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Affective Computing Pre-Conference at ISRE
Introduction to the Affective Computing preconference series
The Affective Computing Pre-Conference will feature state-of-the-art research on computational techniques for understanding, recognizing and shaping human emotion, and emphasizes ways to strengthen interdisciplinary connections between the computational and human sciences of emotion. Submitted contributions and invited speakers will discuss the latest research on computational methods inspired by the affective sciences, as well as how such methods can transform research in affective science. For submitted contributions we will be accepting extended abstract submissions for Poster and “Flash Talk” presentations (instructions below).
This pre-conference is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC). The pre-conference is part of the affective computing preconference series started in 2017 in Boston at SAS, and the 2019 pre-conference at ISRE 2019 in Amsterdam. The Affective Computing preconference attempts to support the increasing interest in the interdisciplinary study of emotion in which computational modelling as well as computational analysis play an important role. For more information on AAAC click here. For more information on ISRE, click here.
The pre-conference is an in-person physical one-day event during ISRE 2022. It features invited talks and contributed “flash talks”, a poster booster session and a poster session. Further, time is allocated for discussion and meeting people. Invited speakers will be announced in the coming months.
Organizers
Joost Broekens, Leiden University (NL)
Mohammad Soleymani, University of Southern California (USA)
Submission and contribution format
We will be accepting abstract submissions for Poster and “Flash Talk” presentations. Presentations should address topics in affective computing, broadly defined, i.e. emotion recognition, emotion modeling, emotion expression in technological artifacts, and, human (affective) responses to (affective) technology. The extended abstract should emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the work and explicitly link with the affective sciences. Acceptance of the contribution is at the discretion of the program committee based on a review by the pc. The extended abstract should be a 2 page pdf, including bibliography and should outline goals of the research, methods used and a summary of the results. Position and/or “blue sky idea” extended abstract are also welcome but need to make the argument in a clear and concise way in the extended abstract. Submissions are welcome from any career status. Submissions are submitted through Easychair, https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acisre2022. Extended abstracts will be published online, but not through an official publisher, meaning that you keep the copyright and you are still able to submit elsewhere.
Deadlines and dates
Submission deadline (extended!): 1 May 2022
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2022.
Pre-conference (on site-physical event): 15 July 2022
Registration
To register for the pre-conference please follow the registration instructions on the ISRE 2022 website. Please register through the ISRE main registration system.
Invited speakers
We are proud to have the following invited speakers, all of which have a true interdisciplinary focus in their research, and, each provides a unique perspective on the computational studying of emotion. Together they form a representative selection of experts on the use of emotion in machines, including the sensing of affective signals, the simulation of emotion elicitation, the interplay between emotion and cognition, artificial emotion expression, and the study of emotion in the interaction between humans and socially interactive agents. If you want to know more about how emotions are used, modelled and understood from a computational perspective, then join us!
Christian Becker-Asano is one of the founders of the computational modelling of emotion elicitation (WASABI), now Professor of AI at Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Germany.
Sidney D'Mello is world-leading expert on computational modelling of affect in learning and development, now at the Institute of Cognitive Science of the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Maja Matarić, a world-leading expert on affective signals in socially assistive robots. She is the Chan Soon-Shiong Chaired and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California, CA, USA. The is also the co-founder of Embodied Inc.
Desmond Ong, is a rising star building a track record on computational methods to study the interplay between cognition and emotion, he is now an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore.
Malte Jung is an Associate Professor in Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the intersections of teamwork, technology, and emotion. He leads the Robots in Groups lab.
Catherine Pelachaud is one of the founders of research into the expression of emotion and social signals by embodied conversational agents (intelligent virtual agents), she is Director of Research at CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University, France.
Program
The gathering will be in Room SCI 108 (School of Cinematic Arts, see map at ISRE site)
8:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
9:45 - 10:25 Catherine Pelachaud
9:50 - 10:25 Malte Jung
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:35 Christian Becker-Asano
11:35 - 12:10 Sidney D'Mello
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch break (on your own)
13:30 - 14:05 Desmond Ong
14:05 - 14:30 Flash talks (3m each)
14:30 - 15:30 Posters (and coffee break)
15:30 - 16:05 Maja Matarić
16:05 - 17:00 Panel discussion with audience
17:00 - 17:30 Wrap-up and closing
Posters and Flash talks
Roza Kamiloglu, Rui Sun, Patrick Bos, Florian Huber, Jisk Attema and Disa Sauter. A computational ethology approach to laughter
Alexandra Israelsson and Petri Laukka. Mixed emotions can be perceived from dynamic multimodal expressions
Larry Zhang, Jacek Kolacz, Stefan Scherer, Albert (Skip) Rizzo and Mohammad Soleymani. Speech Behavioral Markers Align on Symptom Factors in Psychological Distress
Roxana Girju and Marina Girju. Adaptive Multimodal Empathic NLP-driven Interface for Enhanced Human Communication
Sophie Hui Wang, Nutchanon Yongsatianchot and Stacy Marsella. Analyzing the Role of Risk Perception, Social Factors and Media in Evacuation Decisions
Minh Tran and Mohammad Soleymani. Towards Privacy-Preserving Speech Representation for Client-Side Data Sharing
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