Child–Computer Interaction and Multimodal Child Behavior Analysis
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2023) | Viewed by 4147
Special Issue Editors
Interests: affective computing; computational paralinguistics; speech emotion recognition; explainable machine learning
Interests: Natural Language Understanding (NLU); AI fairness, explainability and interpretability
Interests: sound processing; computational paralinguistics; speech and speaker recognition; machine learning; music processing; pattern recognition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Child behavior is a topic of wide scientific interest among many different disciplines, including social and behavioral 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 Special Issue, we aim to connect these fields and fill the gaps between science and technological capabilities to address topics such as the use of AI (e.g., audio, visual, textual signal processing and machine learning) to better understand and model child behavioral and developmental processes, challenges and opportunities in large-scale child behavior analysis, the implementation of explainable ML/AI on sensitive child data, etc. We also welcome contributions on new child-behavior-related multimodal corpora and experimental results on them.
The SI themes include but are not limited to:
- Systems
- Affective behavior 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;
- Machine learning for education;
- Child monitoring in classrooms;
- Theory
- Linking child behavior across modalities;
- Perspectives on parent–child interactive behavior;
- 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 behaviors, cyberbullying;
- Privacy and ethics of multimedia access for children;
- Databases collected from children;
- Investigations into children’s interaction with multimedia content;
- Kids, families, and COVID-19 (healthcare concerns, education, mental health risks, missing meals, disproportion concerns)
- Behavior and well-being related to the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Pandemic pain points and the urgent need to respond by leveraging technology;
- Meeting the needs of children and families now and following the pandemic;
- Relevant data sources.
Dr. Heysem Kaya
Dr. Maryam Najafian
Dr. Saeid Safavi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- child–computer interaction
- uni/multi-modal child behavior analysis
- signal processing for child behavior understanding
- automated child healthcare/well-being monitoring
- educational courseware/games for children
- psychological/psychiatric analyses of child behavior
