EmotionSense Program
Friday, March 20th, 2026
Friday, March 20th, 2026
08:45 - 09:00 Opening
09:00 - 10:30 Context-Awareness and Personalization (Chair: Franca Delmastro)
Papers:
Unified Multi-Task Learning for Emotion Context Recognition from Wearable Sensors
Jiqing Qu (Tongji University, China); H. Xiao (College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China); Xuefeng Li (Tongji University, China); Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)
The Role of Personalization Weights in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition
Emiliano Chiarini, Angelo Ferrando and Luca Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Deployment Limits of Cross-Subject EEG Emotion Recognition: A Multimodal Baseline Study
Imran Ahmed Khan and Shogo Ishikawa (Shizuoka University, Japan)
An IoT Platform for Context-Aware Prediction of Academic Performance using Mobile Sensing
Guilherme Antonio Borges (University of Coimbra & Sul-Rio-Grandense Federal Institute, Portugal); José Marcelo Silva Lopes Fernandes (University of Coimbra, Portugal); AndréRodrigues (Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal); Soraya Sinche (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador & University of Coimbra, Portugal); Pablo Hidalgo (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador); Fernando Boavida and Jorge Sá Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Animated Representations of Emotions for Wearable Interfaces
Michał Wróbel (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Duygun Erol Barkana (Yeditepe University, Turkey); Agnieszka Landowska (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Session - Albrecht Schmidt (Chair: Judith Heinisch)
"Keynote: Bio-Adaptive Learning Paradigms -- Physiology-Driven Personal Cognitive Systems"
12:00 - 12:30 Learning Affect from Physiological and Motion Signals (Chair: Klaus David)
Papers:
Impact of Time-Series Representation on Emotion Recognition
Anna Parilova, Si Zuo and Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)
GWNet: Graph Wavelet Network for StO2-Based Stress Detection
Aoni Zhang, Jia Yingjuan, Tong Chen and Lei Yang (Southwest University, China)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Data Challenges in Emotion Recognition (Chair: Flavio Di Martino)
Papers:
Addressing Data Scarcity in Emotion Recognition from Body Motion Through Style Transfer
Lorenzo Di Folco (SUPSI, Switzerland); Davide Andreoletti (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland); Matteo Besenzoni (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland); Tiziano Leidi (SUPSI, Switzerland); Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland)
AI4SER: An Italian Speech Emotion Dataset for Human-Centered Affective Applications
Salvatore Serrano, Marica Amadeo, Luca Patanè, Marco Scarpa, Carmela Mento, Silvia Carbone and Giulia Esposito (University of Messina, Italy)
14:30 - 15:00 Human-Centered Analysis for Affective Computing (Chair: Flavio Di Martino)
Papers:
Neurophysiological effects of museum modalities on emotional engagement with real artworks
Chen Feng (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Sébastien Lugan (Université Catholique de Lou vain, Belgium); Karine Lasaracina (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Belgium); Benoit Macq (UCL, Belgium); Midori Sugaya (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan)
Investigating Demographic Bias in Eye-Tracking-based Machine Learning Models for Affective Computing
Fabian Engl (OTH Regensburg, Germany); Juergen Mottok (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule, Germany); Michael Burmester (Stuttgart Media University, Germany)
15:00 - 15:30 Best Paper Award
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Closing