Call for Paper: 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018)

Location: Beijing, China 
Website: http://acii-asia-2018.org/index.html

Important Dates: 
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018 
Notification of Acceptance: 6 March 2018 
Camera Ready Papers Due: 23 March 2018 
Conference: 20 -22 May 2018 

The first AAAC Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018) is the premier Asian forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. ACII Asia 2018 will be held in the historic city Beijing, China 20-22 May 2018. 

The theme of ACII Asia 2018 will be “Affective Intelligence”. ACII Asia 2018 will emphasize the collaboration between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life) and highlight the impact and applications of affective computing technologies in the wider world. Within affective science more broadly, there is an explosion of interest in realizing more natural human-computer interaction by taking affective computing into consideration. Also, understanding of how emotion is represented in the brain and how it shapes the body in biological processes is welcomed in ACII Asia 2018. 

The meeting will be jointly hosted by the Technical Committee on Human-Computer-Interaction of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), the Technical Committee on Artificial Psychology and Artificial Emotion of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Local Interest Group Asia of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) and Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science (CASIA). 

Proceedings are proposed to be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. 

The conference will address, but is not limited to the following topics: 

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect: 
• Motion Capture for Affect Recognition 
• Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior 
• Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition 
• Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis 
• Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis 
• Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modelling and Animation 
• Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.) 
• Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.) 


Affective Interfaces: 
• Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments 
• Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces 
• Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems 
• Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces 
• Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces 
• Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces 


Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems: 
• Ethical Issues in Affective Computing 
• Computational Models of Emotional Processes 
• Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 
• Social and Behavioral Science Involving Affective Computing 
• Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems 


Affective and Social Robotics and Virtual Agents: 
• Embodied Issues in Emotion 
• Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents 
• Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action 
• Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents 
• Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics 
• Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents 
• Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics 


Affective Applications: 
• Biometrics 
• Affective Databases and Annotation Tools 
• Virtual Reality, Entertainment, Education, Ambient Intelligence