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<p class="MsoNormal">Brain and physiological signals for multi-user modeling</p><p class="MsoNormal">Special session in ACII 2017 (Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.affective-sciences.org/en/bps-mum" target="_blank">http://www.affective-sciences.<wbr>org/en/bps-mum</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">** Description **</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emotional cues, generated subconsciously by the
human body, have always been a crucial part of affective computing.
Machines can learn about a person's affective state by analyzing
measurements such as autonomic nervous system responses,
neurophysiological measurements and gaze behavior. They can then act on
the inferred information, adapting their own behavior, response or
service based on the user's affective state.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although emotions can be viewed as a social
phenomenon, current physiological computing research is focused on
emotions which are triggered by non-social stimuli. In the case of group
interactions, emotions do not only develop in one’s
mind but rather unfold according to the emotional expressions of the
others. Consequently, the behavior, expressions and physiology of
interacting people are known to be in synchrony during interactions.
This inter-dependency of behavior and emotional expressions
can in turn predict several properties of the social interaction such
as grounding, mutual understanding, conflict, or social presence.
Similarly, researchers in social neuro-science perform hyper-scanning to
measure joint brain activities of people interacting
with each other. The objective being to uncover brain areas and neural
mechanisms supporting social processes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With this special session we would like to develop
research on multi-users’ modeling from neural and physiological sources.
Here the concept of user modeling is defined broadly, including
emotional, cognitive and social aspects which can
be used for intelligent interactions. This special session targets
researchers from computer science, neuro-science and psycho-physiology
who are interested in the following research questions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- What information about the user state and the
quality of the interaction between users can be gained from
(neuro-)physiological signals?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- How can that information, combined from several users, be used to interact adaptively with a machine?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- What is the effect of sharing physiological information with others?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Which methods can be developed to reduce inter-users variability and improve user modeling?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The special session topics include but are not limited to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Collaborative brain-computer interfaces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Tangible / social display of physiological and neural cues</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Social bio-feedback</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Assessment of social processes (conflict, empathy, relationship etc.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Assessment of the quality of interaction and collaboration</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Social neuroscience and psycho-physiology</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Emotion assessment, particularly social emotions</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Domain and transfer learning for building cross-participant models</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Methods for multiple user modeling (e.g. synchrony measures, dynamic multi-users' models, etc.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Applications of multi-user physiological computing</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To facilitate the research on physiological signal
classification, several databases are publicly available. Contributions
on the physiological data available in such databases are welcome but
not obliged. Example databases include:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EATMINT: <a href="https://eatmint.unige.ch" target="_blank">https://eatmint.unige.ch</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RECOLA: <a href="https://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/recola" target="_blank">https://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/<wbr>recola</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">MMDB: <a href="http://www.cbi.gatech.edu/mmdb/" target="_blank">http://www.cbi.gatech.edu/<wbr>mmdb/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Those databases are only examples and work on self-collected or other data are welcome.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">** Important dates **</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Conference Dates: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">October 23-26, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper Submission Deadline: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">May 2, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reviews Provided to Authors: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">June 16, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author Rebuttals Due: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">June 23, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Notification of Acceptance: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">July 14, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera Ready Papers Due: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">August 18, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Full paper authors should register By: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">August 7, 2017</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Early registration deadline: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">September 1, 2017</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">** Submission procedure **</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Papers submitted to this Special Sessions have to
be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular ACII
papers (ACII paper submission). When submitting your paper please check
the corresponding box for the Special Session
on "Brain and physiological signals for multi-users modeling" in the
ACII submission system.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers as the remaining ACII submissions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">** Organizers **</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guillaume Chanel, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">guillaume.chanel[at]<a href="http://unige.ch" target="_blank">unige.ch</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.affective-sciences.ch/user/chanel" target="_blank">http://www.affective-sciences.<wbr>ch/user/chanel</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Christian Mühl, German Aerospace Center, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cmuehl[at]<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmuhl" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>cmuhl</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jérémy Frey, Ullo, France</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">jfrey[at]<a href="http://ullo.fr" target="_blank">ullo.fr</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://phd.jfrey.info" target="_blank">http://phd.jfrey.info</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anton <span class="gmail-il">Nijholt</span>, University of Twente, The Netherlands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">anijholt[at]<a href="http://cs.utwente.nl" target="_blank">cs.utwente.nl</a></p>
<a href="http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Eanijholt/" target="_blank">http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~<wbr>anijholt/</a></div>