wocbu20: Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/wocbu/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocbu20 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 10, 2020 |
Submission deadline | August 10, 2020 |
The Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior (https://sites.google.com/view/wocbu/home) is co-located with the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction to be held 25-29 October in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Due to the widespread Corona-related measures, the ICMI and the Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior will be held online.
Child behaviour is a topic of wide scientific interest, among many different disciplines including social and behavioural sciences and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, knowledge from these different disciplines is not integrated to its full potential, owing to among others the dissemination of knowledge in different outlets (journals, conferences) and different practices. In this workshop, we aim to connect these fields and fill the gaps between science and technology capabilities to address topics such as: using AI (e.g. audio, visual, textual signal processing and machine learning) to better understand and model child behavioural and developmental processes, challenges and opportunities in large-scale child behaviour analysis, implementing explainable ML/AI on sensitive child data, etc. We also welcome contributions on new child-behaviour related multimodal corpora and preliminary experiments on them.
Submission Guidelines
To facilitate integration of research communities from the social sciences and AI we accept both papers and abstracts. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Long/short papers relevant to the themes of the workshop.
- 1-page abstracts relevant to the themes of the workshop.
Submissions are handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocbu20. Please see the submission guidelines on https://sites.google.com/view/wocbu/submission-guidelines for details.
Committees
Tentative Program Committee
- Abeer Alwan, UCLA, United States of America
- Marisa Casillas, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands
- Abhinav Dhall, Monash University, Australia
- Metehan Doyran, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Olga Frolova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Sibel Halfon, Bilgi University, Turkey
- Gijs Holleman, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Ignace Hooge, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Jorg Huijding, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Russia
- Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Elena Lyakso, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Ben Maassen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Itır Önal Ertuğrul, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
- Marion van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
- Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Gary Yeung, UCLA, United States of America
Organizing committee
- Heysem Kaya, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Roy Hessels, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- Maryam Najafian, MIT, United States
- Sandra Hanekamp, Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School, United States
- Saeid Safavi, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Publication
Proceedings will be published as adjunct proceedings to the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
Venue
The conference will be held online from 25-29 October, the workshops are planned on 25th or 29th October.
Contact
Questions regarding submissions of papers should be emailed to Heysem Kaya (h.kaya@uu.nl). Questions regarding submissions of abstracts should be emailed to Roy Hessels (r.s.hessels@uu.nl).