PROGRAMME, TIMETABLE AND ORGANIZATION (Download)

 

1st day (September 3 2006)

morning

8:30-9:30  REGISTRATION

9:30 - 10:30 Welcome by the local and NATO authorities

Prof. Ragnhild Sohlberg, NATO Science Program, HSD Panel;

Prof. Giovanna Nigro, Director of the Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples;

Prof. Alida Labella, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Second University of Naples;

Prof, Nicola Melone, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Second University of Naples;

Prof. Nando Mancini, Director of the Department of Physics, Salerno University;

Prof. Luigi Maria Ricciardi, Chairman of the Graduate Program on Computational and Information Science, University of Naples Federico II;

Prof. Gaetano Scarpetta, Department of Physics, Salerno University.

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break:

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. David McNeill: The growth point and the challenge it poses to modeling.

12:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break

afternoon

15:00 – 16:30: Prof. David Mc Neill: Dialogue and conversation management.

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:30: Prof. Maja Bratanić: Nonverbal communication as a factor of linguistic and cultural miscommunication

 

2nd day (September 4 2006)

morning

9:00 – 10:30 Prof. David Mc Neill: Gesture and culture (the Kendon spinoff)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break:

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Eric Keller: Individual speech rhythm variation within the plosive structure of speech I

12:30-14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 15:30 Prof. David House:Analyzing and modelling verbal and non-verbal communication for talking animated interface agents I

15:30 - 16:00 – Prof. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 Prof. Eric Keller: Individual speech rhythm variation within the plosive structure of speech II

17:30 – 18:15 Contributors Short presentations

17:30 – 17:45 Ke Li, Yoko Greenberg and Yoshinori Sagisaka: On the analysis of fundamental frequency control characteristics of nonverbal utterances and its application to communicative prosody generation

17:45 – 18:00 Anton Nijholt, Dennis Reidsma, and others: Non-verbal Interaction and Ambient Entertainment

18:00 – 18:15 Ioana Vasilianescu: On the analysis of disfluencies in large spontaneous speech corpora: the case of autonomous fillers

 

3rd day (September 5 2006)

morning

9:00-10:30 Prof. David House: Analyzing and modelling verbal and non-verbal communication for talking animated interface agents II

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Dominic Massaro: A Methodological and Theoretical Framework for the Study of Psychological and Biometrical Characteristics in Verbal and Nonverbal Communication I

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 16:00  Prof. Marcos Faundez-Zanuy Face recognition: an introductory overview

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Prof. Dominic Massaro A Methodological and Theoretical Framework for the Study of Psychological and Biometrical Characteristics in Verbal and Nonverbal Communication II

18:00 – 18:30 Contributors Short presentation

18:00 – 18:15 Prof. Carl Vogel: Experiments in Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Item N-gram Distributions in Texts as Proxy for Textual Fingerprints

18:15 – 18:30 Prof. Aly N. El-Bahrawy A Systemic Approach to Enhance Writing, Analysis, and Presentation Skills

 

4th day (September 6 2006)

morning

9:00 - 10:30: Prof. Anna Esposito The amount of information on emotional states conveyed by the verbal and non verbal channels

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30: Dr. Giovanni Tummarello, Dr. Stefano Squartini, Prof. Francesco Piazza: Standards and tools for Multimedia Metadata: MPEG-7, Semantic Web and a use case involving DSP preprocessing

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break

afternoon

14:30 – 16:00 Prof. Ruth Bahr: Age as a Disguise in a Voice Identification Task

16:00 – 16:30; Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00 Contributors Short presentation

16:30-16:45: Prof. Katerina Pastra: Towards an all-inclusive cross-media relations framework

16:45-17:00: Prof. Leticia Vicente-Rasoamalala: Videocaptured Verbal and Nonverbal Foreign Language Teacher Feedback

17:00 – 18:30: POSTER SESSION I

Bernardis Paolo: Can Word prime gestures?

Cecchi Stefania, Moretti Emanuele; Overcomplete Blind Separation of Speech Sources in the Post Non Linear case through Extended Gaussianization

Daboveanu Diana-Cristina, Niculae Carmen-Eufrusina: The study of similarities in learning foreign languages

Dalla Volta Riccardo: Tongue motor cortex excitability is modulated by the observation of the type of grasp action

Esposito Daniela: The relationship between gestures and prosody: A preliminary investigation on Italian

Grassi Marco:

 Face Recognition Experiment Using AR Database

 

5th day (September 7 2006)

all day Excursion and banquet

6th day (September 8 2006)

morning

9:00 - 10:30 Prof. Neda Pintaric: Transformation of nonverbal signs into verbal ones in Polish and Croatian I

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Nickolaus Borbakis: Detection of Faces and Recognition of Facial Expressions

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 16:00 Dr. Elina Savino: Intonation, Accent and Personal Traits

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30 Prof. Neda Pintaric: Transformation of nonverbal signs into verbal ones in Polish and Croatian II

17:30 – 18:30 Prof. Nikolaus Bourbakis, Praveen Kakumanu: Image Chromatic Adaptation for Face Skin Color Detection

 

7th day (September 9 2006)

morning

9:00 - 10:30 Prof. Nick Campbell: Speech Synthesis and Discourse Information

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Adam Kendon: Talks on gesture I;

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 15:30 Prof. Adam Kendon: Talks on gesture II;

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Prof. Nick Campell: Towards Recognising Speech Gestures in Discourse

 

17:00 – 18:30 POSTER SESSION II

Karjalaimen Sari: Verbal and nonverbal resources in constructing the topical flow in early interaction in picture book environment.

Luengo Iker: Effectiveness of Short-Term Prosodic Features for Speaker Verification

Scivetti Laura: Measuring gestural and prosodic parameters to model communicative behaviours perceived as different

Terenzi Michela: Visual Search, Baggage Screening, and the Assessment of Mental Workload Through the Analysis of Eye-Movements

Vlach Jan and Přinosil Jiřν: Using the Wavelet Transform in Real-time Digital Signal Processing

Udovyk Oksana: The socio-cultural differences and the personal traits in Ukraine’s scientific life

 

 

8th day (September 10 2006)

morning

9:00 10:30 Prof. Catherine Pelachaud: Multimodal expressive ECAs I

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Paola Campadelli: Face recognition from 2D still images

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 16:00 afternoon Panel Discussion: Personal traits, voice prosody, emotional states features and their exploitation for technological applications;

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:30 Contributors short presentations

16:30 – 16:45: Dr. Bui  Huu Trung: A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling

16:45 – 17:00: Dr. Vanhala Toni: Recognizing the effects of voluntary facial activations using heart rate patterns

17:00 – 17:15: Prof. Vicsi Klαra: Prosodic Cues for Automatic Phrase Boundary Detection in ASR

17:15 – 17:30: Dr. Lazic Nikolaj: Research on Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition of Croatian language on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

17:30 – 17:45: Dr. Simeon Ivana: Machine Translation Evaluation: a Case study of Croatian-English and Russian-English MT Systems

17:45 – 18:00: Dr. Samokhval Vladimir: Face recognition using sparse meshes: a promising approach

 

9th day (September 11 2006)

morning

9:00 10:30 Prof. Gerard Bailly: Virtual talking heads and ambiant face-to-face communication I

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Prof. Catherine Pelachaud: Multimodal expressive ECAs II

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 16:00 Prof. Gerard Bailly: Virtual talking heads and ambiant face-to-face communication II

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Dr. Guido Aversano; Audio-Visual Forgery in Identity Verification

 

10th day   (September 12 2006)

morning

9:00 – 9:15: Prof. Volpe Rosa: Images-Signes and Cognitive Scenes to Anchor Comprehension in Language Learning: An Experiment on the Relationship between Verbal and Non Verbal Communication through Italian Film

9:15 – 9:30:  Dr.  Korżyk Krzysztof: The Integrative and Structuring Function of Speech in Face-to-Face Communication from the Perspective of Human-Centered Linguistics

9:30 – 9:45:   Dr. Stejskal Vojtich: Empty pauses detection in a noisy speech conditions

9:45 – 10:00: Dr Jakov Pavlek: 

10:00 - 10:15: Dr Mantovani Fabrizia: Intercultural Differences in Vocal Communication of Emotions: An Experimental Comparison Between Chinese and Italian Young Adults

10:15 – 10:30:  Dr. Rossini Nicla: “Unseen gestures" and the Mind of the Speaker: An analysis of co-verbal gestures in map-task activities

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00: – 12:00 Conclusions

Afternoon Departure