Call for Papers

AffCon 2021: Affect in Collaborative Creation

The theme of AffCon 2021 is the study of affect in collaboration. The word ‘affect’ is used to refer to emotion, sentiment, mood, and attitudes including subjective evaluations, opinions, and speculations. Psychological models of affect have been adopted by other disciplines to conceptualize and measure users’ opinions, intentions, and expressions. However, the context-specific characteristics of human affect suggest the need to measure in ways that recognize multiple interpretations of human responses.

We invite research spanning both creation and consumption of content, especially for cooperative tasks. Our focus on affective content in collaborations includes, but is not limited to, collectively created content, reactions in groups, interactions through avatars, and multi-modal interfaces. We also strongly encourage research that explores these themes, and group dynamics in content creation and in affective reactions.


  • Affect in Collaborative Content

  • Affect in Communication co-creation

  • Affective Reactions in Co-creation and collaboration

  • Affectively responsive interfaces

  • Deep learning-based models for affect modeling in content (image, audio, and video)

  • Mirroring affect

  • Psycho--demographic Profiling

  • Affect--based Text Generation

  • Multi-modal Affect

  • Stylometrics, Typographics, and Psycho-linguistics

  • Cognitive and psychological computational models of creativity

  • Affective needs and Firm-Consumer co-creation Behavior

  • Computational models for Consumer Behavior theories of innovation

  • Affective Lexica for Online Marketing Communication

  • Affective human-agent, human-computer, and human-robot interaction

We especially invite papers investigating multiple related themes, industry papers, and descriptions of running projects and ongoing work. To address the scarcity of standardized baselines, datasets, and evaluation metrics for cross-disciplinary affective content analysis, submissions describing new language resources, evaluation metrics, and standards for affect analysis and understanding are also strongly encouraged.

Submissions should be made via EasyChair and must follow the formatting guidelines for AAAI-2021 (use the AAAI Author Kit). All submissions must be anonymous and conform to AAAI standards for double-blind review. Both full papers (8 page long including references) and short papers (4 page long including references) that adhere to the 2-column AAAI format will be considered for review.

Deadlines: See Important Dates

Submission Link for regular submissions and Shared Task submissions: EasyChair - Closed

Related Work: See References

CL-Aff Shared Task : Diplomacy

We are pleased to announce the 2021 CL-Aff Shared Task: Diplomacy, which will examine the challenges of affect in online collaborations.

See CL-Aff for Dataset details, Task details and deadlines.