This half-day workshop will have several prominent interdisciplinary invited speakers from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and marketing science to lead the presentation sessions.

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Feb 9, 2021, from 8 AM - 1.30 PM EST

Session 1

• • • • 0800 - 0810: Welcome

      • 0810 - 0855 : Invited Speaker: Rosalind Picard. Best Practices in Automating Affect Recognition.

      • 0900 - 0910 : A Two-stage Multi-modal Affect Analysis Framework for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Jicheng Li, Anjana Bhat and Roghayeh Barmaki.

      • 0910 - 0920 : Best paper: Comparison and Analysis of Deep Audio Embeddings for Music Emotion Recognition. Eunjeong Koh and Shlomo Dubnov.

0920 - 0940 : Break

Session 2

• • • • 0940 - 0955: ABL-MICRO: Opportunities for Affective AI Built Using a Multimodal Microaggression Dataset. Gloria Washington, Gishawn Mance, Saurav Aryal and Mikel Kengni.

      • 1000 - 1045 : Invited speaker: Page Moreau. What Text Analysis Cannot Tell Us: The Importance of Observation in Understanding Creative Teams.

      • 1045 - 1130 : Invited speaker: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Towards an artificial intuition: Conversational markers of (anti)social dynamics.

      • 1130 - 1215: Invited speaker: Devi Parikh. AI-assisted Human creativity.

12:15 - 1240 : Break

Session 3

• • • • 1240 - 1250: Empirical Assessment and Characterization of Homophily in Classes of Hate Speeches. Seema Nagar, Sameer Gupta, C.S Bahushruth, Ferdous Barbhuiya and Kuntal Dey.

      • 1250 - 1300: Towards A Six-Level Framework of Emotional Intelligence for Customer Service Chatbots. Qicheng Ding, V. Ivan Sanchez Carmona, Mingming Liu, Fangzhen Peng, Yu Zhang and Changjian Hu.

      • 1300 - 1310: Music Speaks in Emotions. Hortense Fong and Vineet Kumar.