Alessandro Vinciarelli

I participated in an event organised by Prof Helen Minnis, a leading expert in child attachment issues, to show how Social AI can help to identify children experiencing attachment problems. The interesting connection between psychiatry and AI is that many tests used to detect mental health issues are designed to…

Early 2022, Substrata gave me the chance to talk about nonverbal communication and Social Signal Processing from both scientific and technological points of view. It was a very pleasant interaction with Daniel Buchuk about all aspects of my main scientific interest, the automatic analysis of behaviour during social interactions, and…

I had the pleasure and honour to give a talk at the Furhat Symposium on Social Robotics: It was an excellent mix of talks that spanned from the presentation of new social robots designed to be as easy as possible to use (Misty Robotics), to the illustration of how social…

I had the chance to participate as a speaker in “A Pint of Science”, a nice initiative aimed at discussing about science with the general public: https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/tech-for-a-better-future Speaking in a pub is definitely unusual, but the atmosphere was full of energy and genuine curiosity. My talk was about social intelligence…

I gave a keynote at the European Chatbot and Conversational AI Event: The event involves a large number of people that look at Conversational AI from an industrial and commercial point of view. This made the Question Answering particularly interesting because all points raised by the audience focused on the…

I had a chance to present the SOCIAL CDT to the students of The Data Lab involved in a Master Program in Data Science. It was a good opportunity to learn what PhD applicants worry about: The proposal: most students do not feel comfortable in writing a PhD proposal (not…

I had the great opportunity to participate in a roundtable on data science organised by Prof Bridgette Wessels (University of Glasgow) and Prof Lesley McCara (University of Edinburgh) in the framework of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Art for People and the Economy). The goal of the event was…

I had the great opportunity to give a keynote talk at the 2nd International Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behaviour: https://sites.google.com/view/wocbu/home The event was organised, among others, by Heysem Kaya at the University of Utrecht and it addressed the development of interactive technologies for children.…

It was my great pleasure to be one of the Doctoral Consortium Chairs at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, in collaboration with Iolanda Leite: https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfdc We received a large number of high quality submissions and we selected 8 articles covering all aspects of Multimodal Interaction, from the analysis…

It was a great pleasure and honour to be keynote speaker at the Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition: The talk revolved around Social Signal Processing, the domain I have been working on for the last 15 years. It was a pity not to be in condition to travel to Mexico…