UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

 "Affective and Social Signal Processing for Human-Robot Interaction"

                        Dr. Hatice Gunes
         (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

                    8 December 2016  (Thursday)
                             1 - 2 pm


                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Lecture Theatre B404

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:

 Computing that is sensitive to affective and social phenomena aims to
equip devices and interfaces with the means to interpret, understand, and
respond to human personality, affect, moods and intentions - similarly
to how humans rely on their senses to assess each other's affective
and social behaviour. This talk will focus on automatic recognition
of affect and social signals, and will present an overview of recent
research works my team has conducted in these fields in the context of
human-virtual agent interactions and human-robot interactions.


Short bio: Hatice Gunes (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/) is a Senior
Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at University of Cambridge. Prior
to that she led the Affective and Human Computing Lab at Queen Mary
University of London as an Associate Professor.  Her research expertise
is in the areas of affective computing and social signal processing
that lie at the crossroad of multiple disciplines including computer
vision, signal processing, machine learning, multimodal interaction
and human-robot interaction. She has published over 80 papers in these
areas (Google scholar citations > 2300, H-index=22). She pioneered
research on multimodal behaviour and affect analysis proposing novel
machine learning models and pushing the state of the art to real-time,
dimensional and continuous prediction and recognition of head gestures,
facial and bodily affect, and personality. Under EPSRC MAPTRAITS
project she proposed a new conceptual framework for analysing perceived
personality in real-time. Her recent work focuses on Digital Personhood
through the EPSRC Humans and Robots in Public Spaces Project that aims
to produce greater social cohesion and integration in public spaces,
and increase access to public spaces in robot proxy forms.

Dr Gunes is the President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of
Affective Computing (AAAC), she serves on the Executive Committee and the
Management Board of the Association for AAAC and the Steering Committee
of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. She is an Associate Editor of
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
and Image and Vision Computing Journal. She is the Program Co-Chair of the
12th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE FG
2017, and has acted as the main organiser and chair of EmoSPACE Workshop
series (2011-2015) organized in conjunction with IEEE FG, as a workshop
chair for ACII'15, doctoral consortium chair for IEEE FG'15, as grand
challenge chair for ACM ICMI'14 and ACM ICMI'16, as an Area Chair for
UMAP'16, IEEE RO-MAN'16, ACM Multimedia'15, ACM Multimedia'14, ACII'13,
ACM ICMI'13 and IEEE ICME'13, and as a panel organiser for the panel
on Emotional and Signals in Multimedia (ACM MM'14). She has also edited
Special Issues in International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, Image and
Vision Computing, and ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.

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