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@lists.stir.ac.uk [mailto:face-research-list-bounces@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@korea.ac.kr web: cogsys.korea.ac.kr

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