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The First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal SynchrONy -
INTERPERSONAL@ICMI2015
(
http://interpersonalicmi2015.isir.upmc.fr)
@the17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015)
(
http://icmi.acm.org/2015/)
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SCOPE
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Understanding human behavior through computer vision and signal processing has become of
major interest with the emergence of social signal processing and affective computing
andtheir applications to human-computer interaction. With few exceptions, research has
focusedon detection of individual persons, their nonverbal behavior in the context of
emotion and related psychosocial constructs. With advances in methodology, there is
increasing interest inadvancing beyond the individual to social interaction of multiple
individuals. This level of analysis brings to the fore detection and understanding of
interpersonal influence and interpersonal synchrony in social interaction.
Interpersonal synchrony in social interaction between interactive partners is the dynamic
andreciprocal adaptation of their verbal and nonverbal behaviors. It affords both a novel
domain for computer vision and machine learning, as well as a novel context with which to
examine individual variation in cognitive, physiological, and neural processes in the
interacting members. Interdisciplinary approaches to interpersonal synchrony are
encouraged. Investigating these complex phenomena has both theoretical and practical
applications.
The proposed workshop will explore the challenges of modeling, recognition, and synthesis
of influence and interpersonal synchrony. It will address theory, computational models,
and algorithms for the automatic analysis and synthesis of influence and interpersonal
synchrony. We wish to explore both influence and interpersonal synchrony in human-human
and human-machine interaction in dyadic and multi-person scenarios. Expected topics
include definition of different categories of interpersonal synchrony and influence,
multimodal corpora annotation of interpersonal influence, dynamics of relevant behavioral
patterns, and synthesis and recognition of verbal and nonverbal patterns of interpersonal
synchrony and influence.The INTERPERSONAL workshop will afford opportunity for discussing
new applications such as clinical assessment, consumer behavior analysis, and design of
socially aware interfaces.
The INTERPERSONAL workshop will identify and promote research challenges relevant tothis
exciting topic of synchrony.
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LIST OF TOPICS
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We encourage papers and demos addressing, but not limited to, the following research
topics:
- Theoretical approaches to interpersonal synchrony in human/human and human/machine
interaction
- Analysis and detection of non-verbal patterns of interpersonal synchrony/influence
- Models taking into account the relatioship between influence and synchrony
- Analysis and detection of physiological signals
- Modeling interpersonal synchrony in dyadic and in multi-party social interaction
- Psychological correlates of interpersonal synchrony/influence
- Analysis and detection of functional roles, persuasion, trust, dominance and so on
- Recording and annotation of corpora that vary in degree of experimental control
- Qualitative and quantitative evaluation
- Design of social agents and dialog systems.
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SUBMISSIONS AND REVISIONS
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Long paper: 8 pages maximum in the two-column ACM format as the main conference. Accepted
long papers will be presented as long talk or a poster.
Short paper: 4 pages maximum in the two-column ACM format as the main conference. Accepted
short papers will be presented as either a short talk or a poster.
Submissions should include: title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax
number(s), and postal address(es).
The papers have to be submitted at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interpersonalicmi201
All the contributions will be subject to a peer-review by at least three reviewers from
the Program Committee.
INTERPERSONAL review is double blind, that is the authors do not know the name of the
reviewers and the reviewers do not know the names of the authors. As a consequence, each
submission should be anonymised: please, remove the authors names and all the information
that could identify the authors.
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DEADLINES
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July 20th, 2015: Submission deadline
August 4th, 2015: Notification of acceptance
August 17th, 2015: Camera ready version due to electronic form
November 13th, 2015: 2015 INTERPERSONAL@ICMI2015 Workshop
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ORGANIZATION
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Mohamed Chetouani,
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics,
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
(mohamed.chetouani at upmc.fr)
Giovanna Varni,
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics,
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
(varni at isir.upmc.fr)
Hanan Salam,
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics,
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
(salam at isir.umpc.fr)
Zakia Hammal
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
(zakia_hammal at yahoo.fr)
Jeffrey F. Cohn
University of Pittsburgh
Robotic Institute
Carnegie Mellon Univeersity
(jeffcohn at
cs.cmu.edu)
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SPONSORS
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This workshop is partially supported by the Laboratory of Excellence SMART
(
http://www.smart-labex.fr)
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
Human-Machine Interaction
Facial Expression Recognition
Visual Perception
http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html