ACII 2025 Workshop
Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Computing (MMAC)
Understanding Emotion Across Cultures and Contexts
October 11 morning, 2025 @Canberra, Australia
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Overview
Overview
How we express and interpret emotion is shaped by the languages we speak, the cultures we belong to, and the social contexts we inhabit. However, current affective computing models, datasets, and annotation frameworks often rely on culturally homogeneous populations. This narrow focus risks misrepresenting the rich diversity of emotional expression found across global communities, resulting in inaccurate interpretations, cultural bias, and limited applicability in real-world scenarios.
The MMAC workshop aims to broaden the scope of affective computing by convening researchers from psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and AI ethics. Together, we will explore how emotional expression varies across languages, cultures, and communicative modalities. A central focus will be on integrating speech, facial expressions, body language, and gestures within diverse linguistic and social environments.
This workshop will be held at the 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (https://acii-conf.net/2025/). ACII 2025 will be an in-person event held at the Hotel Realm conference venue in Canberra, Australia.
We welcome submissions addressing the following topics:
Cross-cultural and multilingual emotion expression (Psychology & linguistics perspective)
E.g.
Analyze how gestures, speech, and body language vary across subcultures (e.g., regional Asian groups, immigrant communities).
Study emotion recognition in multilingual and code-switching contexts (e.g., dialectal variations, phonetic cues in emotional speech).
Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Dynamic Social Interactions (Computational perspective)
E.g.
Explore the interplay of speech, facial and bodily expressions
Model multiperson dynamics in social scenarios, including professional settings and informal communication
Context-aware Data Resources and Annotation (Data-centric perspective)
E.g.
Build datasets capturing social norms and context-specific expressions
Design annotation framework for linguistic diversity and ethical considerations (privacy, representation)
Inclusive AI (Ethics & social responsibility perspective)
E.g.
Develop strategies for cross-cultural model adaptation (e.g., transfer learning, meta-learning).
Establish benchmarks & evaluation metrics for AI’s ability to handle diverse expression styles.
Important Dates
Important Dates
The time zone for the deadlines below is Anywhere on Earth (AOE).
Paper submission deadline for workshops: 30 June 2025 7 July 2025 (extended)
Workshop papers decision notification: 28 July 2025
Workshop camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2025
Workshop date and time: 11 October 2025 (morning)
Submission
Submission
We invite submissions of short papers (max. 5 pages; 4 pages + 1 page for references) focusing on one of the 4 key topics mentioned above. The workshop encourages both theoretical papers (establishing new directions for context- and culture-aware AI) and empirical papers (presenting new datasets, annotation frameworks, analytical methods, or computational models).
Submissions should be double-blind, i.e., anonymous, follow the official submission guidelines from ACII2025, and clearly state which one of the four key topics they most closely align with. Each paper will be sent to at least two expert reviewers associated with relevant key areas and will have one of the organizers assigned as editor.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACII 2025 Workshop Proceedings. At least one author must register for the workshop and one conference day.
Please submit your manuscript via the EasyChair platform.
Program
Program
To be announced.
Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers
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Organizing Committee
Organizing Committee
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