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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Papers: 4th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU'2013)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia'2013, 22 October, Barcelona, Spain</span><div>
<br></div><div>"Focus Theme: I<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">nteractions in arts, creativity, entertainment and edutainment"</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">Short Description:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Fourth Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, organized as a satellite to ACM MM'2013, will gather researchers dealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of complex social and relational behaviors, performance of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to interactions in arts, creativity, entertainment and edutainment. Concrete examples are interactive art installations that sense and respond to their viewers in novel ways, persuasive and serious games, affect-sensing systems with educational goals, gesture-sensing tutoring systems, healthcare systems that improve the patients’ physical or cognitive well-being, playful interaction settings that serve beneficial purposes, to name a few.</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 HBU Workshops, previously organized as satellite to ICPR, AMI, and IROS Conferences, have a unique aspect of fostering cross-pollination of different disciplines, bringing together researchers of multimedia, robotics, HCI, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, interaction design, ambient intelligence, and psychology. The diversity of human behavior, the richness of multi-modal data that arises from its analysis, and the multitude of applications that demand rapid progress in this area ensure that the HBU Workshops provide a timely and relevant discussion and dissemination platform.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Keynotes:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dr. Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dr. Antonio Camurri, Univ. of Genova, DIBRIS, Casa Paganini - InfoMus Research Centre</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The covered topics would span one or more items from each of the following topic dimensions:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Human Behavior Analysis Systems</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Action and activity recognition</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Affect analysis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Social signal processing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Face analysis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Gestures and haptic interaction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Voice and speech analysis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Learning and adaptation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Gaze, attention and saliency</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">Theory and Methodology of Human Interactive Behaviors</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Theoretical frameworks of behavior analysis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Data collection, annotation, and benchmarking</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• User studies and human factors</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Interaction design</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">Interactive Applications</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Visual and digital arts</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Games and entertainment</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Healthcare and well-being</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Education</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Creativity</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<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">Submissions:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions must represent original material. Papers are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted to, nor published in, another journal or conference. All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous review process by the members of the program committee. The submissions will be up to 12 pages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. The proceedings of previous HBU editions were published by Springer Verlag's LNCS Series. LNCS approval is pending for HBU 2013. The papers of the workshop will also be indexed by the ACM Digital Library.</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">You can submit a paper now at:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hbu2013" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hbu2013</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">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">June 28, 2013: Submission of full papers (23:59pm GMT)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">August 2, 2013: Notification of acceptance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">August 16, 2013: Camera-ready</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">October 22, 2013: Workshop</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">Journal Special Issue:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">There will be a post-workshop special issue at ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. All workshop authors will be invited to submit significantly extended and revised versions of their papers to the special issue.</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">Contact:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Contact A.A. Salah (</span><a href="mailto:salah@boun.edu.tr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">salah@boun.edu.tr</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) about questions regarding HBU.</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">Committees:</span><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">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Albert Ali Salah, Bogaziçi Univ., Turkey.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hayley Hung, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland.</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 Univ. of London (QMUL), UK.</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"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Elisabeth Andre, Univ. Augsburg, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nick Bryan-Kinns, Queen Mary Univ. London, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rafael E. Calvo, Univ. of Sydney, Australia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Antonio Camurri, Univ. of Genova, Italy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jeffrey Cohn, Univ. Pittsburgh, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Simon Colton, 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">Fernando de la Torre, CMU, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thierry Dutoit, Univ. Mons, Belgium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jordi Gonzalez, UAB-CVC Barcelona, Spain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Daniel Gonzalez-Jimenez, Gradiant, Spain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Stefan Göbel, TU Darmstadt, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Zakia Hammal, CMU, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Barcelona, Spain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dinesh Jayagopi, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ben Kröse, Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cem Keskin, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dana Kulic, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Matei Mancas, Univ. of Mons, Belgium</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Louis-Philippe Morency, USC, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Florian Mueller, RMIT, Australia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Frank Nack, Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto Univ., Japan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Isabella Poggi, Univ. Roma Tre, Italy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thierry Pun, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Francis Quek, Virginia Tech, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ben Schouten, Eindhoven Tech. Univ., the Netherlands</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Björn Schuller, Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ., Ireland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Koray Tahiroglu, Aalto Univ., Finland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Giorgios Yannakakis, Univ. of Malta, Malta</span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Albert Ali Salah<br>Bogazici University, Computer Engineering Dept.<br>34342 Bebek - Istanbul, Turkey<br>Phone: +90 212 359 (7774)<br><a href="http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/" target="_blank">http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/</a><br>
Bogazici University, Cognitive Science MA Program<br><a href="http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr" target="_blank">http://www.cogsci.boun.edu.tr</a></div></div>