*5^th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural
Environments (AFFINE):*
*Interacting with Affective Artefacts in the Wild*
http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
Geneva, 2 September 2013
Satellite event of ACII 2013 (http://www.acii2013.org/)
A vital requirement for social robots, virtual agents, adaptive games
and smart mobile technology is the ability to infer the affective and
mental states of humans and provide appropriate output during sustained
social interactions, and to do so in a timely manner. Examples include
ensuring that the user is interested in maintaining the interaction or
providing suitable empathic responses through the display of facial
expressions, gestures or generation of speech. This workshop will cover
real-time computational techniques for the recognition and
interpretation of human affective and social behaviour, models of
"mentalising" and "empathising" for affective interaction in
naturalistic settings, and techniques for synthesis of believable social
behaviour supporting real-time adaptive human-agent and human-robot
interaction in real-world environments.
This year AFFINE especially welcomes studies that provide new insights
into the use of multimodal techniques for enabling interaction between
humans and technology "in the wild", i.e., in natural, everyday,
non-laboratory settings. We anticipate the main outcome of this workshop
to be the identification and investigation of important open issues in
real-time, affect-aware applications in natural environments. Issues
such as natural and multimodal interaction, estimation and adaption to
context, context dependent processing and related databases, HCI/HRI
beyond emotion (cognition, behaviour, etc.) and best practices for
application to real environments will be discussed in the context of
interacting with other humans and social artefacts.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Multimodal human affect and social behaviour recognition
Multimodal expression generation in robots and virtual agents
Perception-action loops in agents/robots
Cognitive and affective 'mentalising'
Visual attention / user engagement with robots and embodied
conversational agents (ECAs)
Emotion and cognitive state representation
Social context awareness and adaptation
Natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Frameworks for adaptive, real-time HCI and HRI
Multimodal and emotional corpora (naturally evoked or induced emotion)
Techniques for handling noisy data in real world scenarios
Affective mobile computing
Recognition of human behaviour for implicit tagging
Crowdsourcing affective behaviour
Exertion games/physical interaction
Real-world interactive/affective artefacts
Applications to interactive games, robots and virtual agents
*Program committee*
Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Stelianos Asteriadis (ITI, Greece)
Sandra Baldassarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Christian Becker-Asano (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth, UK)
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (University College London, UK)
Timothy Bickmore (Norteastern University, USA)
Carlos Busso (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK)
Matthieu Courgeon (CERV, France)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Sidney D'Mello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Faiyaz Doctor (Coventry University, UK)
Hatice Gunes (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Zakia Hammal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Isabelle Hupont Torres (Aragon Institute of Technology, Spain)
Stefanos Kollias (ICCS-NTUA, Greece)
Iolanda Leite (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
Maurizio Mancini (University of Genova, Italy)
Rachel McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Peter William McOwan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Radoslaw Niewiadomski (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Fotios Papadopoulos (University of Birmingham, UK)
Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Mario Romero (KTH, Sweden)
Bjoern Schuller (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
Bill Smart (Oregon State University, USA)
Giovanna Varni (University of Genova, Italy)
Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genova, Italy)
Michael Walters (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Nigel Ward (UT El Paso, USA)
*Important dates*
Deadline for paper submission: 26 April 2013
Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2013
Camera ready paper: 17 June 2013
*Paper format*
Papers should be 6 pages long and follow the standard IEEE double column
format, in accordance with the guidelines of the ACII conference. For
more information about the format, see the workshop's website:
http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/
*Submission instructions*
Authors should submit their manuscripts using the EasyChair system
(instructions and link are available on the workshop's website:
http://www.image.ntua.gr/affine/)
*Publication information*
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the ACII conference
proceedings and indexed in IEEExplore.
*Workshop chairs*
Ginevra Castellano (University of Birmingham, UK)
Kostas Karpouzis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Jean-Claude Martin (Paris South University, France)
Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA)
Christopher Peters (KTH, Sweden)
Laurel Riek (University of Notre Dame, USA)
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Dr. Ginevra Castellano
School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7118
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/castellg/
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