2015 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Mohamed Chetouani,
- Giovanna Varni,
- Hanan Salam,
- Zakia Hammal,
- Jeffrey F. Cohn
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal Synchrony -- INTEPERSONAL 2015 in conjunction with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2015), 9-13 November, in Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Recent advances in interaction technology and methodology fostered a shift of interest in investigating beyond the individual to social interaction of multiple individuals. Complex phenomena as interpersonal synchrony and influence started to be more and more investigated in order to provide a better understanding of human interaction and guidelines to design machines able to show refined social skills.
The First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal SynchrONy (INTERPERSONAL 2015) is an occasion of excellence for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss about the current knowledge and the open challenges on modeling, recognition, and synthesis of influence and interpersonal synchrony. Further, this Workshop is aimed at identifying new research challenges, fostering collaborations and future projects and contributing to define milestones in the social signal processing roadmap.
INTERPERSONAL 2015 attracted research papers from various countries across the world, which were rigorously reviewed by the programme committee members. We take this opportunity to thank them for their professionalism and valuable comments they provided to the authors. This review process resulted in the acceptance of 7 papers for publication.
The workshop includes the valuable keynote of Prof. Andrew Meltzoff: "Infants' Brains Are Wired to Learn from Culture: Implications for Social Robots"
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The First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPersonal SynchrONy (INTERPERSONAL 2015)
Recent advances in interaction technology and methodology fostered a shift of interest in investigating beyond the individual to social interaction of multiple individuals. Complex phenomena as interpersonal synchrony and influence started to be more ...
Infants' Brains are Wired to Learn from Culture: Implications for Social Robots
Human beings are the most imitative creatures on the planet. Prior to language, human infants, use imitation to learn about physical objects and cultural practices [1]. Young children learn novel skills [2], abstract principles [3,4], and cultural ...
Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring
Conversational interaction is a dynamic process in which information is conveyed and relationships are negotiated via the use and timing of specific conversational strategies. In this work we examine similarity in use and timing of the relationship-...
We Click, We Align, We Learn: Impact of Influence and Convergence Processes on Student Learning and Rapport Building
Behavioral convergence has been identified as one (largely subconscious) contributor to successful conversations, while rapport is one of the central constructs that explains development of personal relationships between these speakers over time. Social ...
Exploring Children's Verbal and Acoustic Synchrony: Towards Promoting Engagement in Speech-Controlled Robot-Companion Games
Children's interpersonal synchrony has been related to various benefits in social, mental and emotional development. We explore verbal and acoustic synchrony patterns between pairs of children playing a speech-controlled video game. Verbal features ...
Communicative Behavior and Physiology in Social Interactions
We introduce here a new experimental set-up that provides temporally aligned behavioral (including linguistic) together with physiological activity time-series recorded during social interactions. It brings the experimental approach closer to ecological ...
Automatic Speaker Identification from Interpersonal Synchrony of Body Motion Behavioral Patterns in Multi-Person Videos
Interpersonal synchrony, i.e. the temporal coordination of persons during social interactions, was traditionally studied by developmental psychologists. It now holds an important role in fields such as social signal processing, usually treated as a ...
Dynamic Time Warping of Multimodal Signals for Detecting Highlights in Movies
Affective computing has strong ties with literature and film studies, e.g. text sentiment analysis, affective tagging of movies. In this work we report on recent findings towards identifying highlights in movies on the basis of the synchronization of ...
SyncPy: a Unified Open-source Analytic Library for Synchrony
Despite the growing interest on synchrony in many scientific fields, at the present, a unified framework and tool to study synchrony are still missing. This paper introduces the SyncPy library, an open-source Python library, conceived to perform ...
