HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 45

Tuesday, 13th November 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 13 November 2007

Participant Spotlight

Hatice Gunes, University of Technology Sydney

Research area: Intelligent Systems - Human-Computer Interaction

My main research focus is on devising automated analysis algorithms to include natural and human-like interactive functions into computers by describing/organising information regarding the state or state transition of individuals (emotional state, activity, position and pose, etc). I am interested in the areas of visual information processing, affective/human computing, multimodal human-computer interaction, image analysis, machine learning and pattern recognition. The aims of my recent research activity have been that of collecting and annotating multimodal affect data, automatically analysing expressive face and body gestures, recognizing affective states from multiple modalities/cues, and fusing these modalities in an effective way. I finished my PhD thesis titled "Vision-based Multimodal Analysis of Affective Face and Upper-body Behaviour" at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2007. Currently, my focus is on automatic visual surveillance and I am working as a Research Associate on the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Linkage Project titled "Automatic real-time detection of infiltrated objects for security of airports and train stations" with A/Prof. Massimo Piccardi.

Contact:
Hatice Gunes
University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of IT/ Computer Systems
email: haticeg@it.uts.edu.au     www:

News

SummerFest '07: ICoMCS Program available

Held under the organisational umbrella of SummerFest '07, the inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS), will be held from Wednesday 5 to Friday 7 December 2007 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This meeting incorporates a celebration of the first 10 years of the Australian Music & Psychology Society. The aim of the conference is to bring a wide range of presenters together, ranging from students to established researchers with an interest in finding or presenting synergies from several disciplines to help solve problems in music, or to use elements of music and music research to address problems in other disciplines. Please visit http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic/program.html for the full program, including details of the performance session scheduled for Wednesday 5 December.

HCSNet Seminar Support Program

A reminder that HCSNet provides financial support for the organisation of seminars through its Seminar Support Program. The Program aims to bring together researchers who might otherwise not meet as a consequence of both geographical and disciplinary boundaries. Funding of up to $1,000 can be requested for an HCSNet Seminar and is allocated on the basis of competitive applications. Please see http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/programs/seminar for more information.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Historical (Im)Politeness Research

Budapest, Hungary
Due date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.nytud.hu/lprg/pan-hist-imp.html

Speech Prosody 2008 4th Conference on Speech Prosody

Campinas, Brazil
Due date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.sp2008.org

LT 2008 LangTech 2008

Rome, Italy
Due date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.langtech.it

DEAL II Interface Theories

Leiden, Netherlands
Due date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://let.uvt.nl/deal08/

LATA 2008 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Tarragona, Spain
Due date: 16 Nov 2007
URL: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html

DH2008 Digital Humanities 2008

Oulu, Finland
Due date: 18 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/

IUI4DR Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions

Canary Islands, Spain
Due date: 19 Nov 2007
URL: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr

Automatic Analysis of Learner Language: Bridging Foreign Language Teaching Needs and NLP Possibilities

San Francisco, United States
Due date: 19 Nov 2007
URL: http://purl.org/net/calico-workshop

Applied Natural Language Processing

Florida, United States
Due date: 21 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008

THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING

Chicago, United States
Due date: 22 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.LearningConference.com

Language, Communication and Cognition

Brighton, United Kingdom
Due date: 26 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.languageandcognition.net

Mixing Approaches to MACHINE TRANSLATION

Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
Due date: 26 Nov 2007
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/matmt08-2008

IADA 2008 Milano Word Meaning in Argumentative Dialogue

Milan, Italy
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.unicatt.it/IADA

LPRG08 Face, Culture and Social Interaction

Budapest, Hungary
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.nytud.hu/lprg/

SIGWriting 2008 The 11th International EARLI SIG Writing Conference

Lund, Sweden
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://sigwriting2008.sol.lu.se

CADAAD'08 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines

Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://cadaad.org/cadaad08

ALA 2008 9th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness

Hong Kong, China
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala

The International Gender & Language Association 5th Biennial Conference

Wellington, New Zealand
Due date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/igala5/

RaAM 7 Researching and Applying Metaphor

Cáceres, Spain
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.unex.es/eweb/raam7

Third International Conference on Cognitive Science

Moscow, Russian Federation
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.cogsci2008.ru

GCLA-08/DGKL-08 3rd Intl Conf German Cognitive Linguistics Assoc

Leipzig, Germany
Due date: 1 Dec 2007
URL: http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/

ICAD '07 The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display

Montréal, Canada
Due date: 2 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/icad2007/

Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Washington, United States
Due date: 3 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/

NorConfClinLing2008 The First Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics

Joensuu, Finland
Due date: 3 Dec 2007
URL: http://cc.joensuu.fi/linguistics/NorConfClinLing2008/

OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008

University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Due date: 7 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

ECAI 2008 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Patras, Greece
Due date: 10 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Bringing together the science and practice of hearing prostheses

Sydney, Australia
Date: 14 Nov 2007
URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction

Nagoya, Japan
Date: 15 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.slc.atr.jp/iwmisi/

NS2007 New Sounds 2007

Santa Catarina, Brazil
Date: 25 Nov 2007
to 28 Nov 2007 URL: http://www.nupffale.ufsc.br/newsounds/

Large-scale XML Corpora in Language and Literature

Oxford, United Kingdom
Date: 26 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/workshop/

SALC First Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition

Lund, Sweden
Date: 29 Nov 2007
to 1 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.salc-sssk.org/

CoPaLaSt Computational Paradigms and Language Structure

Berlin, Germany
Date: 30 Nov 2007
to 1 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/copalast/index.html?home

SyMi How Language Influences Thought

Berlin, Germany
Date: 30 Nov 2007
URL: http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/denken

The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 5 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au

TeMA-2007 Workshop on Text Mining and Applications

Guimarães, Portugal
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://epia2007.appia.pt/

HCSNet SummerFest '07

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest07

SOLE'07 Seventh Conference on Language Engineering

Cairo, Egypt
Date: 5 Dec 2007
to 6 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.esole.org

Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science

Sydney, Australia
Date: 5 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au/links/ICoMusic

Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

FSI not CSI: Perspectives in State-of-the-Art Forensic Speaker Recognition

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: www.hcsnet.edu.au

SYNLAC Workshop 2007: Language & Culture

Sydney, Australia
Date: 6 Dec 2007
to 7 Dec 2007 URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=18-2929.html&submissionid=158368&topicid=3&msgnumber=1

TLT 2007 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Bergen, Norway
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://tlt07.uib.no

Coarticulation: Cues, Direction, and Representation

Montpellier, France
Date: 7 Dec 2007
URL: http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/praxiling/spip.php?rubrique35

NIPS 07: Music, Brain & Cognition Workshop

Whistler, Canada
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://homepage.mac.com/davidrh/MCBworkshop07/

iicall2 2007 Interfaces of Intelligent CALL

Ontario, Canada
Date: 7 Dec 2007
to 8 Dec 2007 URL: http://purl.org/i-call/

ALTW 2007 Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 10 Dec 2007
to 11 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2007

Workshop on New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Homeg

Taichung, Taiwan
Date: 10 Dec 2007
to 12 Dec 2007 URL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/ism2007_workshop

ADCS 2007 The Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Melbourne, Australia
Date: 10 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~aht/adcs2007/index.html

XPRAG 2007 Experimental Pragmatics 2007

Berlin, Germany
Date: 13 Dec 2007
to 16 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/xprag
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