The goal of Social Signal Processing (SSP) is to make computers socially aware and adaptable, capable of sensing and responding appropriately to users’ social signals such as interest, politeness, agreement, disagreement, etc. Social signals are manifested through a multiplicity of non-verbal behavioral cues including facial expressions, body postures and gestures, and vocal outbursts like laughter, that can be automatically analyzed by technologies of signal processing including computer vision and audio processing, and automatically generated by technologies of signal synthesis such as face animation and speech synthesis. Application of the research on SSP include artificial agents and companions, human-computer interfaces, ambient intelligence, assisted living, entertainment, education, social skills training, and multimedia indexing.
SSP is a multidisciplinary venture, with topics such as computer vision, speech processing, machine learning, computer graphics, virtual agents, and HCI. The IEEE SMC TC on SSP aims to be the unifying forum that brings together scientists from this wide range of theoretical and application areas whose work impacts the machine analysis and synthesis of social signals.

In the past decade, many scattered fields have presented their SSP related research at various conferences aimed at topics such as computer vision, speech processing, machine learning, computer graphics, virtual agents, and HCI. It is time to bring all these fields together to strengthen the research into what is inherently a multi-disciplinary problem. Why don’t you join us, and work together with us to promote this new emerging field?
The Technical Committee on Social Signal Processing provides opportunities to continue professional and personal development. Let’s work together to:

Networking opportunities with peers and experts in the field

The design and development of the SMC’s annual conference program

Participation in interesting conferences and workshops

Organize conferences related to SSP.

The development of special issues of the Human-Machine Systems Transactions

The exchange of research ideas and the sharing of research resources

Opportunities for making friends from different regions of the world

Investigate the intricate ways that humans interact with each other and with the machines we create, and build a new world where man and machine interact seamlessly.