Unveiling Affective Signals

A one-day Measuring Behavior 2010 Symposium

August 27, 2010

Organizers

Program committee

  • Egon L. van den Broek
  • Anton Nijholt
  • Frans van der Sluis
  • Gert-Jan de Vries
  • Henriette C. van Vugt
  • Joyce H.D.M. Westerink

Program

10:00-10:20 Unveiling Affective Signals. Egon L. van den Broek & Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Joyce H.D.M. Westerink (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
10:20-10:40 Mimicry as a Tool for Understanding the Emotions of Others. Marielle Stel & Kees van den Bos (University of Utrecht)
10:40-11:10 Coffee
11:10-11:50 Relative Affective Blindsight for Fearful Bodily Expressions. Bernard M.C. Stienen & Beatrice de Gelder (MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MA, USA / Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
11:50-12:10 Motor, Emotional and Cognitive Empathic Abilities in Children with Autism and Conduct Disorder. Danielle M.A. Bons, Floor E. Scheepers, Nanda N.J. Rommelse, & Jan K. Buitelaar (Karakter University Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands / Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
12:10-12:30 Facial EMG as a tool for inferring affective states. Anton van Boxtel (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00-14:20 Automatic Measurement of Affect in Dimensional and Continuous Spaces: Why, What, and How? Hatice Gunes & Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, U.K.)
14:20-14:40 Measuring affective and social signals in vocal interaction. Khiet P. Truong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
14:40-15:20 Social Signal Processing: Understanding Nonverbal Communication in Social Interactions. Alessandro Vinciarelli & Fabio Valente (University of Glasgow, UK / Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland).
15:20-15:40 Forum discussion
Links: Unveiling Affective Signals [pdf]

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NB: A draft conference-program is available at the conference webpage.