[Amdnl] Social Signal Processing - The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions 2012

[Mohamed Chetouani]

How computational methods and engineering can help addressing child  
and adolescent psychopathology?

There has been a growing attention towards the development of  
investigation techniques for a better understanding of child  
development. Identifying and analysing the social signals exchanged  
during interaction is challenging. Manual annotation and evaluation  
are not enough. Indeed, communication is a highly dynamic process and  
requires specific methods.

  In the past few years, many attempts have been made to develop  
computational models for human interaction analysis. Research works  
done on the emergent domain of social signal processing are dedicated  
to analysis of human behaviours. While most of the developed methods  
integrate at different levels knowledge from social sciences, few  
works have been done on real clinical situations.
In the same time, robotics offer a relevant framework for both  
clinical and assistive applications due to the learning and agentivity  
skills of robots. They have been intensively employed for the design  
of socially assistive devices aiming at providing encouragements and  
helps during complex tasks.

The SSP IACAPAP 2012 Symposium proposes to fill the gap between these  
communities by gathering researchers and practitioners active in the  
field of child development, social signal processing and social  
robotics. Joint research across these communities will have a major  
impact on methodologies, problems and issues related to children with  
altered development (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder) or stressful  
context (e.g. severe neglect).

Organization:
This event is organized as symposium of the World Congress of the  
International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and  
Allied Professions from July 21st to 25th 2012 in Paris: http://www.iacapap2012.org/
Based on the congress schedule, three successive symposia on the same  
day and one poster session will offer short presentations on key  
workshop topics and promote discussion on the most critical issues and  
controversies of the research areas for a fruitful cross- 
fertilization. Call for proposals are welcomed regarding:

- Child Development Analysis Using Social Signal Processing Techniques
- Socially Intelligent Processing of Atypical Interactive Situations
- Socially Assistive Robotics for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder


Organizers:
Mohamed Chetouani, ISIR-UPMC, France

David Cohen, ISIR-UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, France

Jacqueline Nadel, UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, France

Björn Schuller, TUM, Germany


Information:

http://ssp-iacapap2012.isir.upmc.fr/

sspiacapap2012[@]isir.upmc.fr


Important dates:

Submission expected before February 2012, 29th:

Acceptance notification March 2012, 19th

One day symposium: expected dates July 21st to 25th 2012



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Mohamed Chetouani
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
UMR7222

Pyramide – Tour 55
Boîte courrier 173
4 Place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE

Tel : (33) 01 44 27 63 08
Fax : (33) 01 44 27 44 38
Email : Mohamed.Chetouani at upmc.fr