[humaine news] CFP: Interspeech 2010 Special Session on Social Signals in Speech

[d.k.j.Heylen at ewi.utwente.nl]

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Call for Papers
Interspeech 2010 Special Session on Social Signals in Speech
26 - 30 September 2010 in Makuhari, Japan
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The expressive functions of vocal behavior have been widely investigated
and described in the literature. However, most of this research was
limited to the investigation of affective states with the prototypical
emotions such as anger, disgust, happiness, or the emotional dimensions
of arousal and valence, receiving most of the focus. Other expressive
dimensions, related to the signaling of social cues in interaction, have
received far less attention. Among these expressive dimensions we
consider signals of politeness or rudeness, familiarity,
(dis-)agreement, rapport, dominance, etcetera, and also of social
emotions including being angry at the interlocutor, love and liking,
jealousy or flirting, etcetera.  
Unraveling
the relation between vocal and social conversational phenomena is
relevant for the understanding and automatic analysis of human social
signals. As future applications, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs)
and spoken dialogue systems can be developed which will be able to
behave more human-like and will be able to recognize and display social
interactional behavior. This special session aims to create a better
understanding of how vocal behavior can be used to signal social cues in
interaction. We intend to discuss state-of-the-art research on the
relation between vocal behavior and social interaction, and we aim to
raise discussions about fundamental issues and future challenges in this
emerging domain of Social Signal Processing (SSP).

We invite researchers to contribute to this special session on Social
Signals in Speech, a multidisciplinary subject that lies on the
interface of speech science, linguistics, social science, signal
processing and technology. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

The (automatic) analysis of social interaction, such as

* Group-interaction dynamics
* (Dis)-agreement
* Politeness
* Social status
* Dominance
* Empathy
* Rapport
* Friendliness
* Flirting
* Likeability/attractiveness
* (Social) attitude
* Interactional synchrony
* Alignment
* Social mimicry
* Engagement
* Subjectivity
* Speaker role

in relation to vocal behavior, such as

* Prosody
* Non-lexical vocalizations (e.g., laughter, crying)
* Backchannels
* Floor interaction
* Turn-taking patterns
* Pauses and silences
* Interruptions
* Speech rhythm
* Voice quality

Submission procedure
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Papers (4 pages) for the Special Session on Social Signals in Speech
will undergo the regular conference submission and review procedure.
Please refer to the main conference website of Interspeech 2010 for full
details:
http://www.interspeech2010.org
Upon submission, the Special Session on Social Signals in Speech will be
available for selection. Presentation format will (most likely) be oral.

Important dates
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* Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2010
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: 2 July 2010
* Conference dates: 26-30 September 2010

Websites
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* Main conference Interspeech 2010: http://www.interspeech2010.org
* Special Session on Social Signals in Speech:
http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~truongkp/is2010sssss.html
* Social Signal Processing: http://sspnet.eu/
* Human Media Interaction, University of Twente:
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/

Session organisers
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Khiet Truong and Dirk Heylen
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente {k.p.truong,
d.k.j.heylen}@ewi.utwente.nl