AC 2018 - Workshop on Affective Computing in HCI

Affective Computing (AC) has become an emerging and important branch of artificial intelligence. AC’s overarching goal is to create systems that can interpret the emotional state of humans and adapt its behaviour in order to provide intuitive and appropriate emotionally informed responses. The field of AC directly applies to the advancement of HCI and can involve the study and development of systems, techniques and devices that can recognise, interpret, process and manage human emotional states.
This workshop provides a forum for exchange and discussion on affective computing in HCI, such as emotion detection, human and machine interaction, mood tagging, emotion modelling, semantic representation, affective support and tutoring, psychophysiology (GSR, EEG, HRV studies), mental health and wellbeing, positive computing.
Research topics
This workshop specifically addresses AC in a HCI context and the proposed workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
AC analysis techniques in HCI
Emotion recognition and detection algorithms
Computational modelling for affective and emotional monitoring
Facial/Speech/Text/Sentiment mining in emotion recognition
AC in transportation HCI
Emotion monitoring/tracking technology
AC in the home environment
AC in learning systems
Mobile and cloud based AC
Taking AC into the Wild
AC challenges for HCI
AC use cases in HCI
Psychophysiology (GSR, EEG, HRV studies)
Mental health and wellbeing using positive computing
Cognate areas
For Submission Guidelines: See – http://hci2018.bcs.org/index.php/call-for-papers/
Program chairs or co-chairs:
Alfie Keary, Department of Computer Science, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
Prof. Huiru (Jane) Zheng, Professor, School of Computing, Ulster University, UK. Email: h.zheng-AT-ulster.ac.uk
Dr. Raymond Bond, Lecturer, School of Computing, Ulster University, UK. Email: rb.bond-AT-ulster.ac.uk
Prof. Paul Walsh, Department of Computer Science, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland