Call for nominations to the Executive Committee of the HUMAINE Association

The HUMAINE Association was established in June 2007 as a professional organisation for people engaged in affective / emotion-oriented computing. Its constitution is available at http://emotion-research.net/association/constitution.pdf, and a broad summary of its principles is available at http://emotion-research.net/association/blog/what-is-the-humaine-association.

From September 2007 the Association will be managed by an Executive Committee, normally consisting of 15 people elected by the membership. Elections for the first Executive Committee will be held to coincide with ACII in Lisbon 2007. They will involve a combination of online voting before ACII and direct voting at ACII.

The 2007 election will elect 15 members. The number of votes received will determine whether they serve for 6 years, 4 years, or 2 years.

People involved in affective / emotion-oriented computing are invited to put themselves forward as candidates for the first Executive Committee. They must be members of the Association when the election closes (12th September 2007).

Nominations close at noon CET on September 4th 2007.

Candidates should submit their contact details and a short self-description (10-15 lines in total, including a short biographical
sketch describing their work in the area, and their objectives for the Association) to the election supervisor at the following address: schroed@dfki.de. These details will be made available online for the election.

The Association is intended to be open to all relevant interests, not to be an extension of any pre-existing group. To ensure that is open, the groundwork leading up to the election has been supervised by a task force formed from individuals associated with a range of different groups and countries.  They are:

Nick Campbell (Japan)
Roddy Cowie (UK)
Jonathan Gratch (USA)
Jean-Claude Martin (France)
Ana Paiva (Portugal)
Paolo Petta (Austria)
Rosalind Picard (USA)
Fiorella de Rosis (Italy)
Marc Schroeder (Germany)
Jianhua Tao (China)