Workshop description

This workshop focuses on how interactive, multimodal technology such as virtual agents or social robots can be used in training, technique, and treatment (motivational interviewing, remote medicine, etc.). 

People with socio-affective deficits have difficulties controlling their social behavior and also suffer from interpreting others’ social behavior. Behavioral training, such as social skills training, is used in medical settings. Patients are trained by a coach to experience social interaction and reduce social stress. In addition to behavioral training, cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing are also useful for understanding better and training social-affective interaction. All these methods are effective but expensive and difficult to access. 

This workshop is looking for works describing how multimodal technology can be used in healthcare for measuring and training social-affective interactions. Sensing technology analyzes users’ behaviors and physiological signals (heart rate, EEG, etc.). Various signal processing and machine learning methods can be used for such prediction tasks. Beyond sensing, it is also important to analyze human behaviors and model and implement training methods (e.g., by virtual agents, relevant scenarios, and design appropriate and personalized feedback about social skills performance). Such social signal processing and tools can be applied to measure and reduce social stress in everyday situations, including public speaking at schools and workplaces. Target populations include depression, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, and a much larger group of social pathological phenomena. 

In this workshop, we invite participants from academia, industry, or clinical settings to present and discuss the social-affective design of multimodal training for health.

Important dates

All deadlines are set at 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)

Workshop papers due: July 23, 2023

Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2023

Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2023  August 31, 2023

Workshop date: 9 October 2023

Organizers

Concact

Hiroki Tanaka

Email: hiroki-tan@is.naist.jp

Support

The TAPAS (Training Adapted Personalised Affective Social Skills with Cultural Virtual Agents) project supports this workshop. It is a collaborative project between Japan and France with support from JST CREST and from ANR. In the TAPAS project, we analyze human social skills dividing them into several steps and developing personalized training methods and systems.

Program Committee

• To be updated

Links of the previous workshops

• SAMIH2022

• SAMIH2021

• SAMIH2020