HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 50

Monday, 17th December 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 18 December 2007

Participant Spotlight

Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University

Research area: Speech Pathology

Sharynne McLeod, is associate professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. She is vice president of the International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Association, a Fellow of Speech Pathology Australia and is editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (www.informaworld.com/advances). Her recent books are The international guide to speech acquisition (Thomson, 2007) and Speech sounds: A pictorial guide to typical and atypical speech (Plural, 2007). A/Professor McLeod's research foregrounds the right of everyone (particularly children) to participate fully in society. She applies the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, World Health Organization, 2001) to children with speech impairment, focussing on aspects of Body Structure (e.g., mapping tongue/palate contact for speech using electropalatography and ultrasound), Body Function (e.g., acquisition of consonant clusters), Activities and Participation (e.g., Speech Participation and Activity for Children – SPAA-C), Environmental Factors (including siblings, and parents), and Personal Factors. The interrelationship of each of these areas of inquiry are essential for envisioning full participation of children. A/Professor McLeod holds an ARC Discovery grant titled: "Children with speech impairment: A population study of prevalence, severity, impact and service provision" that addresses each of these areas. A/Professor McLeod provided expertise into the World Health Organization's children and youth version of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and is an expert member of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Advisory Committee on Australian and International Disability Data (ACCAID). In 2006 she was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship and in 2007 was awarded a Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for her "sustained dedication, innovation and enthusiasm in university teaching that has had local, national and international impact".

Contact:
Sharynne McLeod
Charles Sturt University
email: smcleod@csu.edu.au     www: www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/teached/staff/mcleod_sharynne.htm

News

HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text

Thanks to all participants who attended the HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text held at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, on 13 and 14 December 2007. The workshop was a great success and we'd like to thank the convenor, Dr Joanne Arciuli, and research assistant, Cathy Oliver, for coordinating the event. Please click here for event photos.

Second HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI

VisHCI 2007 was held as a Tutorial Day in Adelaide on 2 December 2007 in conjunction with Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2007, and brought together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of disciplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Our thanks to Drs Roland Goecke and Antonio Robles-Kelly for organising this event which provided an international forum for scholarly exchange and future collaborations in the human communication sciences.

SummerFest '07

As mentioned in last week's newsletter, SummerFest photos are now available here. Found at the Registration Desk at UNSW: Men's XL black, grey and maroon polar fleece sleeveless jacket. To claim, please email info@hcsnet.edu.au.

Postdoctoral Fellow Position at CSIRO ICT Centre

The CSIRO ICT Centre is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of Human-Centered Computing, to be based at their Marsfield site in Sydney. The Fellow will research methods to model team interactions and roles from features extracted from audiovisual recordings of group meetings. Through participation in the EU sponsored AMI project (www.amiproject.org), the researcher will work with leading international academic and industrial partners in signal and language processing, and human-centered computing research. The position will require some international travel for project meetings and the Fellow may gain support for a study period within one of the international partner sites. More information on the position as well as details on the application procedure, are available here. Applications close 4 January 2008.

Last Newsletter in 2007

This is the last issue of the HCSNet Update Newsletter that we'll be sending out in 2007 - thanks to contributors and readers this year. Please note that the newsletter will resume on 8 January 2008. In the meantime, we wish everyone a very happy and safe holiday season.

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.

ICMPC10 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

Sapporo, Japan
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Jefferson City, TN, United States
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations

University of Reading, United Kingdom
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/cls_event.htm

ICCS'08 Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning

Toulouse, France
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.iccs.info

18 CGG 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

Lisbon, Portugal
Due date: 2 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.fl.ul.pt/18CGG

CCCT 2008 The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies

Orlando, United States
Due date: 9 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.infocybereng.org/ccct2008g

CLDC-2 The 2nd Conference on Language, Discourse & Cognition

Taipei, Taiwan
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop

Columbus Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: www.isca-students.org/acl_08_hlt_student_research_workshop

ACL 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics

Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=362

AISB 2008 Convention Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

Scotland, United Kingdom
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/aisb08/

Workshop on Text Mining

Georgia, United States
Due date: 11 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.cs.utk.edu/tmw08

SAW 2008 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web

Innsbruck, Austria
Due date: 12 Jan 2008
URL: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008

Abstract Objects: Semantics and Philosophy of Mathematics

Paris, France
Due date: 13 Jan 2008
URL:

SLTU International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

Hanoi, Viet Nam
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu

Vagueness and Language Use

Paris, France
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://paulegre.free.fr/Vagueness/index.html

CFP Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages

Tartu, Estonia
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla

First SignTyp Conference

Storrs CT, United States
Due date: 15 Jan 2008
URL: http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/

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.

Persistent Conversation Minitrack - HICSS 41

Hawaii, United States
Date: 7 Jan 2008
to 10 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html

IJCNLP-08 The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Date: 7 Jan 2008
to 12 Jan 2008 URL: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/

Behavioural research in chamber music: psychological approaches to preparation and performances

Manchester, United Kingdom
Date: 8 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.rncm.ac.uk/media/pdfs/Behavioural_research_conference.pdf

Automated Syntactic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date: 8 Jan 2008
URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on GLOBAL INTEROPERABILITY FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date: 9 Jan 2008
to 11 Jan 2008 URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

IJCNLP-08 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Date: 11 Jan 2008
to 12 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/

IUI4DR Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions

Canary Islands, Spain
Date: 13 Jan 2008
URL: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr

CSKGOI Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces

Canary Islands, Spain
Date: 13 Jan 2008
URL: http://csc-master.media.mit.edu/cskgoi/

AIRS 2008 Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium

Harbin, China
Date: 16 Jan 2008
to 18 Jan 2008 URL: http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008

CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Syllable

New York, United States
Date: 17 Jan 2008
to 18 Jan 2008 URL:
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