Paper submission deadline: November 17th, 2025
Paper notification: January 5th, 2026
Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2026
The workshop on Human-centred Emotion-Awareness and Sensing in Pervasive Computing (EmotionSense) aims to advance research at the intersection of affective computing, pervasive sensing, and human-centered AI. EmotionSense workshop focuses on two complementary objectives, addressing the realm of pervasive computing. First, to explore how unobtrusive sensing of cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and contextual human data—with particular emphasis on affective states—can drive the development of innovative computing experiences. Second, to investigate novel algorithms and AI techniques for the automatic recognition of emotions and, more general, health and well-being conditions, based on mobile and wearable sensors.
The synergy between human-centered computational sensing and emotion recognition is critical, as the emotional state both influences and is influenced by sensing technologies. This bidirectional relationship has significant implications for the design and application of pervasive computing systems in real-world, human-centered environments.
We invite to this workshop unique contributions addressing these challenges. EmotionSense 2026 aims to facilitate collaboration among research groups working on emotion recognition for pervasive computing and human-centered computational sensing.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to the following areas:
Novel methodologies and theories, experimental design, computational models, algorithms, and evolutionary investigation on emotion detection and multi-modal human sensing
Co-sensing of multiple individuals, groups, or communities
Analysis of human behavior, health status and emotions through mobile and wearable devices
Edge and fog computing architectures for human sensing
Fusion of multifaceted, heterogeneous, and/or incommensurable human sensing data, affect and context data
Localization and proximity-detection systems for social inclusion
Innovative visualizations, representations and interpretation of human sensing data and human affect in mobile and pervasive computing
User acceptance, quality of experience, and social impact studies
Approaches to obtaining reliable ground truth and data annotation for human sensing and emotion research.
AI and generative algorithms for emotion recognition and behavioral modeling
Affective computing and human-centered sensing for healthcare, industry, work-life balance, and social good
The novel use of emotion information in pervasive computing applications.
Impact of human sensing and emotion on human-robot interactions and lifelogging vice versa
Privacy and ethical considerations for human-centered computational sensing and affective computing
Design of emotion-aware and human sensing systems promoting diversity and inclusion
Experiences and lessons learned from research projects focused on human-centered computational sensing and affective computing
Workshop Policies:
Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only).
Papers without a valid full registration or that are not presented in-person will be excluded from the proceedings
Papers submitted for review should be 6 pages long (including references) in the double-column format. Please follow the instructions from publication vendor of PerCom to prepare the camera-ready here.
Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore)
The workshop will be affiliated to IEEE PerCom 2026, to be held in Pisa, Italy.
Authors are invited to submit technical or theoretical papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop.
Accepted workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore).
Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Authors can purchase one additional page for the camera-ready version. Papers in excess of the page limits will not be considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found here.
Submission must be made via EDAS at the following link
It is a requirement that all the authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in EDAS. The author section of EDAS will be locked after the workshop submission deadline to ensure that conflict-of-interest can be properly enforced during the review process. If the list of authors differs between the paper and EDAS, the paper may not be reviewed.
Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Papers that are not presented at the workshop will not be published in the proceedings.
A Best Paper Award could be presented to recognize outstanding contributions.