Measuring Behavior symposia consist of a series of scientific presentations around a common theme related to the general theme of measuring behavior. In previous conferences symposia have included topics such as ‘automatic facial expression analysis’, ‘automation of observing and analyzing rodent behavior’ and ‘measuring meeting behavior’.

EU FP7 projects
For international collaboration projects (e.g. EU FP7 projects), a symposium is an excellent format to present the results of their project to an interdisciplinary audience from diverse application domains. Such an event helps a consortium to meet the dissemination and knowledge transfer objectives that are an integral part of most publicly funded projects.

Symposia
The following symposia are accepted:

1. Automated identification and quantification of non-rodent behavioural phenotypes
   Organized by: Steven Buckingam, and David Sattelle (UK Medical Research Council)
2. Improving sports performance
   Organized: by Patricia de Cocq (Wageningen University Research) and Carolien Munsters (NHB Deurne)
3. Unveiling Affective Signals
   Organized by: Egon L. van den Broek (University of Twente / Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen), Anton Nijholt (University of Twente), and Joyce H.D.M. Westerink (Philips Research)
4. Measuring (Ambient) Persuasive Technologies
   Organized by: Wolfgang Reitberger, Alexander Meschtscherjakov and Manfred Tscheligi (University of Salzburg), Jaap Ham (Eindhoven University of Technology), and Boris de Ruyter (Philips Research Europe)
5. Ambulatory recording of psycho-physiological signals: platforms and applications
   Organized by: Martin Ouwerkerk, Joyce Westerink, and  Martijn Krans (Philips Research)
6. Enrichment discrimination test: a novel model of attention deficiency in rats and mice
   Organized by: Ramiz Salimov, Elena Godovikh, Inga Kapitza, and Alexander Ivashchenko (Chemdiv Inc.)
7. The significance of voluntary exploration to monitor emotional behavior of rodents
   Organized by: Martien J.H. Kas (University Medical Center Utrecht), Oliver Stiedl (VU University Amsterdam), Jeansok J. Kim (University of Washington, Seattle), Ilan Golani (Tel Aviv University), and Berry M. Spruijt (Utrecht University)
8. Large and small scale physiological recordings in behavioural context
   Organized by: Gernot Riedel and Bettina Platt (University of Aberdeen)
9. Diagnostics of Motivational Conflicts through Thinking Activity
   Organized by: Olga Arestova and Anastasia Karpukhina (Moscow State University)
10. Monitoring of Social Interactions and Initial Signs of Conflicts in Isolated Groups during Long-Term Missions
    Organized by: Roman Gorbunov and Emilia Barakova (Technical University of Eindhoven), and Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University)

Symposium speakers will have until April 19, 2010 to submit their abstracts via the online reviewing system (http://crs.borderit.com/). These deadlines will not be extended.

In order to keep the registration fee as low as possible, the conference organization will not provide any subsidy to the symposia.