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
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[mailto:face-research-list-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christian Wallraven
Sent: 02 March 2011 10:18
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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
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Sent: 02 March 2011 09:37
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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
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