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01-10-2012 | Editorial

Social signals: from theory to applications

Authors: Isabella Poggi, Francesca D’Errico, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Special Issue 2/2012

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The Special Issue Editorial introduces the research milieu in which Social Signal Processing originates, by merging computer scientists and social scientists and giving rise to this field in parallel with Human–Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, and Embodied Conversational Agents, all similarly characterized by high interdisciplinarity, stress on multimodality of communication, and the continuous loop from theory to simulation and application. Some frameworks of the cognitive and social processes underlying social signals are identified as reference points (Theory of Mind and Intersubjectivity, mirror neurons, and the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of communication), while three dichotomies (automatic vs. controlled, individualistic vs. intersubjective, and meaning vs. influence) are singled out as leads to navigate within the theoretical and applicative studies presented in the Special Issue.

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Title: Social signals: from theory to applications
Authors: Isabella Poggi
Francesca D’Errico
Alessandro Vinciarelli
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Cognitive Processing / Issue Special Issue 2/2012
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-012-0514-4

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