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Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies

So far research into the user's emotional engagement in computing has addressed pleasurable affective states such as enjoyment, fun, and playfulness. Abuse: The darker side of human-computer interaction at Interact 2005 explicitly addressed negative emotions in computing. It was concluded in this workshop that interface design and metaphors can inadvertently rouse more than user dissatisfaction and angry reactions: they can promote a wide range of 'abusive' behaviors that are directed not only towards the machine and the interface but also towards other people.

Agent Construction and Emotions (ACE 2006): Modeling the Cognitive Antecedents and Consequences of Emotion

The workshop will explore the intersection of emotion theory and intelligent system design, and the potential for this intersection to improve our understanding of both human and artificial intelligence. In particular, we seek to emphasize the interplay between emotion and deep models of cognition in adaptively navigating complex physical and social environments. This places an emphasis on psychological paradigms that stress cognitive processes, such as appraisal theory, computational systems that model the cognitive antecedents and consequences of emotion, and research that models emotion-evoking social and task environments. Symposium M at the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research.

Emotion: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect

Workshop in association with LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, 23 May 2006, dedicated to the following topics. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? (more...)

Special session on 'Emerging Multimodal Interfaces' during the Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations conference

This special session brings together researchers from three diverse IST projects (IP CHIL, NoE Humaine and NoE Similar) presenting on-going work in the fields of multimodal analysis and fusion, ubiquity and context awareness, mixed reality and recording of personal experiences.

Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science

Workshop on Intelligent technologies, affective computing and interaction

Purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers and industries in the fields of data capture, analysis and fusion, intelligent systems and cognition and interactive applications, such as interactive installations, embodied conversational agents (ECAs) and mixed reality, as well as EU representatives, in order to present current results and issues from on-going IST projects and discuss the vision and strategic objectives of the next EU Framework Program. Check the URL listed below for the presentations from the workshop.

CFP: 'Speaker Classification'

Christian Müller from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Susanne Schötz from the University of Lund (Sweden) are editing a collection on speaker classification which is published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series (section 'State-of-the-Art Surveys' respectively 'Hot-Topics'). In parallel to the printed book, it is published in full-text electronic form via the Springer internet platform www.springerlink.com.

Special Issue on "Affective Modeling and Adaptation"

Papers presenting original contributions pertinent to affective modeling and adaptation are sought for a special issue of the journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research” (UMUAI) published by Springer.

Computational Aesthetics: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Approaches to BEAUTY and HAPPINESS

Our aesthetic agency for beauty and emotion is one of the most celebrated bastions of humanity. If machines could understand and affect our perceptions of beauty and happiness, they could touch people's lives in fantastic new ways.

emotion and computing

emotion and computing - current research and future impact workshop at the KI 2006

Reinventing trust- collaboration- compliance in social systems

HUMAINE Summer School 2006

The school aims at a deeper understanding of the emotional processes and a better exploitation of this knowledge for the development of emotion-oriented systems. Research topics will be addressed by HUMAINE partners and invited researchers. The HUMAINE EU Summer School will include seminars, tutorials, round tables, and experimental activities. The latter will be finalised to the setup of a final public concert, where continuous measurement and investigation on emotional phenomena in music performance will be faced.

Combining Visualisation and Interaction to Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery

The 2006 Workshop "Combining Visualisation and Interaction to Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery" (British HCI – V&I 2006) aims to promote the importance of HCI and usability aspects in the visualisation and exploration of complex data and sharing obtained knowledge with other people.

Engaging with Emotions - The Role of Emotion in HCI

The aim of this workshop is to bring together and support the growing community in the field of emotion-related HCI research. The emphasis will be on discussion and joint work on topics such as theoretical fundamentals, emotion detection affairs, affective applications, and ethical and legal issues.

Special Session on Affective Computing and Adaptive Human-Machine Interaction

The 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

IEEE RO-MAN06 student contest

MY ROBOT COMPANION - CALL FOR POSTER PROPOSALS: ROBOT COMPANION DESIGN CONTEST FOR STUDENTS @ RO-MAN 06: The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 6-8 September 2006, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. Sponsored by: COGNIRON, the IST-FET Integrated Project on "Cognitive Robot Companions" (www.cogniron.org). Submit a robot design and you may win a prize!

AI and Ambient Entertainment

In this FLAIRS Special Track we look at games and other leisure activities that require and encourage physical body movements. Hence, we look at bodily and gestural interaction with game and leisure environments equipped with sensors (cameras, microphones, touch and proximity sensors) and some application-dependent intelligence (allowing reactive and proactive activity). Interpretation of the bodily interaction, requiring domain-dependent artificial intelligence, needs to be done by the environment and the agents that maintain the interaction with the human partner. In the display of reactive and pro-active activity embodied virtual agents play an important role.

IFIP ICEC 2006

5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing: 20-22 September 2006 Cambridge (UK) Under the auspice of IFIP. Web site: http://www.icec2006.org/

MISUSE AND ABUSE OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

The goal of this special issue is to address the darker side of HCI by examining how computers sometimes bring about the expression of negative emotions and disinhibited behaviour

Symposium on AFFECTIVE SMART ENVIRONMENTS

An interdisciplinary meeting focused on methods and techniques for integrating affective and social factors in ambient intelligence.

Interdisciplinary Workshop on "The Phonetics of Laughter"

Research investigating the production, acoustics and perception of laughter is very rare. This is striking because laughter occurs as an everyday and highly communicative phonetic activity in spontaneous discourse. This workshop aims to bring researchers together from various disciplines to present their data, methods, findings, research questions, and ideas on the phonetics of laughter (and smiling).

HUMAINE Plenary Meeting 2007: Prospects for emotion-oriented systems - final appraisal

This plenary session is designed to achieve closure on the EU funded phase of the network’s activity; to identify what has been learned from that activity by drawing contrasts with the ideas set out in the opening plenary session; and to point forward by articulating the tasks that are now in front of the network members.

IST06 Networking Session "Embodied Emotion, Cognition and Action for Autonomous and Interactive Artifacts"

In the perspective of “networking across ‘islands’ with common interest”, the goal of the proposed session is twofold: (a) to provide a framework for projects with a common interest in embodied emotion and cognition to learn about one another and explore opportunities for interaction in the short term; and (b) to draft a longer-term “research agenda” for this area that can also lead to concrete projects within FP7.

AISB Symposium Mindful Environments

The aim of this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to discuss the state of the art of the research on theory of mind (ToM), computational models of ToM and systems that are directed towards the ability to recognize and represent the intentions and other aspects of the mental state. Another aim of this workshop is to discuss how the computational models could inform empirical and theoretical research in human social processes, through formalization and simulation, for instance.

ParaLing'07: Paralinguistic speech - between models and data

This two-day workshop is concerned with the general area of paralinguistic speech, and will place special emphasis on attempts to narrow the gap between "models" (usually built making strong simplifying assumptions) and "real data" (usually showing a high degree of complexity).

Follow-up to IST'06 Networking Session "Embodied Emotion, Cognition and Action for Autonomous and Interactive Artifacts"

Follow-up folder with material from the IST'06 Networking Session "Embodied Emotion, Cognition and Action for Autonomous and Interactive Artifacts," and a WIKI facility to continue the discussions initiated at the session.

Extended Deadline - Symposium on AFFECTIVE SMART ENVIRONMENTS

This symposium is to gather researchers from the fields of ambient intelligent and affective computing to discuss diverse issues of the shared field of interest of affective smart environments.

Conceptualizing emotion

The workshop aims to clarify the ways in which emotions are best understood and conceptualized, with particular emphasis on interactions with machines and computing. It is envisaged as a rather specialized and limited event (between 20-30 participants, mostly from HUMAINE) in which most participants will also present and The main focus will be discussion rather than full-fledged theoretical papers.

Embodied Language Processing

There has been a growing interest within the ACL community in extending the traditional focus on text and speech beyond the confines of natural language towards the inclusion of paralinguistic and non-verbal modes of communication, and beyond the confines of task-oriented language towards the inclusion of social and psychological variables such as attitude and affect. Studies of embodied dialogue systems, emotional expressiveness in speech, and personality detection in text are just a few examples of such research. These new extensions to computational linguistics have found a home in a number of different applications, from analysis of military videos to the development of Ambient Intelligent applications, where natural modes of interaction between humans and machines are envisioned that exploit the full bandwidth of human communication.

Workshop - Emotion and Computing at KI 2007

2nd Workshop "Emotion and Computing" -- Current Research and Future Impact

ICANN '07 special session - Emotion and Attention: Empirical Findings and Neural Models

The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organised by the European Neural Networks Association (ENNS). We are organising a HUMAINE-based special session on Emotion and Attention: Empirical Findings and Neural Models, please get in touch if you would like to contribute.

SI on Abuse and Misuse of Social agents

This special issue of Interacting with Computers addresses the negative side of human-computer interaction.

Ambient & Artifical Intelligence

The AISB convention is an annual event organised as a number of collocated symposia interspersed with invited plenary talks. In addition to symposia related to the theme of the convention (artificial and ambient intelligence) a number of other symposia.

Human and Artificial Agents Emotional Interaction: Models and Applications

Researchers from several disciplines have been trying to understand and re-create emotion in the user interface. Emotional models have been proposed as a critical component of more effective human computer interaction, suggesting that emotions should not be considered a simple optional providing pleasantness, but crucial cues as they are involved in management of H-M joint-action. In this perspective, emotion and the ability to ”measure” the user emotional response are now considered as an important key to implement intelligent interfaces, aimed at producing believable and satisfying interactions.

Springer book cfp: Affect and Emotion in HCI

Springer will publish a book on affect and emotion in Human-Computer Interaction. You are invited to submit papers.

ACII 2007

The second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2007) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, and will be a meeting point for researchers studying and developing the role of emotion and other affective phenomena as these relate to human-computer and human-robot interaction, graphics, AI, robotics, vision, speech, synthetic characters, games, educational software, and related areas.

icdl 2007

The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together this interdisciplinary audience to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different disciplines. Now in its 6th year, ICDL 2007 will have the theme of "Assisting Development" to encourage participants to consider the application of their research to the conceptualization, design and implementation of systems that can assist development.

Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA'07

IVA'07 is an interdisciplinary conference, bringing together researchers, industrialists and users in the fields of interactive graphics, animation, computer games, cognitive modelling and human-computer interaction.

ELSNET Summer School Belfast 2007

The ELSNET Summer School 2007 takes as its theme 'Advanced Dialogue Systems: Affectivity, Adaptability and Multimodality', and covers everything from basic prompt and response systems to systems that adapt to the user's level of experience and emotional state. Alongside discussion of latest trends in dialogue system development in industry and academia, practical sessions include use of ECAs (Greta), VoiceXML, SSML and related technologies. The school also includes guidance for assessing how well implemented systems are actually working.

Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems

In the past 6 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual conference has established itself as a unique place where original interdisciplinary research from developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence is being presented.

Final Plenary Session of HUMAINE

The final plenary session of the HUMAINE NoE will provide an overview of the main results of the network, interactive sessions, discussions and demonstrations, and plans for the follow up of the network. Industrial and academic researchers external to HUMAINE will also attend.

Modeling and Scaffolding Affective Experiences to Impact Learning

Learning is accompanied by episodes of success and failure that inevitably invoke a host of associated affective responses. While, the last decade has been ripe with research investigating the interplay between emotions and learning, there are several open challenges hindering progress in this area. These include empirical and theoretical questions such as: (1) What are the emotions that are important to learning? (2) How are they linked with cognition and meta-cognitive processes (e.g. self-regulation and goal orientation)? Additionally, the effectiveness of one-on-one tutoring in promoting active knowledge construction has extended the role of affective modeling beyond traditional classroom environments and into the arena of integrated learning environments. This transition requires innovative computational approaches to construct online affect-sensitive learner models and utilize these models to detect and respond to the learner's affect to potentially optimizing learning. Researchers interested in these challenges range from multiple disciplines associated with the learning sciences such as psychology, education, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. Since many of these researchers share the same goals of developing learning environments that effectively coordinate pedagogy with the learner's emotions, the proposed workshop seeks to create cross talk between the areas.

Tutorial on 'Affective Natural Language Generation', in the scope of User Modeling 2007

Website: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/tut_ANLH.php Organizers: Fiorella de Rosis (University of Bari) and Chris Mellish (University of Aberdeen)

Workshop on Tagging, Mining and Retrieval of Human Related Activity Information - At the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI

Inexpensive and user friendly cameras, microphones, and other devices such as digital pens are making it increasingly easy to capture, store and process large amounts of data over a variety of media. This opportunity has been embraced by a large number of people, and resulted in the availability of high volumes of digital photos, videos, audio recordings. Additional opportunities present themselves for capture of even richer data, for example during lectures, meetings, or informal gatherings. Even though the barriers for data acquisition have been lowered, making use of these data remains challenging. Effective use presupposes a large investment in manual organization, e.g. by careful, labor-intensive labeling of data, manual clustering (e.g. via foldering), or manual extraction and transcription of important information. As a result of the difficulties involved in finding and reusing information, particularly as the volume grows, large amounts of collected data remains unused and inaccessible. Because of that, the collection efforts tend to be abandoned, or not even implemented, given the low immediate payoff and the high cost of organization. More importantly, information that could lead to enhanced performance during learning or work situations remain untapped. The focus of the present workshop is therefore on issues related to theory, methods and techniques for facilitating the organization, retrieval and reuse of multimodal information. The emphasis is on organization and retrieval of information related to human activity, i.e. that is generated and consumed by individuals and groups as they go about their work, learning and leisure.

Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction

You are cordially invited to become part of the third workshop dealing with affect and emotion in HCI. Send us your ideas, descriptions of current work, or critical views on developments in the field!

7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'07)

Call for Participation to IVA 2007 IVA'07 will be a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with an interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications.

Socio-technical Systems: Design and Use

Symposium I of the 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and System Research (EMCSR 2008). The borders between the social and the technical disappear progressively: while human-human relationships become more and more technology-mediated, human-machine interactions create illusions and expectations of sociality. the symposium brings together research on the use and design of such systems, with special regard to intercultural issues.

AAAI Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality and Social Behavior

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. Submissions:8 pages, AAAI Conference format.

Measuring Affect in HCI - Going Beyond The Individual

The measurement of affect in HCI research is a challenging and complex issue. Although a number of techniques for measuring affect have been developed, a systematic discussion of their effectiveness and applicability in different contexts remains lacking, especially in social contexts with multiple users. As computing shifts to increasingly collaborative and ubiquitous models, it is important to discuss affect measurement beyond the individual level. This workshop will provide a forum where designers, practitioners, and researchers can 1) introduce novel methods of affect measurement that go beyond physiological and self-report measures, 2) advance our understanding of existing measurement methods and how they can be expanded, and 3) critically evaluate issues of affect measurement.

Special Track on Virtual Agents at AAMAS 08

To provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents, AAMAS-08 will feature a Special Track on Virtual Agents.

Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

This symposium This symposium aims to combine advances in Affective Computing with insights in Psychology and Cognition to shed light on the ways in which affect is communicated by people in their written and spoken language and might be appropriately communicated between people and machines. It concentrates on the ways in which emotion is communicated between humans through their written and spoken language. These ways may or may not suggest ways in which emotions might be communicated between humans and machines.

EduTainment 2008

The third International Conference on E-learning and Games is an international forum for researchers to share their latest research output on the development and application of e-learning and digital entertainment systems

eNTERFACE’08 international summer workshop on multimodal interfaces

eNTERFACE08 is the next of a series of successful workshops initiated by SIMILAR, the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on Multimodal interfaces. eNTERFACE'08 will follow the fruitful path opened by eNTERFACE05 in Mons, Belgium, continued by eNTERFACE06 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and eNTERFACE07 in Istambul, Turkey. SIMILAR came to an end in 2007, and the eNTERFACE workshops are now under the aegis of the OpenInterface Foundation.

Sistemi emotivi

On 29 November 2007, the Foundation Palazzo Strozzi in Florence opens new CCCS-Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, a space devoted to the comparison between the different approaches and different practices that characterize the production of cultural and artistic

NIME 2008 - 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for MusicalExpression

On behalf of the NIME 2008 Committee, we would like to invite you to be part of the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, organized by Casa Paganini InfoMus Lab - Università degli Studi di Genova in collaboration with Regione Liguria, Comune di Genova - Ufficio Paganiniano, Conservatorio di Musica "Niccolò Paganini", GOG - Giovine Orchestra Genovese, Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Museo Villa Croce.

Workshop satellite of LREC 2008: CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT

Papers may raise one or more of the following questions. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? How should access to corpora be provided? What level of standardization is appropriate? How can quality be assessed? Ethical issues in database development and access.

Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008) 27 May, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco

Special Issue of CSL: "Affective Speech in real-life interactions"

The motivation of this special issue is to report innovative work on the modelling and generation of affect in real-life speech and spoken interaction (including human-human or human-machine interaction, multi-party interaction) or in “realistic” interactions (including realistic fictions) - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15, 2008 -

International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Affectual and Emotional Interactions

CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational modeling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic realisation, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction.

Workshop on Affect-aware Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction

The workshop takes place during the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08)

IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

2nd PEACH Summer School: Technologies and Applications

The Second PEACH Summer School: 9-11th July 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia "Technologies and Applications"

ICMPC-Rencon

``Rencon'' is the project of musical performance RENdering CONtests since 2002. The newest Rencon workshop will be held on the co-host of ICMPC10. There will be two sections in the contest: an autonomous section, and a type-in section. An open section is planned, in order to make RENCON appealing also for performance rendering systems not focusing on piano performance.

Workshop on Multimodal Corpora at LREC 2008

The focus of this LREC'2008 workshop on multimodal corpora will be on models of natural interaction and their contribution to the design of multimodal systems and applications.

Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction - Designing for People -

Emotion are what make our interactions human. Discuss how technology can live up to this, which issues might arise, and how to approach these!

Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction - Designing for People -

Emotion are what make our interactions human. Discuss how technology can live up to this, which issues might arise, and how to approach these!

AFFINE - Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation for virtual agents and robots

The First AFFINE workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments will be hosted at the Tenth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) to be held in Chania, Crete, on the 24th of October 2008, following the main conference. The duration of the workshop is one day.