The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing is responsible for hosting the biennial conference ACII. At the conference I was promoted to President of the Association. There are a lot of things to do and with the next president elect and the former president I hope we can initiate a lot of things to advance the field.
Category Archives: Work
SO-I-C.TV
We demo-ed SO-I-C.TV at the GoGBOT Festival in Enschede and the IVA conference in Delft. (www.so-i-c.tv)
Tasty Bits and Bytes
In the COMMIT/ valorisation project “Tasty Bits and Bytes” we will explore mixed reality technology to enhance the dining experience. Partners in the project are Unilever and Friesland Campina.
To get an idea of the kinds of things that we will be exploring and to keep updated you can visit our website.
Scientific Events in 2015
Together with colleagues from the lab and other institutes I am involved in organising several scientific events.
- August, 24-28: Intelligent Virtual Agents, Delft.
- September, 21: Workshop on Affective Touch, Xi’An (ACII2015)
- November: Workshop on Advances in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction, Seattle (ICMI2015)
Art, Media & Technology 2014/2015
This year was the last time we ran the Art, Media and Technology Minor – a collaboration between the Art Academy (AKI) and the University of Twente (Computer Science and Philosophy) that we started more than 10 years ago. I have been coordinating the programme since the start and was also teaching one of the courses “Media and Technology” with involvement of a lot of colleagues and students over the years. The course involved into a challenge for the students of all different backgrounds to look at “user experience” in a different way. University students are challenged to forget about theory, words, books and to communicate not by telling but by showing.
Here are some projects from this year CoCcoon and also this. Bonapetit. The Flight Landing Experience.
Christian has a blog entry on last year’s projects.
Aria Valuspa Kick-off
The first Aria Valuspa project meeting was held in January, in Nottingham. In this project we will be looking at virtual characters that can assist users with information queries. It combines expertise in dialogue, information retrieval, virtual humans and also emotion recognition.
An article on the project was published in the UT-News magazine.
Our work on Mediated Social Touch was featured in the nrc-next newspaper on Friday, March 22.
Workshops at ACII and IVA
How it came about I do not know anymore, but it seems I am involved in three workshops at the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference later this year.
- Techniques towards Companion Technologies
- CASA: Computers as Social Actors
- Multimodal Corpora: Beyond audio and video
At the ACII conference (Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction) I am involved in organising a workshop on (mediated) touch and affect: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/MeTA.
Inauguration
Feedback Workshop
Together with Nigel Ward, David Novick, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jens Edlund and Tatsuaya Kawara I organized a workshop on feedback behaviors in dialog as a satellite event of Interspeech. The workshop was a big success and was attended by a nice number of people. The proceedings can be found here: