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LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018

27 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2018
PARIS

ABOUT

Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.

Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007), Berlin (2009), Dublin (2012) and Enschede (2015), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Paris, France in September 2018.


The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations. The workshop consists of invited talks, oral and poster presentations of ongoing research.

Programme

TimeTitle
Thursday 27th September 2018
9:30Introduction
9:45 – 10:45Sophie Scott: Voluntary and involuntary mechanisms in laughter production and perception.
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break



11:15 – 12:45 
Session 1
11:15 – 11:45 
Richard Ogden: The actions of peripheral linguistic objects: Clicks. 

11:45 – 12:15 
Anna Canal Garcia, Marine Collery, Velisarios Miloulis, Zofia Malisz: 
Classification and clustering of clicks, breathing and silences within speech pauses. 

12:15 – 12:45 
Jürgen Trouvain: On Breath Noises – A Short Review.
12:45 – 14:15 
Lunch






14:15 – 15:30
Poster Session
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte: 
Cooperating with a smiling avatar: when face and voice matter.

Vanessa Pope, Rebecca Stewart, Elaine Chew:
Audience Laughter Distribution in Live Stand-up Comedy.

Isabella Poggi, Alessandro Ansani, Christian Cecconi: 
Sighs in everyday and political communication.

Kevin El Haddad, Noé Tits, Thierry Dutoit: 
Annotating Nonverbal Conversation Expressions in Interaction Datasets.

Michel-Pierre Jansen, Khiet Truong, Dirk Heylen: 
The MULAI Corpus: Multimodal Recordings of Spontaneous Laughter in Dyadic Interaction.
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break



16:00 – 17:30
Session 2
16:00 – 16:30 
Pablo Arias, Pascal Belin, Jean-Julien Aucouturier: Hearing smiles and smiling back.

16:30 – 17:00 
Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Jonathan Ginzburg: Clarifying Laughter.

17:00 – 17:30 
Susanne Fuchs, Tamara Rathcke:
Laugh is in the air? Physiological analysis of laughter as a correlate of attraction during speed dating.
Dinner
Friday 28th September 2018
9:30 – 10:30Gary McKeown: The underdetermined nature of laughter.
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break






11:00 – 13:00
Session 3
11:00 – 11:30
Reshmashree B Kantharaju, Fabien Ringeval, Laurent Besacier: 
Automatic prediction of affective laughter from audiovisual data. 

11:30 – 12:00
Magdalena Rychlowska, Gary McKeown, Ian Sneddon, and William Curran: 
Not only decibels: Exploring human judgements of laughter intensity.

12:00 – 12:30
Kevin El Haddad, Hüseyin Çakmak, Thierry Dutoit:
A Study of the Perception of Laughter Intensity AND Laughter Intensity Level Estimation from Acoustic Features. 

12:30 – 13:00
Jan Michalsky, Heike Schoormann: 
Phonetic entrainment of laughter in dating conversations: On the effects of perceived attractiveness and conversational quality.
Lunch

PROCEEDINGS

Attendees are asked to register by sending an email with the following information:

Name, Institution, Food preferences.


(Registration is free of charge. Lunches, coffee breaks and dinner will be provided)

Invited Speakers

Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee:

Reshmashree B Kantharaju
ISIR, Sorbonne University


Venue

ISIR : Institut des Systèmes Intelligents
et de Robotique
http://www.isir.upmc.fr


Contact 

Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS – ISIR,
Sorbonne University catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr

Address

4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05
Tél. 01 44 27 44 27



Access

Metro, lignes 7 et 10 (station Jussieu)
Bus 89 et 67 (station Jussieu)


Mobirise

Venue

Sorbonne University – Campus University Pierre and Marie Curie
4 place Jussieu, 
75005 Paris, France
ROOM: 304, between towers 65 – 66;
Entrance tower: 65
Metro stations: Jussieu

To reach the Workshop venue from any place of the city, we suggest to make use of the public transportations. General information about public transportations in Paris are available on the website of the RATP. You can also directly plan public transportation itineraries using the following website: 
http://www.ratp.fr/itineraires/fr/ratp/recherche-avancee.

Detailed instructions to reach the symposium venue from the international airports by public transportation (train, bus) or by taxi are provided below on this page.

Transport to and from
Charles de Gaulle airport.

Train and subway

Charles de Gaulle Airport is well-served by the transportation network, so you should have no problems getting to the city. By the RER B (follow the sign "Paris by train" in the airport; one way ticket cost around €10), by taxi (around €60). Both Air France and SNCF run buses into the centre of Paris, for between €10 and €20. 

Trains/RER are quicker than buses and perhaps more convenient especially from Aérogare 2, which gets you to central Paris and to the RER/Métro complex in around 40 minutes. There are seven stops on RER-B within Paris; four of these offer connections (fr. correspondances) to certain métro lines, as follows:

• Cité-Universitaire

• Denfert-Rochereau (métro lines 4 & 6)

• Port-Royal

• Luxembourg

• St-Michel Notre-Dame (métro lines 4 & 10; RER line C)

• Châtelet-Les Halles (métro lines 1, 4, 7, 11, & 14; RER lines A & D)

• Gare du Nord (métro lines 2, 4, & 5; RER lines D & E)

So, in summary, if you want to use public transportation from the Airport, you should follow the sign "Paris by train" at the airport, and take the RER B train to Paris. If you're going directly to Sorbonne University, stop at Saint-Michel and take line 10 to Jussieu. You can plan other public transportation itineraries using the following website: http://www.ratp.fr/itineraires/fr/ratp/recherche-avancee.  


Taxi

The rates, which are regulated by the Paris Prefect of Police, and vary according to the time of day and the zone of travel (urban, suburban, and beyond). In normal traffic and excluding supplements, expect a fare of about €60. The distance from Roissy/CDG, central Paris (75001) is approximately 40 km (25 miles). Consult travel times for each "arrondissement".

Transport to and from
Orly airport

Train and subway

There are a number of options for transferring from Orly airport to the City of Paris, or to Roissy/CDG for connections with international flights. A few will also offer transport to certain suburbs.

The airport is also indirectly connected to Paris downtown by the Orlyval (automatic métro), a short 8-minute hop to the RER station 'Antony' in the suburb of Arcueil. From there you can take the RER-B rail line (regional métro system) north, directly into the heart of Paris. The journey takes about 35 minutes to reach the Châtelet-Les Halles RER/métro complex (1st arrondissement). There are seven stops on RER-B within Paris; four of these offer connections (fr. correspondances) to certain métro lines, as follows:

• Cité-Universitaire

• Denfert-Rochereau (métro lines 4 & 6)

• Port-Royal • Luxembourg

• St-Michel Notre-Dame (métro lines 4 & 10; RER line C)

• Châtelet-Les Halles (métro lines 1, 4, 7, 11, & 14; RER lines A & D)

• Gare du Nord (métro lines 2, 4, & 5; RER lines D & E)

Orlyval operates between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., leaving every 4 to 7 minutes from each Orly terminal (Orly Sud and Orly Ouest). Tickets for this service can be purchased in all métro and RER stations, and also at a special Orlyval sales desk in Orly airport.

The one-way Orlyval fare is €7.60 for adults and €3.80 for children (ages 4-10) just to reach the 'Antony' station, or €9.85 for adults and €4.90 for children to head into the center of Paris - rather expensive in light of the short distance involved! Another valid fare, when purchased for Zones 1-4, is the  Paris Visite pass (1, 2, 3 or 5 days) - a much better choice if you'll be traveling often on the métro and/or buses during your stay.


Taxi

Since Orly is the closest airport to Paris, taxis can be a quick - if somewhat expensive - way to go. We do not recommend this method at rush hour, since fares can mount quickly while stuck in traffic!

The rates, which are regulated by the Paris Prefect of Police, vary according to the time of day and the zone of travel (urban, suburban, and beyond). In normal traffic and excluding supplements, expect a fare between Orly Airport and Paris to range from €30 to €45, depending on the "arrondissement".

In addition to the metered amount, there is a supplement of about €1 for each piece of luggage, as well as €2.70 for a fourth passenger. Families traveling with infants should keep in mind that taxis will not have a child seat available.

When you phone for a taxi to return from Paris back to the airport, the meter starts running from the point where the taxi was dispatched - which could be anywhere in the city. Consequently, the fare showing on the meter may already be €7-10 by the time you board the vehicle at your hotel.

The distance from Orly to central Paris (75001) is roughly 19 km or 12 miles (consult travel times for each "arrondissement").

Accomodation

The symposium does not provide any special arrangement for the accommodation. The Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital La Pitié Salpétrière, is located on the border between the Quartier Latin (Fifth arrondissement) and the Thirteenth arrondissement. The Quartier Latin, where there is also the main campus of Université Pierre et Marie Curie, La Sorbonne, the Collège de France and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, is a living area with a lot of hotels. There are also several hotels which are located near Place d'Italie, at the beginning of the thirteenth arrondissement, near Hôpital La Pitié Salpétrière. Participants are invited to book their hotel by themselves from their favourite travel agency or booking sites.

Reservation websites :

Hotel in Paris  
Paris Hotels 

Below is a non exhaustive list of some hotels close or less close to the symposium site.

CategoryHotelMetro Station
More than 120 €
***Hôtel des ArènesPlace Monge/Jussieu
*** Hôtel des Nations St GermainPlace Monge/Jussieu
***Hôtel Acte VPlace Monge/Jussieu
***Jack's HotelPlace d'Italie
***Mercure Place d'Italie Place d'Italie
***Mercure Paris La Sorbonne Cluny-Sorbonne
***Hotel Sophie GermainDenfert-Rochereau
*** Best Western - Quartier LatinPlace Monge
*** Hotel Sorbonne Panthéon
***Grand Hotel des Gobelins Gobelins
From 100 € to 120 €
**IBIS TolbiacTolbiac or Place d'Italie
**Hôtel NeptunePlace d'Italie
**Campanile (several locations)
**Tim hotel Italie-BercyCorvisart
From 40 € to 100 €
(might be further away from the symposium venue)
-B & BMalakoff-Plateau
-Etap Hotel Porte d'OrléansPorte d'Orléans
-Centre RavelPorte de Vincennes
-Centre KellermanPorte d'Italie