ICMI 2020 Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior

Motivation

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.

Workshop Topics

Topics centered around the theme of understanding child behaviour, including but not limited to:

    • Systems

      • Affective behaviour analysis and elicitation for children

      • Longitudinal monitoring of children

      • Acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech

    • Applications

      • VR, AR, and wearable interfaces for children

    • Theory

      • Linking child behaviour across modalities

      • Perspectives on parent-child interactive behaviour

    • Focus Theme Challenges: Behavior analysis for children

      • Monitoring children during social interactions

      • Child speech development delay in different developmental disorders

      • Detection of abusive and aggressive behaviours, cyberbullying

      • Privacy and ethics of multimedia access for children

      • Databases collected from children

      • Investigations into children's interaction with multimedia content


Important Dates

    • Paper submission: August 12, 2020

    • Paper notification: August 24, 2020

    • Camera-ready paper submission: September 7, 2020

    • Presenting at main conference: October 29, 2020