Call for Papers

The widespread use of deception in offline and online communication suggests the need for methods to automatically detect deceit. The 2015 ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection (WMDD 2015), held in conjunction with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), will focus on multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to deception detection, as well as approaches that utilize a single modality with clear potential for integration with additional modalities. Deception detection has received an increasing amount of attention due to the significant growth of digital media, as well as increased ethical and security concerns. Earlier approaches to deception detection were mainly focused on law enforcement applications and relied on polygraph tests, which had proven to falsely accuse the innocent and free the guilty in multiple cases. More recent work on deception has expanded to other applications, such as deception detection in social media, interviews, or deception in day-by-day interactions. Moreover, recent research on deception detection has brought together scientists from fields as diverse as computational linguistics, speech processing, computer vision, psychology, and physiology, which makes this problem particularly appealing for multimodal processing.

Goal: The goal of this workshop is to provide the participants with a forum to foster the dissemination of ideas on computational and behavioral methodologies for deception detection.

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Topics

The ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection (WMDD 2015) encourages the submission of papers that address the multimodal perspective of deception detection, as well as papers that use clues from a single modality but with the clear potential of being integrated with additional modalities. We also encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work stemming from a variety of fields such as computational linguistics, speech processing, computer vision, psychology, physiology, and others. The topics include, but are not limited to:

• Deception detection using multimodal processing, including modalities such as text, speech, thermal, and visual

• Deception detection using a single modality, with a potential to be integrated with other modalities

• Deception detection applied to real world applications, including healthcare, law enforcement, and others

• Study of nonverbal behaviors associated to deception

• The role of psychology in deception detection

• The role of physiology in deception detection

• Ways to integrate multiple modalities, including feature-based and decision-based fusion, and temporal alignment

• Deception detection in social media

• The construction of datasets for deception detection, from real or simulated environments

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Organizers and PC

Organizers:

Mohamed Abouelenien, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Mihai Burzo, University of Michigan, Flint, USA.

Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Veronica Perez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Program Committee:

Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK

Judee Burgoon, University of Arizona , USA

Paola Castillo, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Malcolm Dcosta, University of Houston, USA

Amit Deokar, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Jeffrey Hancock, Cornell University, USA

Julia Hirschberg, University of Columbia, USA

Matthew Jensen, University of Oklahoma, USA

Maria Liakata, University of Warwick, UK

Thomas Meservy, Brigham Young University, USA

Ronald Poppe, University of Twente, Netherlands

Rob Procter, University of Warwick, UK

Victoria Rubin, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Frank Rudzicz, University of Toronto, Canada

Elena Svetieva, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal

Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Athens University, Greece

Douglas Twitchell, Illinois State University, USA

Reyer Zwiggelaar, Aberystwyth University, UK

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Submission

We invite the submission of long (up to 8 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers. Papers should be anonymous, and the review process will be double blind. The papers should follow the ACM template. Links to the templates are available on the ACM website (Word template, LaTeX template). Papers should be submitted here using the EasyChair submission interface.

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Important Dates

Long papers submission deadline: August 1 (Extended: August 13)

Short papers submission deadline: August 1 (Extended: August 13)

Notification of acceptance: September 1 (September 10)

Camera-ready papers due: September 17 (September 28)

Registration deadline: October 8

Workshop day: November 13

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Keynote Speakers

Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, USA.

Dr. Yejin Choi, University of Washington, USA.

Dr. Jeffrey Hancock, Stanford University, USA.

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Program

Friday, November 13
9:00 - 9:10	Opening
9:10 – 10:00	Invited Talk: “Deception Detection Research in the 2000s – From the Diaries of a Principal Investigator” Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:20	Invited Talk: “Language, Deception and Context – Implications Detecting Deception” Jeffrey Hancock, Cornell University
11:20 – 11:40	Cross-Cultural Production and Detection of Deception from Speech Sarah Ita Levitan, Guozhen An, Mandi Wang, Gideon Mendels, Julia Hirschberg, Michelle Levine and Andrew Rosenberg
11:40 – 12:00	Trimodal Analysis of Deceptive Behavior Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, and Mihai Burzo
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:20	Invited Talk: “Reading the Communicative Intent in Style” Yejin Choi, University of Washington
14:20 – 14:40	Misleading Online Content: Recognizing Clickbait as “False News” Yimin Chen, Niall Conroy, and Victoria Rubin
14:40 – 15:00	Multimodal deception detection: a t-pattern approach Barbara Diana, Massimiliano Elia, Valentino Zurloni, Annibale Elia, Alessandro Maisto and Serena Pelosi
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:50	Silesian deception database – presentation and analysis Krystian Radlak, Maciej Bozek and Bogdan Smolka
15:50 – 16:00	Closing

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