<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">***Special Session on recognition Of Affect Signals from physiologIcal data for Social robots (OASIS 2014)***</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.phycs.org/OASIS.aspx" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.phycs.org/OASIS.aspx</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In conjunction with the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS 2014) and in Cooperation with FP7 EU-project EMOTE.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">7 - 9 January, 2014</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - Lisbon, Portugal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Scope:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">With the recent advances in biosensor technology, small, wireless and inexpensive sensors are becoming increasingly more popular, as users can wear these sensors while performing a large set of activities without becoming intrusive. These devices can measure, for example, arousal through skin conductance, a form of electrodermal activity linked to states of excitement, attention, anxiety or cognitive load. Socially and affect-aware robots that can capture some of these states from the user are considered more effective in engaging users for longer periods of time. For these reasons, research on physiological signals has been attracting the attention of researchers in the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The focus of the session is on how to apply physiological computing in order to make robots more interactive, socially aware and empathic towards users. By addressing these challenges, we expect to attract researchers from the areas of Human-Robot Interaction, Affective Computing, Multimodal Behavioural Perception and Social Signal Processing. The main expected outcomes are the identification and discussion of the most relevant challenges, issues and opportunities of using this technology in HRI scenarios. We expect to promote closer interaction among researchers from different communities, and to provide a forum in which researchers can share and discus their main findings in this area.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics of interest include:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Affect and behaviour recognition using physiological data</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Multimodal human affect and social behaviour recognition</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Applications for physiological data in human-robot and human-computer interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Techniques for pattern recognition and social signal processing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Methodologies for using physiological data in HRI and HCI evaluations</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Data collection in real-world environments</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper Submission: November 6</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors Notification: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">November 20, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera Ready and Registration: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">December 2, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organizing Committee:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ginevra Castellano, University of Birmingham, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Iolanda Leite, Yale University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ana Paiva, INESC-ID and IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Committee:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Patrícia Arriaga, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Christian Becker-Asano, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sidney D’Mello, University of Notre Dame,USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University of London, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rui Henriques, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ehsan Hoque, MIT Media Lab, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Arvid Kappas, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dennis Küster, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Laurel Riek, University of Notre Dame, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mohammad Soleymani, Imperial College London, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Georgios N. Yannakakis, IT University of Copenhagen</span><div>
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