SSPNet Workshop on Conflict and Communication

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract (400-600 words) by June 10th, 2013.
The abstracts must be sent via e-mail to the workshop chairs using the subject "Abstract for Workshop on Conflict and Communication":

Isabella Poggi
Francesca D'Errico
Alessandro.Vinciarelli

Acceptance will be notified on June 30th, 2013.

The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Multimodality
• Multimodal Corpora
• Social Signal Processing
• Phonetics, Prosody and Intonation
• Gesture
• Discourse Strategies
• Argumentation and Persuasion
• Deception
• Conversational Analysis
• Public Speaking
• Political Communication
• Persuasive Dialogue Systems
• Speech Analysis and Synthesis
• gesture and action recognition
• applications
• Embodied Conversational Agents
• Persuasive Technology

The Workshop is open to motivated researchers of any nationality, both in Social and Computing Sciences. To encourage young researchers' participation, grants are available for up to 8 PARTICIPANTS (maximum of 600 EUROS for accommodation, living and travel expenses) who present a work.

The authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper for potential inclusion in a book (to be confirmed) by November 30th, 2013. The abstracts must be sent via e-mail to the workshop chairs using the subject "Abstract for Workshop on Conflict and Communication": Instructions for full paper submission will provided after the selection of the abstracts.