Social Signal Processing

What does it mean to be social? distinguishing social from biological signal systems -- Universal dimensions of social cognition -- Measuring responses to nonverbal social signals: research on affect receiving ability -- Computational analysis of vocal expression of affect - trends and challenges -- The vertical dimension of social signaling -- Self-presentation: signaling personal and social characteristics -- Interaction coordination and adaptation -- Social signals and persuasion -- Social presence in CMC and VR -- Facial actions as social signals -- Automatic analysis of bodily social signals -- Computational approaches for personality prediction -- Automatic analysis of aesthetics: human beauty, attractiveness, and likability -- Interpersonal synchrony: from social perception to social interaction -- Automatic analysis of social emotions -- Social signal processing for automatic role recognition -- Machine learning methods for social signal processing -- Speech synthesis: state-of-the-art and challenges for the future -- Body movements generation for virtual characters and social robots -- Approach and dominance as social signals for affective interfaces -- Virtual reality and prosocial behaviour -- Social signal processing in social robotics -- Social signal processing for surveillance -- Analysis of small groups -- Multimedia implicit tagging -- Social signal processing for conflict analysis and understanding -- Social signal processing and socially assistive robotics in developmental disorders -- Social signal of deception and dishonesty