How computational methods and engineering can help addressing child and adolescent psychopathology?
There has been a growing attention towards the development of investigation techniques for a better understanding of child development. Identifying and analysing the social signals exchanged during interaction is challenging. Manual annotation and evaluation are not enough. Indeed, communication is a highly dynamic process and requires specific methods.
In the past few years, many attempts have been made to develop computational models for human interaction analysis. Research works done on the emergent domain of social signal processing are dedicated to analysis of human behaviours. While most of the developed methods integrate at different levels knowledge from social sciences, few works have been done on real clinical situations.
In the same time, robotics offer a relevant framework for both clinical and assistive applications due to the learning and agentivity skills of robots. They have been intensively employed for the design of socially assistive devices aiming at providing encouragements and helps during complex tasks.
The SSP IACAPAP 2012 Symposium proposes to fill the gap between these communities by gathering researchers and practitioners active in the field of child development, social signal processing and social robotics. Joint research across these communities will have a major impact on methodologies, problems and issues related to children with altered development (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder) or stressful context (e.g. severe neglect).
Organization
This event is organized as symposium of the World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions from July 21st to 25th 2012 in Paris: http://www.iacapap2012.org/
Based on the congress schedule, three successive symposia on the same day and one poster session will offer short presentations on key workshop topics and promote discussion on the most critical issues and controversies of the research areas for a fruitful cross-fertilization. Call for proposals are welcomed regarding:
Child Development Analysis Using Social Signal Processing Techniques
Socially Intelligent Processing of Atypical Interactive Situations
Socially Assistive Robotics for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Organizers:
Mohamed Chetouani, ISIR-UPMC, France
David Cohen, ISIR-UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, France
Jacqueline Nadel, UPMC, Hôpital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, France
Björn Schuller, TUM, Germany
Information:
Important dates:
Submission expected before February 2012, 29th:
Acceptance notification March 2012, 19th
One day symposium: July 23th 2012