[Apologies for cross-postings] Dear Colleagues, The CFP below for the AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2008 Workshop on "Emotion, Personality and Social Behavior" might be of interest to you, as our organizing committee believes in exploring interdisciplinary exchanges at the boundaries of HCI, HRI, game design, the arts, and research on affect, personality and social patterns. Please note our emphasis on open discussions (vs. the traditional paper sessions) which we value in order to encourage and facilitate brainstorming interactions between colleagues from various fields of research (too often artificially separated). DO consider participating to this exciting event at Stanford University, and come to meet colleagues interested in smoothing the boundary lines to generate novel ideas! Best regards, Christine ******************************************************************* FINAL CFP: AAAI Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior March 26-28, 2008 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA ******************************************************************* Recent years have witnessed increased interest in modeling emotion and personality in cognitive agent and robot architectures. Increasingly, the focus has been on exploring the role of affective factors in social behavior. These include emotions, moods, personality traits, and attitudes. Researchers and practitioners in areas such as social robotics, game development, affective HCI, and synthetic agents are increasingly recognizing the importance of these affective factors in developing believable, realistic and robust agents, and effective human-machine interfaces. This symposium seeks to bring together researchers in diverse relevant areas such as affective computing, believable agents, game design, robotics, social computing, and the arts, to examine the roles of emotions, moods, personality traits and attitudes in mediating social behavior among biological and artificial agents. The symposium will provide a forum for interdisciplinary interactions addressing fundamental issues in modeling affect and personality in social behavior. To facilitate interaction, moderated panels, small working groups, and open discussion will be emphasized, rather than the traditional paper sessions. We encourage submissions of proposals for discussion topics, panels, small working groups, as well as project demos. Submission guidelines Interested participants should submit papers of not more than 8 pages (AAAI conference format), discussion and working group topics (1 page), or panel proposals (1-2 pages) to [log in to unmask] by October 5. Relevant topics include: * How do we understand the interactions between emotion, personality, and social behavior? * What can they tell us about cognitive / cognitive-affective architecture? * How can we make compelling artificial characters? * How can we make systems that facilitate social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters? * How can considerations of affective factors contribute to more effective human-computer interaction in general? * How do intrapsychic cognition-emotion interactions manifest at the interpersonal level? * Methods and techniques for more systematic approaches to design * What are the best approaches to developing the necessary knowledge- bases? * What are the best data sources for architecture development and validation? * How can we validate models and architectures? * What are the emerging standards in affective artificial characters, robots and systems? Submitters will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by November 2. For more information see: psychometrixassociates.com/AAAI08.html Organizing Committee Ian Horswill, Northwestern University ([log in to unmask]) Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates ([log in to unmask]) Christine Lisetti, Florida International University ([log in to unmask]) Juan Velasquez, MIT ([log in to unmask]) Program Committee Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa, Italy Fiorella de Rosis, University of Bari, Italy Gerry Matthews, University of Cincinnati, US Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University, US Ana Paiva, IST-Technical University of Lisbon and INESC-ID, Portugal Rui Prada, IST-Technical University of Lisbon and INESC-ID, Portugal Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ************************************************************************ ************************ Christine Lisetti, Ph.D. tel: 305-348-6242 Associate Professor fax: 305-348-3549 School of Computing and Information Sciences email: [log in to unmask] University Park ECS 361 http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~lisetti 11200 S.W. 8th Street Miami, FL 33199 USA ************************************************************************ ************************ --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------