**** Special Session on Affective Computational Intelligence ****
SSACI’2014

****           DEADLINE EXTENSION  :   31 Dec 2013             ****

SSACI 2014 part of the next International Conference on Information Processing and
Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems    IPMU 2014,
http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr
that will take place in Montpellier, on July 15-19, 2014.

Taking into account emotions (or more generally affects) is currently
widely explored to improve the quality of human-machine interaction and
to ease the communication with users or potential customers. Affective
or emotional computing covers a wide range of issues, challenges and
approaches, both for emotion simulation (in particular for new
generations of intelligent agents), emotion elicitation, expression and
recognition. The latter is declined along several types of modalities
and media data, such as physiological signals, facial expressions,
speech, text, images and video. Each of these modalities and media
raises specific requirements.

Thus, affective computing raises new challenges for computational
intelligence, regarding e.g. computational representations of emotions
and affective states, on the basis of psychological models, the
architecture of systems modeling and processing these concepts as well
as dedicated machine learning techniques appropriate to deal with the
specificity of the related data.

The special session on Affective Computational Intelligence aims at
gathering researchers from the various disciplines contributing to the
domain, to offer a global and comprehensive overview of the current
state of the art on this challenging and fast developing field.

** Topics  of interest for SSACI 2014 include but are not limited to:

Theories of emotions from psychology and their application to computer
sciences
Computational models and architecture for processing emotions and other
affective states
Management of the uncertainty and imprecision in particular related to
affective states or the associated measurements
Automatic emotion recognition from physiological signals, facial
expressions, body language, speech
Emotion mining in texts, images, videos, film, multimedia data
Affective interaction with virtual agents and robots

** Important dates:

EXTENDED Paper submission: 9 Dec 2013 —–> 31 Dec 2013
Decision: 24 Feb 2014
Final submission: 31 Mar 2014
Conference: 15-19 July 2014

** Submission

Papers should be a maximum of 10 pages Springer format (see submission
guidelines on http://www.ipmu2014.univ-montp2.fr)
Every paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the program
committee.

** SSACI co-organizers

Marie-Jeanne Lesot, LIP6 – Univ. Paris VI, France
Maria Rifqi, LEMMA – Univ. Paris II, France

** SSACI program committee (to be completed)

Gérard Bailly, GIPSA-lab, University of Grenoble, France
Chloé Clavel,  Telecom Paris Tech, France
Vincent Guigue, LIP6 – UPMC, France
Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Joseph Orero, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Catherine Pelachaud, Telecom Paris Tech, France
Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dongrui Wu, GE Global Research, USA

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