CFP: the 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The 2009 conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in De Rode Hoed, a former Remonstrant
church built in 1616 and located in the heart of Amsterdam's historic district. One of the leading cultural
centers of Europe, with one of the continent's largest historical inner cities, Amsterdam has breathtaking
architecture, an extensive web of canals and side streets, and many world-renowned museums and cultural
attractions. The city offers a wide range of accommodation, from luxury hotels to modest hostels, and is
easily accessible from the Amsterdam International Airport.

Theme:
The conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international forum
for state of the art in research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems. Every
other year the ACII conference plays an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and highereducation
programs.
This year, we are especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling Behavioral and Socially-Aware Human-
Machine Interfaces in areas including psychology and cognition of affective and social behaviour in HCI,
affective and social behaviour analysis and synthesis, affective and social robotics.
General conference topics will include:

• Recognition & Synthesis of Human Affect (face/ body/ speech/ physiology/ text analysis & synthesis)
• Affective & Behavioural Interfaces (adaptive/ human-centred/ collaborative/ proactive interfaces)
• Affective & Social Robotics (robot’s cognition & action, embodied emotion, bio-inspired architectures)
• Affective Agents (emotion, personality, memory, reasoning, and architectures of ECA)
• Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems (including cultural and ethical issues)
• Affective Databases, Evaluation & Annotation Tools
• Applications (virtual reality, entertainment, education, smart environments and biometric applications)

The program will be triple track with posters.

Important Dates:
      March 23, 2009: Deadline for submission of regular papers.
      April 27, 2009: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for demos.
      June 1, 2009: Acceptance notification
      July 1, 2009: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form.

Call for Contributed Papers:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically through the conference website.
Each contribution will be judged by at least three referees.

Conference Website:
For more information, please visit: www.acii2009.nl.

Note:
ACII 2009 is co-located with the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’09; iva09.dfki.de), to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14-16, 2009.

Conference General Chairs

Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA

   Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, NL

   Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK/University of Twente, NL

Local Organisation Chairs

   Dirk Heylen & Mannes Poel, University of Twente, NL

Special Session/ Panel/ Tutorial Chairs

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK

   Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

   Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for AI

Demos Chairs

Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA

   Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, UK

   Marc Schröder, DFKI, Germany

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

   Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

   Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France

   Alessandro Vinciarelli, IDIAP, Switzerland

Publicity Chairs

Kostas Karpouzis, National Tech. University of Athens, Greece

    Jianhua Tao, NLPR, China

Web Masters / Publication Chairs

Ferdinand Beljaars / Pyrrhos Stathis, Fyper VOF

Program Committee

Elisabeth André,Ruth Aylett,Gerard Bailly,Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze,Roberto Bresin, Yag Cai, Nick Campbell, Antonio Camurri, Lola Canãmero, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Ira Cohen, Cristina Conati, Roddy Cowie, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Laurence Devillers, Rana El-Kaliouby, Anna Esposito, Jonathan Gratch, Hatice Gunes, Emile Hendriks, Julia Hirschberg, Kristina Höök, Eva Hudlicka, Qiang Ji, Susanne Kaiser, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefan Kopp, Henry Lieberman, Diane Litman, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Jean-Claude Martin, Aleix Martinez, Stacy Marsella, Peter McOwan, Javier Movellan, Helen Pain, Ana Paiva, Ioannis Patras, Catherine Pelachaud, Paolo Petta, Frank Pollick, Thierry Pun, Steve Renals, Peter Robinson, Marc Schröder, Bjorn Schuller, Nicu Sebe, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Terence Sim, Jianhua Tao, Jacques Terken, Daniel Thalmann, Jan Treur, Matthew Turk, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Thomas Wehrle, Yaser Yacoob, Lijun Yin.