[iva] Call for Submissions: Affective Computing Preconference at SAS2026

[Jonathan Gratch]

Call for Submissions
Affective Computing: Bridging Computer and Affective Sciences
Preconference at the 2026 Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Meeting
<https://society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-annual-conference/>Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.
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.
We especially encourage contributions that:

  *   Focus on human affect, emotion, or interpersonal communication
  *   Integrate computational and theoretical perspectives
  *   Bridge disciplinary boundaries between affective science, computer science, and related fields


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.
Submission Opens: December 1, 2025
Submission Deadline: January 9, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: TBA
Submission Link: TBA
For questions, please contact the organizers:

  *   Jeffrey Girard, Ph.D. (University of Kansas, jmgirard at ku.edu<mailto:jmgirard at ku.edu>)
  *   Jonathan Gratch, Ph.D. (University of Southern California, gratch at ict.usc.edu<mailto:gratch at ict.usc.edu>)


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Jonathan Gratch
people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/<https://people.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/>
Director, Research Professor of CS and Psych
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
12015 Waterfront Drive Playa Vista, CA 90094

Associate Editor:  Affective Science, Emotion Review
Founding-EIC IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing


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