[iva] Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies (ERM4CT 2016)

[Ingo Siegert]

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International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion 
Technologies (ERM4CT 2016)

in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2016, Tokyo

www.erm4ct.cogsy.de
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The major goal in human computer interaction (HCI) research and applications 
is to improve the interaction between humans and computers. As interaction is 
often very specific for an individual and generally of  multimodal nature, the 
current trend of multi-modal user-adaptable HCI systems arose over the past 
years. These systems are designed as companions capable of assisting their 
users based on the users’ needs, preferences, personality and affective state. 
Companion systems are dependent on reliable emotion recognition methods in 
order to provide natural, user-centred interactions.

In order to study natural, user-centred interactions, to develop user-centred 
emotion representations and to model adequate affective system behaviour, 
appropriate multi-modal data comprising not just audio and video material must 
be available. Following its ancestor, the ERM4HCI workshop series, the ERM4CT 
workshop focuses on emotion representations, signal characteristics used to 
describe and identify emotions as well as their influence on personality and 
user state models to be incorporated in companion systems. The ERM4CT 2016 
workshop allows the in-depth analysis of technical prerequisites, modelling 
aspects and applications linked to the development of affective, multi-modal, 
user-adapted HCI systems.

Researchers are encouraged to discuss possible interdependencies of 
characteristics on an intra- and  intermodality level. Such interdependencies 
may occur if two characteristics are influenced by the same physiological 
change in the observed user and are especially relevant to multi-modal 
affective systems. Theoretical papers contributing to the understanding of 
emotions in order to aid in the technical modelling of emotions for companion 
systems are welcomed. The workshop supports discussions on the necessary 
prerequisites for consistent emotion representations in multi-modal companion 
systems.

The ERM4CT 2016 workshop is the second joint-workshop aiming at highlighting 
the specific issues associated with the multi-modal emotion representations 
needed for companion technologies. As a further highlight, this year's 
workshop offers a “hands-on” session, where a dataset comprised of 10 
different modalities will be made available prior to the workshop to the 
participants. The participants are encouraged to analyse the dataset in terms 
of emotion recognition, interaction studies, conversational analyses, etc. The 
dataset provided is a snapshot of a new multi-modal dataset (Tornow, et al., 
2016). Researchers are invited to address a specific
research question using this dataset and submit their results to the workshop. 
During the workshop, all results  will be presented and discussed in a 
subsequent panel session.


For further information refer to: 
www.erm4ct.cogsy.de 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: August 28, 2016
Notification of acceptance: October 02, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: October 09, 2016
Workshop date: November 16, 2016


Organizers:

Kim Hartmann, University Magdeburg, Germany
Ingo Siegert, University Magdeburg, Germany
Albert Ali Salah, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Technical Committee:

Michael Tornow, University Magdeburg, Germany
Angelina Thiers, University Magdeburg, Germany


Topics are, but not limited to:

1. Hands-on Dataset evaluations
-Single-modal, two-modal analyses
-Multi-modal analyses
-Emotion detection using bio-physiology
-Subject behaviour description with respect to abnormalities
-Influence of personality traits on subject behaviour
-Conversation and interaction analyses
-Multimodal Feedback analyses

2. Emotion Modelling and Representations
-Multi-modal aspects of emotion recognition, representation and identification
-Physiological background of emotion representations
-Personality models and the incorporation of emotion models
-Interdependencies of features used for emotion recognition
-Relationship between general user states and emotion recognition features

3. Companion Technologies
-Timing in multi-modal interactive scenarios
-Prerequisites for the consistent modelling of emotions in companion systems
-User state specific emotion and disposition modelling
-System response pattern for companion technologies
-System response perceptions within companions
-Companion technology application scenario
-Techniques for adapted system reactions

Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages). All 
submissions should be anonymous and according to the specifications of the ICMI 
2016 (http://icmi.acm.org/2016/index.php?id=authors). The reviewing will be 
double blind, so submissions should be anonymous.
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Ingo Siegert
FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems
Building 03, Room 325
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg Germany
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