Organizing Committee

General Chairs

• Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois, USA)
• Enrique Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Program Chairs

• Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Louis-Philippe Morency (Univ. Southern California, USA)
• Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)

Demo Chairs

• Kazuhiro Otsuka (NTT Communication Science Labs, Japan)
• Jordi Vitrià (UB/CVC, Barcelona, Spain)

Workshop Chairs

• Fernando de la Torre (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)

Publication Chair

• Jose Oncina (University of Alicante, Spain)

Student & Doctoral Spotlight Chair

• Li Deng (Microsoft Research and Univ. of Washington)
• Stefanie Tellex (MIT CSAIL, USA)

Sponsorship Chair

• Nuria Oliver (Telefónica I+D, Spain)

Publicity Chair

• Helen Mei-Ling Meng (CUHK, Hong Kong)

Local Organization Chair

• Luisa Micó (University of Alicante, Spain)

Treasurer

• Jorge Calera (University of Alicante, Spain)

Local organizers

• Xavier Anguera (Telefónica I+D, Spain)
• Antonio Javier Gallego Sánchez (University of Alicante, Spain) (Webmaster)
• Ida Hui (CUHK, Hong Kong)
• Jose Manuel Iñesta (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Alejandro Toselli (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Area Chairs

• Tilman Becker (DFKI)
• Trevor Darrell (UC Berkeley / ICSI)
• Karrie Karahalios (UIUC)
• Antonio Krueger (DFKI / Saarland University)
• Anton Nijholt (University of Twente)
• Jean-Marc Odobez (Idiap Research Institute)
• Yiannis Patras (Queen Mary University of London)
• Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS / TELECOM ParisTech)
• Filiberto Pla (University Jaume I)
• Alex Potamianos (Technical University of Crete)
• Francis Quek (Virginia Tech)
• Adriana Tapus (ENSTA-ParisTech)
• Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow)
• Jie Yang (CMU)
• Massimo Zancanaro (FBK)

Advisory Board

• Samy Benjio (Google)
• Hervé Bourlard (IDIAP, Switzerland)
• Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh)
• James L. Crowley (INRIA Grenoble Rhone Alpes, France)
• Trevor Darrell (UCB/ICSI, USA)
• Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Yuri Ivanov (MERL, USA)
• Kenji Mase (University of Nagoya, Japan)
• Sharon Oviatt (Incaa Designs, USA)
• Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS, France)
• Fabio Pianesi (FBK, Trento, Italy)
• Andrei Popescu Belis (IDIAP, Switzerland)
• Alex Potamianos (TUC,Greece)
• Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
• Rainer Stiefelhagen (KIT & Fraunhofer IITB, Germany)
• Matthew Turk (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
• Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany)
• Jie Yang (Carnegie Mellon Universiy, USA)

Local Committee and volunteers

• Jehane Beldjelti (University of Alicante, Spain)
• José Francisco Bernabeu Briones (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Olimpia Mas Martínez (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Javier Navarrete Sánchez (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Tomás Pérez García (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Carlos Pérez Sancho (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Antonio Pertusa Ibáñez (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Pedro José Ponce de León Amador (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Juan Ramon Rico (University of Alicante, Spain)
• Javier Sober Mira (University of Alicante, Spain)

Program Committee

• Amir Aly (PHD Researcher, France)
• Lisa Anthony (UMBC Information Systems, United States)
• Girouard Audrey (Queen's University, Canada)
• Sileye Ba (Ecole Nationale des Telecommunication de Bretagne, France)
• Joan-Isaac Biel (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Lepri Bruno (MIT, USA)
• Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Nehterlands)
• Carlos Busso (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
• Prof. Nick Campbell (TCD, Ireland)
• Jorge Cardoso (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
• Ginevra Castellano (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
• Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA)
• Gokul Chittaranjan (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Mario Christoudias (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Henriette Cramer (Mobile Life @ SICS, Sweden)
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (AT&T Labs - Research, Inc., USA)
• Trinh Minh Tri do (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Bruno Dumas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Patrick Ehlen (AT&T, USA)
• Ricci Elisa (University of Perugia, Italy)
• Sibylle Enz (University Bamberg, Germany)
• Bailly Gerard (GIPSA-Lab, France)
• Hatice Gunes (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• Joakim Gustafson (KTH, Sweden)
• Hayrettin Gürkök (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Norihiro Hagita (ATR, Japan)
• Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Hung Hayley (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Jeffrey Ho (University of Florida, USA)
• Kotsia Irene (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
• Dinesh Babu Jayagopi (IDIAP, Switzerland)
• Schoening Johannes (DFKI, Germany)
• Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
• Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Kostas Karpouzis (Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab, NTUA)
• Taemie Kim (MIT Media Lab, USA)
• Simon King (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Sander Koelstra (QMUL, UK)
• Denis Lalanne (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
• Luis Leiva (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática ITI, Spain)
• Katrin Lohan (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• Fabien Lotte (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France)
• Saturnino Luz (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Markus Löckelt (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
• Mathew Magimai Doss (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Poel Mannes (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Cavazza Marc (Teesside University, UK)
• David Masip (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
• Eskenazi Maxine (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Chris Mccool (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• David McGookin (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
• Peter W. McOwan (Queen Mary, UK)
• Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
• Rohs Michael (University of Munich, Germany)
• Yukiko Nakano (Seikei University, Japan)
• Femke Nijboer (University Twente, the Netherlands)
• Yoshimasa Ohmoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Daniel Olguin Olguin (MIT Media Lab, USA)
• Brdiczka Oliver (Palo Alto Research Center PARC, USA)
• Nuria Oliver (microsoft research, USA)
• Tim Paek (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Hari Parthasarathi (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Olivier Patrick (Newcastle University, UK)
• Fabio Pianesi (Bruno Kessler Foundation FBK -irst, Italy)
• Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Ronald Poppe (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Benjamin Poppinga (OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany)
• Gerasimos Potamianos (IBM, USA)
• Thierry Pun (University of Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland)
• Liu Qiong (FXPAL, US)
• Antoine Raux (Honda Research Institute USA, United States)
• Norbert Reithinger (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
• Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Laurel D. Riek (University of Notre Dame, USA)
• Amir Sadeghipour (Bielefeld University, Germany)
• Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey)
• Maha Salem (Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Germany)
• Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
• Yohichi Sato (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Gianluca Schiavo (FBK-irst, Italy)
• Bjoern Schuller (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
• Anirudh Sharma (HP Labs India)
• Candace Sidner (BAE Systems AIT, USA)
• Paris Smaragdis (Adobe Systems Inc, USA)
• Erin Solovey (Tufts University, USA)
• Dunne Stephen (Starlab, Spain)
• Fairclough Stephen (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
• Rainer Stiefelhagen (Universität Karlsruhe TH, Germany)
• Yasuyuki Sumi (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)
• Dag Sverre Syrdal (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
• Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Adriana Tapus (ENSTA-ParisTech)
• Mariet Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Alejandro Héctor Toselli (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
• Matthew Turk (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
• Jan van Erp (TNO Human Factors, The Netherlands)
• Giovanna Varni (InfoMus Lab, DIST-University of Genoa, Italy)
• Radu-Daniel Vatavu (University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, Romania)
• Gualtiero Volpe (DIST - University of Genova, Italy)
• Astrid von der Pütten (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Michael Walters (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
• Julie Rico Williamson (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Hürst Wolfgang (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
• Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California at Merced, USA)
• Chen Yu (Indiana University, USA)
• Thorsten Zander
• Liang-Guo Zhang (University of Oulu, Finland)