AIRiAL Conference 2025

The theme explores how Social & Emotional AI—AI technologies capable of recognizing, interpreting, and responding to human emotions—can revolutionize language learning and assessment, communication technologies, and cross-cultural interactions.

We invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit proposals that explore how AI can manifest, recognize, interpret, and respond to human emotions to foster empathy, connection, and meaningful relationships in human-computer and human-human interaction. 

We encourage interdisciplinary submissions for papers, posters, or colloquia that explore novel applications of social AI, emotional AI, affective computing, multimodal communication, and linguistic AI beyond these areas. Contributions from applied linguistics, language education, computer science, cognitive science, psychology, education, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics are highly encouraged.

Presentation Types

Papers: Formal presentations of completed research making original scholarly contributions. Presenters will have 15 minutes to discuss their papers, followed by 5 minutes for audience discussion. (250 words maximum)

Colloquia: Multiple formal presentations on a single topic achieved through multiple individual presentations. Colloquia organizers may plan the number of presentations in a 90-minute session, followed by audience discussion. (750 words maximum)

Posters: Poster presentations displaying works-in-progress or completed projects. Presenters will discuss their posters with participants informally during a one-hour poster session. (200 words maximum)

Technology Demonstrations: Tech demos displaying prototype versions of a developed technology for language learning, teaching, or assessment, or other related use cases. Presenters will discuss the technology that they have developed with participants informally during a one-hour tech demo session. (200 words maximum)

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