Mirror Labs project events

Past events:

25-27 September 2024 - School of Interdisciplinary Research in Cognitive and Social Sciences (IRCSS)
The school was organized by the Laboratory of Social & Cognitive Informatics (SCILa)  within the framework of the Mirror Laboratories project of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg “Perceived communication quality in face-to-face and computer-mediated meetings and its objective assessment using oxytocin and mimic markers". The event is aimed at creating interdisciplinary dialogue in solving scientific and applied problems. The proposed cases included the analysis of behavioral, textual and neurobiological data, half of them involve working with open AI models. The school covered the topics of using LLM models for data labeling and content analysis, formulating measurements of cognitive psychology in the language of computational linguistics, using open AI models to recognize emotions and movements to analyze the human state and the quality of communication in dialogue, and much more.

September 18, 2023 - Open seminar on the use of emotion recognition algorithms in psychological and social research
Within the Mirror Labs project "Perceived quality of communication in real and computer-mediated meetings and its objective measurements on the example of oxytocin and mimic markers" of the HSE University, the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics held an open seminar devoted to the automatic analysis of emotions in psychological and social research. The seminar discussed opportunities, challenges and breakthroughs in this field, as well as the experience of using such algorithms in research.

Seminar Program 
10.15 - 10.45 gathering of participants
10.45 - 11.00 opening of the seminar and greeting of participants
11.00 - 11.40 Moroshkina Nadezhda, report "Practices of open science in psychological research: experience of using OSF platform", discussion of the report
11.40 - 12.20 Dmitry Lyusin, report "Automatic Recognition of Emotions: a Psychologist's View", discussion of the report
12.20 - 13.00 Tatyana Litvinova, report "Application of emotion recognition algorithms in linguistic research", discussion of the report
13.00 - 14.00 break
14.00 - 14.40 Sergey Koltsov, report "Modern algorithms of emotion recognition", discussion of the report
14.40 - 15.20 Lopatina Olga, report "Oxytocin as a marker of social adaptation and emotion recognition", discussion of the report
15.20 - 16.00 Dvoinikova Anastasia, report "Data corpora and methods of computer paralinguistics", discussion of the report
16.00 - 16.20 break
16.20 - 17.00 Mararitsa Larisa, Tsigeman Elina, report "Review of research using emotion recognition algorithms in psychological and social research", discussion of the report
17.00 - 18.00 summarizing the results of the seminar

Recordings of reports

On April 10, 2023 within the XXIV Yasin (April) international scientific conference on the problems of development of economy and society a round table "Physiological and psycho-emotional consequences of the transition to new forms of communication" was held.
During the round table the following questions were discussed:

• Characteristics that distinguish mediated and direct communication. How has the communication process changed since the transition to online?
• Video conferencing fatigue (Zoom fatigue), attitudes towards online communication and attachment formation strategies. How do personality characteristics mediate the effects of communication format on communication and social bonding quality?
• Biochemical markers of communication quality: the role of oxytocin in social behavior. Is oxytocin a reliable marker of social behavior?
• Automatic recognition of facial expression markers for assessing emotional states. Can the quality of communication be assessed by mimic markers during social behavior?

Researchers from different fields (psychologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists) as well as industry and practitioners participated in the discussion.