[edm-announce] Fwd: CFP: Affect Computing Special Track at FLAIRS 24 (May 18th – 20th, 2011 Palm Beach Florida) - Submission Deadline: November 22, 2010
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CFP: Affective Computing Special Track
Special Track at the 24th International FLAIRS Conference
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Dates:
Paper submission deadline: November 22nd, 2010.
Notifications: January 21st, 2011.
Camera ready version due: February 21st, 2011
FLAIRS-24 conference: May 18th – 20th, 2011
PLEASE SEE https://sites.google.com/site/flairs24affectivecomputing/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI.
The conference will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Rosalind Picard that
is particularly relevant to the Affective Computing special track.
What is Affective Computing?
Affective Computing (AC) is an emerging field that aspires to narrow
the communicative gap between the highly emotional human and the
emotionally challenged computer by developing computational systems
that recognize and respond to the affective states (e.g., moods,
emotions) of the user. The basic tenet behind AC systems is that
automatically recognizing and responding to a user's affective states
during interactions with a computer can enhance the quality of the
interaction, thereby making the computer interface more usable,
enjoyable, and effective. For example, an affect-sensitive learning
environment that detects and responds to student frustration is
expected to increase motivation, engagement, and learning gains.
What is a special track?
FLAIRS special tracks are held in parallel with the general FLAIRS
conference. A special track consists of a group of papers in a
sub-discipline of artificial intelligence. Special tracks are an
integral part of each FLAIRS conference: their papers are required to
meet the same standards and are published in the conference
proceedings, and the tracks run in parallel with the general
conference. Special tracks provide researchers in focused areas the
opportunity to meet and present their work, and offer a forum for
interaction among the broader community of artificial intelligence
researchers
What is the goal of the Affective Computing track?
This special track will serve as a forum to unite researchers from the
interdisciplinary arena that encompasses computer science,
engineering, HCI, psychology, and education to exchange ideas,
frameworks, methods, and tools relating to Affective Computing.
Although the last decade has been ripe with theory and applications
relevant to AC, these advances are accompanied by a new set of
challenges. By providing a framework to discuss and evaluate novel
research, we hope to leverage recent advances to speed-up future
research in this area.
Who might be interested?
Building affect-aware computer applications is a highly
interdisciplinary endeavor that spans computer science, engineering,
AI, HCI, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, education, and many
others.
What are the topics of interest?
Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to
Affective Computing. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way
limited to)
1. Basic research on affect, cognition, and motivation
2. Individual differences and contextual influences on user affect
3. Affect detection from facial feature tracking, vocal cues, body
language, and gestures
4. Affect detection from text (sentiment analysis, opinion mining, etc)
5. Affect detection from physiology and brain imaging
6. Multimodal affect detection
7. Computational models of emotion
8. Affect synthesis by embodied conversational agents, robots, etc
9. Strategies to help users regulate affect
10. Temporal dynamics of affective states
11. Emotion perception by humans
12. Methodological issues in affective computing
13. Affect-aware applications such as learning environments, gaming
systems, robots, interventions for individuals suffering from autism
spectrum disorders, etc
14. Evaluating affect-aware applications
15. Cognitive Load
Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted,
in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the
reviewing process).
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI
formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not
submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in
review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for a poster) and
are due by November 22nd, 2010. For FLAIRS-24, the 2011 conference,
the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and
affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind
reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair
conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference
web site (http://www.flairs-24.info/). Note: do not use a fake name
for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is
hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the Affective Computing
special track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be
published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to
sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI.
FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration
per paper.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs-24.info/ for further information.
Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.
Organizing Committee
Sidney D’Mello, University of Memphis, sdmello@xxxxxxxxxxx
Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, rafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Program Committee
Shazia Afzal
Omar Alzoubi
Ryan Baker
Amber Chauncey
Nick Duran
Art Graesser
Md. Sazzad Hussein
Blair Lehman
James Lester
Diane Litman
Mahbubur Rahman
Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez
Marc Schröder
Carlo Strapparava
Further Information
Questions regarding the Affective Computing Special Track should be
addressed to the track co-chairs:
Sidney D’Mello, University of Memphis, sdmello@xxxxxxxxxxx
Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, rafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to Chutima
Boonthum, chutima.boonthum@xxxxxxxxx
Conference Chair: Hans Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand
Local Arrangements Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA
Program Co-Chairs: Philip McCarthy, The University of Memphis, USA
Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning, USA
Special Tracks Coordinator: Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA
Conference Web Sites
Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at
http://www.flairs-24.info/
FLAIRS-24 conference web page: http://www.flairs-24.info/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
PLEASE SEE https://sites.google.com/site/flairs24affectivecomputing/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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