Further Activities


Guest Editing


  • Guest Editor (together with Eva Hudlicka) of International Journal of Synthetic Emotions , Special Issue on Benefits and Limitations of Continuous Representations of Emotions in Affective Computing. See the Call for Papers for details.


    Editorial Board


  • International Journal of Computer Vision & Signal Processing (IJCVSP). See the Call for Papers for further details.

  • Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, D. Gokcay & G. Yildirim (Eds.), IGI Global, 2011.



    • Workshop Organisation


  • Workshop chair (together with B. Schuller, M. Pantic, and R. Cowie) of EmoSPACE , 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE , in conjunction with IEEE FG 2011 Santa Barbara, California, USA, 24/25 March 2011.


    Reviewing papers for journals


  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.


  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE Signal Processing Society).


  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part B (IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society).


  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE Signal Processing Society).


  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.


  • Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier).


  • Pattern Recognition (Elsevier).


  • Information Fusion Journal (Elsevier).


  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) (ACM).


  • EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (Hindawi).


  • Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces (Springer).


  • Journal of Machine Vision and Applications (Springer).


  • Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering (Wiley).


  • International Journal of Robotics and Automation (ACTA).


  • Journal of The Franklin Institute: Engineering and Applied Mathematics (Elsevier).



    • Conference & Workshop Program Committee Member


  • ACM ICMI 2011, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Alicante, Spain, Nov. 14-18, 2011.

  • EmoGames 2011, ACII 2011 Workshop: Emotion in Games, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Oct. 9, 2011.

  • IWEC-2011, 2nd International Workshop on Empathic Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 17 Oct. 2011.

  • AVEC 2011, 1st International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, organised in conjunction with ACII 2011, Memphis, TN, USA, 9 Oct. 2011.

  • CVPR4HB 2011, Fourth IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, organised in conjunction with CVPR 2011, Colorado Springs, USA, June 25 2011.

  • SSP 2011, IEEE SMC Special session on Social Signal Processing, organised in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9-12 October 2011.

  • EPIA 2011, The 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 10-13 2011.

  • ACII 2011, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Oct. 9-12, 2011.

  • IEEE ICME 2011, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011.

  • Cognition and AI, Special Track at the 24rd International FLAIRS Conference in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Florida, USA, May 2011.

  • FERA 2011, The Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, in conjunction with the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, California, USA, March 2011.

  • DICTA 2010, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 1-3 Dec. 2010.

  • ICMI 2010, the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Beijing ,China, November 8-12, 2010.

  • Measuring Behavior 2010, the 7th Int. Conf. on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 24 - 27 August 2010.

  • AFFINE 2010, the 3rd Workshop on Affective Multimodal Interaction in Natural Environments, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy, 25-29 October 2010.

  • BCS HCI 2010, the 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, 6th-10th September 2010.

  • IEEE ICME 2010, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Singapore, July 19-23, 2010.

  • ISCIS 2010, the 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, London, UK, 22-24 September 2010.

  • SIU 2010, IEEE 18.Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Diyarbakir, Turkey, 22-24 April, 2010.

  • DICTA 2009, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2009.

  • ACM ICMI 2009, the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Cambridge, MA, USA, Nov. 2009.

  • BCS HCI 2009, The 23rd BCS conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cambridge, U.K., 2009.

  • ACII 2009, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2009.

  • ACII 2009 Doctoral Consortium, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2009.

  • IEEE SMC 2008, The IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Singapore, Oct. 2008.

  • DICTA 2008, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2008.

  • ECAG08, Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition , Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sep. 2008.

  • CHI 2008, The 26th ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Florence, Italy, Apr. 2008.

  • DICTA 2007, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 2007.

  • ACM ICMI 2007, the 9th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 2007.

  • ACII 2007, the Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2007.

  • VisHCI 2006, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI, Canberra, Australia, Nov. 2006.

  • IEEE AVSS 2006, International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 2006.

  • IEEE ICIP 2005, International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, Sep. 2005.

  • ICITA 2004, Second International Conference on Information Technology & Applications, Harbin, China, Jan. 2004.



    • Society/Network Membership


  • Member of IEEE since 1999.

  • Member of ACM since 2004.

  • Member of IEEE Women in Engineering.

  • Member of HCSNet, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Network in Human Communication Sciences since 2005.

  • Member of HUMAINE Portal , the EU-funded network of excellence for research on emotions and Human-Machine Interaction.



    • Community Related


    • 100 Women, 100 Visions

      A series of 100 portraits, celebrating women scientists and engineers from all academic levels at Imperial College London, in support of International Women's Day (March 2009).

    • World Wide Welfare, Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) Donations in Kind program
      We, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, have been affecting real-world change by donating used computers and monitors to the communities in need in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao (October 2008).

    • Preparing a radio program for SBS ,the Special Broadcasting Service of Australia, in Turkish (2003-2008)

      The photo is taken during Maja Jupiter's visit to our live program in SBS,  2004.

      The photo is taken during our radio show at the Auburn Festival,  23 Sep. 2006.

       

    • Singing with the "Blue Stocking Choir" at UTS.  The photo is taken during our performance at the In-fusion Festival 2005,  21 Sep. 2005, UTS.

     

     

     


    Iternational Student Exchange for Technical Experience


    • AIESEC internship- Sydney, Australia(2002)

    • IAESTE internship- Zurich, Switzerland (2000).