ICMI 2014 Conference Program

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

All four sessions will be held in parallel. The Doctoral Consortium will be held in the Rectorate Hall. The challenges will be held in Vedat Yerlici Conference Hall. You can find a detailed map of the buildings here.

Coffee breaks are scheduled between 10.00-10.30 and 15.30-16:00, the lunch break is scheduled between 12:00-13:30. 

09:00-17:15

Doctoral Consortium
Session Chair: Marco Cristani

Program available as pdf here

08:45-18:00

Third Multimodal Learning Analytics Workshop and Grand Challenges

Chairs: Xavier Ochoa, Marcelo Worsley, Katherine Chiluiza, and Saturnino Luz

Program available as pdf here

09:30-16:20

The Second Emotion Recognition In The Wild Challenge and Workshop (EmotiW)

Chairs: Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi, Karan Sikka, and Tom Gedeon 

Program available as pdf here

09:00-14:30

MAPTRAITS'14 - Personality Mapping Challenge and Workshop 2014

Chairs: Hatice Gunes, Björn Schuller, Oya Celiktutam, Evangelos Sariyanidi, and Florian Eyben

 Program available as pdf here

Thursday, 13 November 2014

All sessions will take place in the Albert Long Hall, except for the Demos and the Posters will be in the Vedat Yerlici Conference Hall.

Nominees of Outstanding Paper Award and Outstanding Student Paper Award are marked with a star (*)

09:00

Welcome
Albert Salah

09:15

Keynote 1: Bursting our Digital Bubbles: Life Beyond the App

Yvonne Rogers 

Session Chair: Albert Ali Salah

10:15-10:45

Break

10:45-12:25

Oral Session 1: Dialogue and Social Interaction
Session Chair: Toyoaki Nishida

10:45

* Managing Human-Robot Engagement with Forecasts and ... um ... Hesitations
Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz

11:10

Written Activity, Representations and Fluency as Predictors of Domain Expertise in Mathematics
Sharon Oviatt and Adrienne Cohen

11:35

* Analysis of Respiration for Prediction of “Who Will Be Next Speaker and When?" in Multi-Party Meetings
Ryo Ishii, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, and Junji Yamato

12:00

A Multimodal In-Car Dialogue System That Tracks The Driver's Attention
Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Stefan Kopp, and David Schlangen

12:25

Lunch
Bogaziçi University, South Campus

14:00-15:30

Oral Session 2: Multimodal Fusion
Session Chair: Björn Schuller

14:00

* Deep Multimodal Fusion:  Combining Discrete Events and Continuous Signals
Héctor P. Martínez and Georgios N. Yannakakis

14:25

* The Additive Value of Multimodal Features for Predicting Engagement, Frustration, and Learning during Tutoring
Joseph F Grafsgaard, Joseph B Wiggins, Alexandria Katarina Vail, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N Wiebe, and James C Lester

14:50

Computational Analysis of Persuasiveness in Social Multimedia: A Novel Dataset and Multimodal Prediction Approach
Sunghyun Park, Han Suk Shim, Moitreya Chatterjee, Kenji Sagae, and Louis-Philippe Morency

15:15

Deception detection using a multimodal approach
Mohamed Abouelenien, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea and Mihai Burzo

15:40

Break

16:00-18:00

Demo and Exhibit Session  
Session Chairs: Lale Akarun and Kazuhiro Otsuka

Multimodal Interaction for Future Control Centers: An Interactive Demonstrator
Ferdinand Fuhrmann and Rene Kaiser

 

Emotional Charades

Stefano Piana, Alessandra Staglianò, Francesca Odone, and Antonio Camurri

 

Glass Shooter: Exploring First-Person Shooter Game Control with Google Glass

Chun-Yen Hsu, Ying-Chao Tung, Silvia Chyou, Han-Yu Wang, Jer-Wei Lin, and Mike Y. Chen

 

Orchestration for Group Videoconferencing an Interactive Demonstrator

Wolfgang Weiss, Rene Kaiser, and Manolis Falelakis

 

Integrating Remote PPG in Facial Expression Analysis Framework

H. Emrah Tasli, Amogh Gudi, and Marten den Uyl

 

Context-Aware Multimodal Robotic Health Assistant

Vidyavisal Mangipudi, and Raj Tumuluri

 

WebSanyog: A Portable Assistive Web Browser for People with Cerebral Palsy
Tirthankar Dasgupta, and Manjira Sinha

 

The hybrid Agent MARCO

Nicolas Riesterer, Christian Becker-Asano, Julien Hué, Christian Dornhege, and Bernhard Nebel

 

Towards Supporting Non-linear Navigation in Educational Videos
Om Deshmukh, Kuldeep Yadav, and Kundan Shrivastava

 

MotionComposer: A Dance-Music Device for Persons with Disabilities

Robert Wechsler, Andreas Bergsland, and .Ekmel Ertan

16:00-18:00

Poster Session
Session Chairs: Oya Aran and Louis-Philippe Morency

Detecting Conversing Groups with a Single Worn Accelerometer
Hayley Hung, Gwenn Englebienne, and Laura Cabrera Quiros

 

Identification of the Driver’s Interest Point using a Head Pose Trajectory for Situated Dialog Systems
Young-Ho Kim and Teruhisa Misu

 

An Explorative Study on Crossmodal Congruence Between Visual and Tactile Icons Based on Emotional Responses
Taekbeom Yoo, Yongjae Yoo, and Seungmoon Choi

Why We Watch the News: A Dataset for Exploring Sentiment in Broadcast Video News
Joseph G. Ellis, Brendan Jou, and Shih-Fu Chang

 

Dyadic Behavior Analysis in Depression Severity Assessment Interviews
Stefan Scherer, Zakia Hammal, Ying Yang, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Jeffrey Cohn

 

Touching the Void - Introducing CoST: Corpus of Social Touch
Merel M. Jung, Ronald Poppe, Mannes Poel, and Dirk K. J. Heylen

 

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Personalized Facial Emotion Recognition
Gloria Zen, Enver Sangineto, Elisa Ricci, and Nicu Sebe

 

Predicting Influential Statements in Group Discussions using Speech and Head Motion Information
Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano, Yuki Hayashi, Hung-Hsuan Hung, and Shogo Okada

 

The relation of eye gaze and face pose: Potential impact on speech recognition
Malcolm Slaney, Andreas Stolcke and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

 

Speech-Driven Animation Constrained by Appropriate Discourse Functions
Najmeh Sadoughi, Yang Liu, and Carlos Busso

 

Many Fingers Make Light Work: Non-Visual Capacitive Surface Exploration
Martin Halvey and Andy Crossan

 

Multimodal Interaction History and its use in Error Detection and Recovery
Felix Schussel, Frank Honold, Miriam Schmidt, Nikola Bubalo, Michael Weber, and Anke Huckauf

 

Gesture Heatmaps: Understanding Gesture Performance with Colorful Visualizations
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Lisa Anthony, and Jacob O. Wobbrock

 

Personal Aesthetics for Soft Biometrics: a Generative Multi-resolution Approach
Cristina Segalin, Alessandro Perina, and Marco Cristani

 

Statistical Analysis of Personality and Identity in Chats Using a Keylogging Platform
Giorgio Roffo, Cinzia Giorgetta, Roberta Ferrario, Walter Riviera, and Marco Cristani

 

Synchronising Physiological and Behavioural Sensors in a Driving Simulator
Ronnie Taib, Benjamin Itzstein, and Kun Yu

 

Data-Driven Model of Nonverbal Behavior for Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interactions
Henny Admoni and Brian Scassellati

 

Towards Automated Assessment of Public Speaking Skills Using Multimodal Cues
Lei Chen, Gary Feng, Jilliam Joe, Chee Wee Leong, Christopher Kitchen, and Chong Min Lee

 

Increasing Customers' Attention using Implicit and Explicit Interaction in Urban Advertisement
Matthias Woelfel and Luigi Bucchino

 

System for Presenting and Creating Smell Effects to Video
Risa Suzuki, Shutaro Homma, Eri Matsuura, and Ken-ichi Okada

 

CrossMotion: Fusing Device and Image Motion for User Identification, Tracking and Device Association
Andrew Wilson and Hrvoje Benko

 

Understanding Users' Perceived Difficulty of Multi-Touch Gesture Articulation
Yosra Rekik, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, and Laurent Grisoni

 

A Multimodal Context-based Approach for Distress Assessment
Sayan Ghosh, Moitreya Chatterjee, and Louis-Philippe Morency

 

Exploring a Model of Gaze for Grounding in Multimodal HRI
Gregor Mehlmann, Kathrin Janowski, Tobias Baur, Markus Haring, Elisabeth Andre, and Patrick Gebhard

 

Predicting Learning and Engagement in Tutorial Dialogue: A Personality-Based Model
Alexandria Katarina Vail, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Joseph B. Wiggins, James C. Lester, and Kristy Elizabeth Boyer

 

Eye gaze for spoken language understanding in multi-modal conversational interactions
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Malcolm Slaney, Asli Celikyilmaz, and Larry Heck

 

SoundFlex: Designing Audio to Guide Interactions with Shape-Retaining Deformable Interfaces
Koray Tahiroglu, Thomas Svedstrom, Valtteri Wikstrom, Simon Overstall, Johan Kildal, and Teemu Ahmaniemi

 

Investigating Intrusiveness of Workload Adaptation
Felix Putze and Tanja Schultz

18:00-20:00

Welcome Reception

Vedat Yerlici Conference Hall

Friday, 14 November 2014

All sessions will take place in the Albert Long Hall

9:00

Keynote 2: Smart Multimodal Interaction Through Big Data
Cafer Tosun
Session Chair: Louis-Philippe Morency

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Oral Session 3: Affect and Cognitive Modeling
Session Chair: Sharon Oviatt

10:30

Natural Communication about Uncertainties in Situated Interaction
Tomislav Pejsa, Dan Bohus, Michael Cohen, Chit Saw, James Mahoney and Eric Horvitz

10:55

The SWELL Knowledge Work Dataset for Stress and User Modeling Research
Saskia Koldijk, Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Mark Neerincx and Wessel Kraaij

11:20

Rhythmic body movements of laughter
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Maurizio Mancini, Yu Ding, Catherine Pelachaud and Gualtiero Volpe

11:45

Automatic blinking detection towards stress discovery
Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Marta Marron-Romera, Daniel Pizarro-Perez and Daniel Gatica-Perez

12:00

Lunch
Bogaziçi University, South Campus

13:30-15:00

Oral Session 4: Nonverbal Behaviors 
Session Chair: Bülent Sankur

13:30

* Mid-air Authentication Gestures: An Exploration of Authentication based on Palm and Finger Motions
Ilhan Aslan, Andreas Uhl, Alexander Meschtscherjakov and Manfred Tscheligi

13:55

* Automatic Detection of Naturalistic Hand-over-Face Gesture Descriptors
Marwa Mahmoud, Tadas Baltrusaitis and Peter Robinson

14:20

Capturing Upper Body Motion in Conversation: an Appearance Quasi-Invariant Approach
Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Marta Marron-Romera, Daniel Pizarro-Perez and Daniel Gatica-Perez

14:45

User independent gaze estimation by exploiting similarity measures in the eye pair appearance eigenspace  
Nanxiang Li and Carlos Busso

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-16:45

Doctoral Spotlight Session 
Session Chair: Marco Cristani

Exploring Multimodality for Translator-Computer Interaction
Julián Zapata

Towards social touch intelligence: developing a robust system for automatic touch recognition
Merel Jung

Facial Expression Analysis for Estimating Pain in Clinical Settings
Karan Sikka

Realizing Robust Human-Robot Interaction under Real Environments with Noises
Takaaki Sugiyama

 

Speaker- and Corpus-Independent Methods for Affect Classification in Computational Paralinguistics
Heysem Kaya

 

The Impact of Changing Communication Practices
Ailbhe Finnerty

 

Multi-Resident Human Behaviour Identification in Ambient Assisted Living Environments
Hande Alemdar

 

Gaze-Based Proactive User Interface for Pen-Based Systems
Cagla Cig

 

Appearance Based User-Independent Gaze Estimation
Nanxiang Li

 

Affective Analysis of Abstract Paintings Using Statistical Analysis and Art Theory
Andreza Sartori

 

The Secret Language of Our Body - Affect and Personality Recognition Using Physiological Signals
Julia Wache

 

Perceptions of interpersonal behavior are influenced by gender, facial expression intensity, and head pose
Jeffrey M. Girard

 

Authoring Communicative Behaviors for Situated, Embodied Characters
Tomislav Pejsa

 

Multimodal Analysis and Modeling of Nonverbal Behaviors during Tutoring
Joseph Grafsgaard

16:45-17:30

Grand Challenge Overviews 
Session Chairs: Hatice Gunes and Dirk Heylen

Third Multimodal Learning Analytics Workshop and Grand Challenges
Xavier Ochoa, Marcelo Worsley, Katherine Chiluiza and Saturnino Luz

 

The Second Emotion Recognition In The Wild Challenge and Workshop (EmotiW) 2014 Challenge
Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi, Karan Sikka and Tom Gedeon

 

MAPTRAITS'14 - Personality Mapping Challenge and Workshop 2014
Hatice Gunes, Björn Schuller, Oya Celiktutan, Evangelos Sariyanidi and Florian Eyben

17:30-18:15

ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Awardee's Keynote: Beyond Multimodal Interfaces: Designing Computers that Stimulate Human Thought

Sharon Oviatt
Session Chairs: Daniel Gatica-Perez

19:00

Banquet – Portaxe Shine, Baltalimani
Buses will be leaving at 18:30 (tentative) from the South Campus

Saturday, 15 November 2014

All sessions will take place in the Albert Long Hall. 
 

09:00

Keynote 3: Computation of Emotions

Peter Robinson

Session Chair: Oya Aran

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:10

Oral Session 5: Mobile and Urban Interaction
Session Chair: Metin Sezgin

10:30

Non-Visual Navigation Using Combined Audio Music and Haptic Cues (1647)
Emily Fujimoto and Matthew Turk

10:55

Tactile Feedback for Above-Device Gesture Interfaces: Adding Touch to Touchless Interactions (2941)
Euan Freeman, Stephen Brewster and Vuokko Lantz

11:20

Once Upon a Crime: Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data (2031)
Andrey Bogomolov, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Nuria Oliver, Fabio Pianesi and Alex Pentland 

11:45

Impact of Coordinate Systems on 3D Manipulations in Mobile Augmented Reality (1118)
Philipp Tiefenbacher, Steven Wichert, Daniel Merget and Gerhard Rigoll

12:00

Lunch
Bogaziçi University, South Campus

13:30-15:00

Oral Session 6: Healthcare and Assistive Technologies
Session Chair: Dan Bohus

13:30

* Digital Reading Support for The Blind by Multimodal Interaction (2458)
Yasmine El-Glaly and Francis Quek

13:55

Measuring child visual attention using markerless head tracking from color and depth sensing cameras (1160)
Jonathan Bidwell, Irfan Essa, Agata Rozga and Gregory Abowd

14:20

Bi-Modal Detection of Painful Reaching for Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Systems (2347)
Temitayo Olugbade, Hane Aung, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Nicolai Marquardt and Amanda Williams

14:35-15:05

Break

15:05-16:05

Keynote 4: A World without Barriers: Connecting the World across Languages, Distances and Media

Alexander Waibel

Session Chair: Jeffrey Cohn

16:05-17:15

ICMI Town Hall Meeting

Session Chair: Albert Ali Salah

Sunday, 16 November 2014

All workshops will take place in South Campus of Bogazici University. You can find a detailed map of the buildings here.

08:50-17:00

Int. Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction

Chairs: Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, and Ron Petrick

Invited Speakers: Daniel Gatica-Perez, Ryo Ishii

Program available as pdf here

Place: Albert Long Hall

09:00-17:30

Int. Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Multiparty, Multimodal Interactions

Chairs: Samer Al Moubayed, Dan Bohus, Anna Esposito, Dirk Heylen, Maria Koutsombogera, Harris Papageorgiou, and Gabriel Skantze

Invited Speaker: Yukiko Nakano

Program available as pdf here

Place: Demir Demirgil Hall

09:20-17:00

Int. Workshop on Roadmapping the Future of Multimodal Interaction Research including Business

Chairs: Dirk Heylen, and Alessandro Vinciarelli

Program available as pdf here

Place: Rectorate Hall

09:00-17:30

2nd Int. Workshop on “Emotion representations and modelling in Human Computer Interaction systems” (ERM4HCI 2014)

Chairs: Kim Hartmann, Klaus Scherer, Ronald Böck, and Björn Schuller

Program available as pdf here

Place: Kriton Curi

10:30-18:00

The 7th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Eye-Gaze and Multimodality

Chairs: Hung-Hsuan Huang, Roman Bednarik, Kristiina Jokinen, and Yukiko Nakano

Invited Speaker: Dan Bohus

Program available as pdf here

Place: Ozger Arnas 

 

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