<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"> <div class="WordSection1"> Call for Submissions<o:p></o:p> Affective Computing: Bridging Computer and Affective Sciences<o:p></o:p> Preconference at the 2026 <a href="https://society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-annual-conference/">Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Meeting </a>Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Affective computing is the interdisciplinary study and development of systems that can recognize, interpret, simulate, or respond to human emotions. By combining methods from artificial intelligence, psychology, neuroscience, and the social sciences, affective computing seeks to better understand and model the complex interplay between emotion and behavior. In an era increasingly shaped by human–AI interaction, affective computing provides powerful tools to advance affective science, while affective science offers crucial theoretical grounding for ethical and human-centered technological innovation.<o:p></o:p> Building on our prior preconferences at SAS (2017) and ISRE (2019, 2022, 2024), this event will bring together researchers working at the intersection of affective science and computer science. We invite submissions that showcase cutting-edge work using computational methods—such as machine learning, signal processing, natural language processing, computer vision, or multimodal modeling—to study affective phenomena in humans.<o:p></o:p> We especially encourage contributions that:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Focus on human affect, emotion, or interpersonal communication<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Integrate computational and theoretical perspectives<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Bridge disciplinary boundaries between affective science, computer science, and related fields <o:p></o:p></li></ul> Submissions are welcome for both oral presentations and poster sessions. All accepted work will contribute to an engaging, cross-disciplinary dialogue on the future of affective computing and its role in understanding emotion in context.<o:p></o:p> Submission Opens: December 1, 2025 Submission Deadline: January 9, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: TBA Submission Link: TBA<o:p></o:p> For questions, please contact the organizers:<o:p></o:p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Jeffrey Girard, Ph.D. (University of Kansas, <a href="mailto:jmgirard@ku.edu">jmgirard@ku.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Jonathan Gratch, Ph.D. (University of Southern California, <a href="mailto:gratch@ict.usc.edu">gratch@ict.usc.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></li></ul> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> _______________________________________________________<o:p></o:p> Jonathan Gratch <o:p></o:p> <a href="https://people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/">people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/</a> Director, Research Professor of CS and Psych USC Institute for Creative Technologies 12015 Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094 <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Associate Editor: Affective Science, Emotion Review <o:p></o:p> Founding-EIC IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div style="font-size:8pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> <hr> The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is intended only for the named recipient to whom it was originally addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and permanently delete the e-mail and any attachments.</div> </body> </html>