ERM4HCI 2014 - 2nd International Workshop on "Emotion representations and modelling in Human-Computer Interaction systems" (ERM4HCI 2014)

Organizers: Kim Hartmann, Björn Schuller, Ronald Böck, Klaus R. Scherer
To develop user adaptable Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the role of emotions occurring during interaction gained in attention over the past years. Emotions, being widely accepted as essential to Human-Human interaction, became increasingly interesting for system designers of affective interfaces in order to provide natural, user-centred interaction. However, to adequately incorporate emotions in modern HCI systems, results from varying research disciplines must be combined. The 2nd ERM4HCI concentrates on emotion representations, the characteristics used to describe and identify emotions and their relation to personality and user state models (such as age, gender, physical/cognitive load, etc.). Researchers are encouraged to discuss possible interdependencies of characteristics on an intra- and inter- modality level. Interdependencies of characteristics may occur if two characteristics are influenced by the same physiological change in the observed user, but other factors (technical, constructive, etc.) can cause interdependencies as well. The workshop aims at identifying a minimal set of characteristics to represent and recognise emotions in multi-modal affective HCI. The workshop addresses some of the typical issues arising in multi-modal data processing for affective systems, such as timing aspects, confidence metrics, discretisation issues and issues related to the translation between different emotion models.