The 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019)

September 3rd-6th, 2019

Cambridge, United Kingdom

http://acii-conf.org/2019/

Call for papers for the main conference (Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society)

We are calling for papers to be presented at ACII 2019, the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII2019 will be invited to submit extended versions to IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing. These will be published in a “Best of ACII” special issue of this premier journal.

The general conference topics include:

Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

Computational Models of Emotional Processes
Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction
Ethical Issues in Affective Computing
Inclusive Design

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modelling and Animation
Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior
Creating models for user diversity (ability, language, culture, gender, age)

Affective Interfaces for ALL

Inclusive, affective user interfaces
Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
Embodied Emotion
Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

Affective Databases and Annotation Tools

Applications (e.g., Health, Education, Entertainment, Consumer Products)

Special Tracks: ACII2019 will also include the following multidisciplinary tracks

Neural and Psychological Models of Affect
Technological and Biological Bodies in Dialogue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Bodily, Affective and Social Perception

For more information on special tracks click here.

Important Dates

Main Conference

Paper submission: 23 April 2019 (anywhere on Earth)
Abstract submission for special track: 23 April 2019 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: 14 June 2019
Camera ready papers due: 12 July 2019
Conference: 3 – 6 September 2019

Demos

Demo application deadline: June 24, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 5, 2019
Camera ready papers due: July 12, 2019

Doctoral Consortium Participation

Submission deadline: May 11, 2019
Acceptance notifications: June 14, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: July 12, 2019

Special Sessions

Submission of Special Session proposals: November 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance for the Special Sessions: December 7, 2018
Paper Submission to the accepted Special Sessions Deadline: ~~April 12, 2019~~ April 23, 2019 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance for the papers: 14 June, 2019
Camera ready papers due: 12 July, 2019

Tutorial Proposals

Tutorial Proposal Deadline: March 29, 2019
Tutorial Acceptance Notification: May 3, 2019
Tutorial day: September 3, 2019

Workshops

Workshop proposal submission deadline: ~~Feb 12, 2019~~ Feb 19, 2019
Workshop proposal acceptance notification: March 12, 2019
Camera Ready Papers Due: July 12, 2019 (same as main conference)
Date of workshops: September 3, 2019

International Workshop on Social & Emotion AI for Industry (SEAIxI)

Submissions due: 20th of June 2019
Author Notifications by: 5th July 2019
Day of the Workshop: TBA

Workshop on emotions and emergent states in groups

Submissions due: 17th of June 2019 (midnight PST)
Author Notifications by: 3rd July 2019
Day of the Workshop: TBA