International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Affectual and Emotional Interactions

Workshop Details

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.

21 July 2008 - 22 July 2008

Patras, Greece

http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/

Call for Papers
Description and Topics
A key enabling technology for next-generation artificial intelligence agents for the service, domestic and entertainment market is natural human-computer interaction. An AI agent that collaborates with humans on a daily basis requires interactive skills that go beyond present-day language technology: seamless and natural interaction requires that the AI agent is able to correctly interpret (and to some some extend also generate) linguistic signals that involve the emotional state of the person they interact with, to behave differently in different emotional contexts, to exhibit a different personality in order to co-operate well with humans having different personalities, and to correctly interpret humour or irony.
CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational modelling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic realization, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* affect and emotion recognition and generation, and particularly linguistic aspects thereof in text and speech;
* personality trait modelling, and impact of computer personality traits and affect analysis on natural language generation and dialogue management;
* evaluation of emotional impact of automatically generated text;
* evaluation methods for emotion-sensitive parsing, generation, and dialogue management;
* emotion text classification and affect text classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-computer or human-human interaction;
* generating and recognizing humour and irony;
* non-linguistic aspects of human-computer interaction, such as facial, gesture, and posture recognition, audio signal processing, avatars and virtual faces, etc., especially when used in conjunction to linguistic interaction modalities.

Invited Speaker
Prof. Yorick Wilks, Univ. Sheffield (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/) will deliver a talk during the workshop.

Important Dates
Apr 10: paper submission
May 10: notification
May 26: camera-ready copy and author registration
July 21 or 22: workshop date.

Participation and Paper Submission
The language of the conference will be English and we invite research papers, work-in-progress papers, and position papers. All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme committee.
Workshop proceedings will be prepared in paper and on CD-ROM. Each participant will receive a hardcopy of CAFFEi proceedings, as well as a CD with the proceedings of all ECAI'08 workshops. Workshop authors will maintain the copyrights of their papers, but will be required to sign a form allowing the local organizers to include their paper in the workshop's proceedings. The possibility of a journal special issue based on the workshop proceedings will be discussed during the workshop.
Submissions should follow the style described in the ECAI-08 guidelines and be up to 10 pages in length, including title, author names, abstract, and body. Please use PDF as file format. Latex styles files implementing ECAI guidelines can be found here:
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/documents/ecai2008.zip
Paper submission details will be announced at a later date.

Registration
Workshop attendants are required to register to the main conference and to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper is required to register by the camera-ready submission deadline. Registration will be done through the ECAI-08 registration site,
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/registration.htm
CAFFEi authors will be able to register at early-registration dates, regardless of the early-registration set for ECAI participants in general.

Workshop Co-Chairs
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos"
Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Deadline: 10 April 2008

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