilepsy Centre * A range of technologies used for studying human behavior as well as for the design of applications, including virtual reality environments and the cSCAN's own state of the art tools for creating virtual and robotic social agents, specifically for generating dialog, posture, gestures, facial actions and facial morphology. * Multiple technologies for capturing behaviour, including eye trackers, 3D facial morphology, motion capture systems and voice capture. Researchers also have the following dedicated research support facilities: * Online, secure Subject Pool (1000+ members, 16-80+ years, 100+ nationalities) * In-house computing support team providing 6+ Petabytes of storage, High Performance Computing (HPC, 5k cores, 5Tb RAM, 20+ GPU cards), high-security data management systems, advice, sourcing and installation of high-performance computing equipment and software development of on-line research facilities Links to cSCAN and Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/research/cs… http://cscan.gla.ac.uk https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/ Please contact cSCAN-vacancies(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:cSCAN-vacancies@glasgow.ac.uk> for further information It is the University of Glasgow's mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research, and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organization in promoting gender equity. The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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CFP - 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Valparaiso Chile
by Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

CALL FOR PAPERS: 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (This is the follow-up of the previous ICDL-EpiRob conference series) 7th-10th September 2020, Valparaiso, Chile https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ An IEEE Computational Society-sponsored conference ==== Important Dates ==== Submission deadline: 15th March 2020 Author notification: 15th May 2020 Camera ready due: 1st July 2020 Conference: 7th-10th September 2020 ==== Overview ==== The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), previously referred to as ICDL-EpiRob, is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of cognitive and developmental learning. As such, ICDL is a unique conference gathering researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and developmental studies. ICDL is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to showcase and share the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions. ICDL community focusses on the understanding of how biological agents take advantage of interaction with social and physical environments to develop their cognitive capabilities. Moreover, how this knowledge can be used to improve future computing and robotic systems. We invite submissions for the conference to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. ==== Scope and Topics ==== The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to: - principles and theories of development and learning; - development of skills in biological systems and robots; - nature vs nurture, developmental stages; - models on the contributions of interaction to learning; - verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction; - models on active learning; - architectures for lifelong learning; - emergence of body and affordance perception; - analysis and modelling of human motion and state; - models for prediction, planning and problem solving; - models of human-human and human-robot interaction; - emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication; - epistemological foundations and philosophical issues; - robot prototyping of human and animal skills; - ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics; - social learning in humans, animals, and robots. ==== Submissions ==== Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of six pages with the possibility of two-extra pages at a fee. Submissions are in the IEEE conference template. Submission will be selected for either oral or poster presentation based on the reviews. Accepted and presented regular six-page paper submissions will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore after the conference. For more information about submissions, travel grants, social events, etc. visit the conference webpage under https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ ==== Organizing committee ==== General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Program and Finance Chairs: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, and María-José Escobar Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Frédéric Alexandre, and Linda Smith Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie Nagai, and Emre Ugur Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz Local chairs: Mauricio Araya Webpage Chairs: Cristóbal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro Best regards from the organizing committee, -- Best regards, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero https://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/

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ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops (deadline extended to 17 Feb)
by Leimin Tian 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

*********************************************************************************** ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops (deadline extended to 17 Feb) 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 17, 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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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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