ACII 2019 invites contributions (papers and abstracts) to the following special tracks:
Neural and Psychological Models of Affect
Computational models of emotion have emerged from the intersection between psychology and other disciplines such as computer science, economics, and neuroscience. These models have attempted to formalize how emotions arise from interacting with the environment and impact subsequent behavioral actions. For example, value associated with specific actions can change based on expectation violations (e.g., reward prediction error), beliefs about counterfactual information (e.g., regret), and beliefs about others beliefs (e.g., guilt). These types of models can be used by neuroscientists to characterize how these processes might be encoded in the brain. More recently, neuroscientists have also attempted to identify how affective information might be represented in the brain in the absence of a formal encoding model by decoding a specific affective state from brain activity using supervised learning techniques.
In the spirit of this rich tradition of interdisciplinary work, the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019) invites papers and abstracts to The Neural and Psychological Models of Affect track on research topics focused on understanding how affect is computed in both our minds and brains. Topics of interest might include: computational models of affect from a psychological perspective, modeling affect and emotion using learning and decision-making frameworks, and understanding how affect might be encoded and decoded from brain signals measured using neuroimaging techniques (e.g., fMRI, fNIRS, PET, EEG/iEEG,ECOG, or MEG). The goal of the neural and psychological models of affect track is to provide an opportunity for continued interaction and cross-fertilization between the ACII community and researchers from the broader psychology and neuroscience communities studying affective science.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Reinforcement Learning (How does affect impact learning?)
Decision-Making (How does affect impact decision-making?)
Neuroeconomics/Decision Neuroscience (How is affective value represented in the brain?)
Computational Psychiatry (How is affect impaired in psychopathology?)
Affective neuroscience (How is affect encoded in the brain?)
Organizers:
Luke Chang (Dartmouth College), Giorgio Coricelli (University of Southern California)
The organizers together bring expertise from the areas of psychology, economics, reinforcement-learning, neuroeconomics, and cognitive/affective/social neuroscience.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 12 April 2019 23 April 2019 (same as regular papers)
Conference dates: 3-5 September 2019
Submission:
We invite abstract or full paper submissions to this Special Track:
Full papers should conform to regular paper guidelines. If accepted, they will appear in the proceedings and included in the digital library (unless authors explicitly request their submission is not to be published)
Abstracts should be written in English and have a maximum length of 400 words. Abstracts will not be included in the digital library but will be available on the conference website.
Accepted contributions will be presented as posters or short talks
All submission will undergo full review by anonymous and independent reviewers
Abstracts/Papers submitted to this Special Sessions should be submitted through the ACII submission system following the same schedule as regular ACII papers. When submitting your abstract/paper please select the Special Track “The Neural and Psychological Models of Affect” in the ACII submission system, and your preference for a short talk or a poster presentation.
Technological and Biological Bodies in Dialogue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multisensory Embodied Emotion and Cognition
The last two decades have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of human cognition and interaction in relation to the role of one’s own body. The once prevailing assumption that the human mind can be understood by examining exclusively cognitive functions and their neural correlates has received considerable criticism. A diverse and growing community of researchers claim that mental abilities are embedded in the acting, sensing and feeling BODY, and are subject to intricate couplings between organisms and their social and technological environments. In parallel, methodological advances in neuroscience, human-computer interaction (HCI), robotics, virtual reality and wearables allow the investigation of the role of the body in cognition and interaction in unprecedented ways. Increasingly cheap and ubiquitous body sensing and feedback technologies offer up new opportunities and ways to alter or enhance body perception but the aims and focus of these investigations may differ between disciplines. For instance, sensory-driven changes in body perception may be used to enhance user engagement and presence in games, and also to increase body awareness for sports or physical rehabilitation and to address psychological and emotional barriers related to body perception in certain medical conditions, or to explore new artistic avenues.
This new understanding of body perception may also affect many aspects of ubiquitous computing systems worn on the body or supporting ambient interaction among bodies. Simultaneously, HCI research provides an opportunity for evaluating and even furthering our understanding of the mechanisms underlying embodied emotion and cognition. This track aims to bring together researchers from different communities interested in the multidisciplinary topic of multisensory body perception. We will discuss body-centred approaches and frameworks, tools and methods for body sensing and sensory feedback, how to use bodily information and potential issues around, and overall, opportunities for interaction between the communities in relation to the track theme, sharing views on how working together can reshape these communities.
Topics of interest (indication, not limited to):
Embodied cognition and emotion
Body-centred computing
Multisensory Body, Affective and Social Perception
Multimodal interactive systems for body sensing and feedback
Opportunities and challenges for body sensing/feedback technology
Approaches for sharing information about one’s body and emotions using body sensing
Body sensing/feedback wearable technology, virtual/mixed reality, avatars, ubiquitous computing
Ethical issues around body sensing/feedback technology
Applications of body sensing/feedback technology (such as rehabilitation, sports, health, games, art, etc)
Keywords:
Multisensory body perception, Body-centred computing, embodied cognition and emotion, body sensing/feedback technology, body representation
Organizers:
Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Stacy Marsella, Aneesha Singh, Katherine Isbister, Katerina Fotopoulou
The organizers together bring experience and views from the areas of affective computing, human-computer interaction and cognitive, affective and social neuroscience. They have already run special interest groups and workshops at conferences on the topic, including CHI 2016, Ubicomp 2016, and World Usability Day 2017.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 12 April 2019 23 April 2019 (same as regular papers)
Conference dates: 3-5 September 2019
Submission:
We invite abstract or full paper submissions to this Special Track:
Full papers should conform to regular paper guidelines. If accepted, they will appear in the proceedings and included in the digital library (unless authors explicitly request their submission is not to be published)
Abstracts should be written in English and have a maximum length of 400 words. Abstracts will not be included in the digital library but will be available on the conference website.
Accepted contributions will be presented as posters or short talks
All submission will undergo full review by anonymous and independent reviewers
Abstracts/Papers submitted to this Special Sessions have to be submitted through the ACII submission system following the same schedule as regular ACII papers. When submitting your abstract/paper please select the Special Track “Technological and Biological Bodies in Dialogue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multisensory Embodied Emotion and Cognition” in the ACII submission system, and your preference for a short talk or a poster presentation.
