Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal SynchrONy And infLuence

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal Synchrony -- INTEPERSONAL 2015 in conjunction with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2015), 9-13 November, in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. Recent advances in interaction technology and methodology fostered a shift of interest in investigating beyond the individual to social interaction of multiple individuals. Complex phenomena as interpersonal synchrony and influence started to be more and more investigated in order to provide a better understanding of human interaction and guidelines to design machines able to show refined social skills. The First International Workshop on Modeling INTERPERsonal SynchrONy (INTERPERSONAL 2015) is an occasion of excellence for researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss about the current knowledge and the open challenges on modeling, recognition, and synthesis of influence and interpersonal synchrony. Further, this Workshop is aimed at identifying new research challenges, fostering collaborations and future projects and contributing to define milestones in the social signal processing roadmap. INTERPERSONAL 2015 attracted research papers from various countries across the world, which were rigorously reviewed by the programme committee members. We take this opportunity to thank them for their professionalism and valuable comments they provided to the authors. This review process resulted in the acceptance of 7 papers for publication. The workshop includes the valuable keynote of Prof. Andrew Meltzoff: "Infants' Brains Are Wired to Learn from Culture: Implications for Social Robots"