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1st International Workshop on Multimodal Affect and Aesthetic Experience (MAAE)

Utrecht, the Netherlands, October, 2020

AIM AND TOPICS

Within attempts to understand art, both past and recent research efforts had focused on exploring accounts given by writers, artists and philosophers as well as on exploring debates about empathy in aesthetic experience. However, both in the aforementioned experiences and in similar ones the affective states resulting or likely to result due to the exposition of the users to art content were not measured but based on written reports on interactive questionnaires about a narrative-verbal form of art. Similarly, recent work has explored the interaction of the human with the urban environment. Depending on its shape and structure, the urban environment can serve as a significant factor for promoting human content, but also contributing to its decline. Measuring multimodal affective reactions would provide the means for better understanding emotions elicited from objects or moments of aesthetic value.

The term “aesthetic experience” corresponds to the inner state of a person exposed to form and content of artistic objects. Exploring certain aesthetic values of artistic objects, as well as interpreting the aesthetic experience of people when exposed to art can contribute towards understanding (a) art and (b) people’s affective reactions to artwork. Focusing on different types of artistic content, such as movies, music, urban art and other artwork, the goal of this workshop is to enhance the interdisciplinary collaboration between affective computing and aesthetics researchers.

TOPICS

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

•              Multimodal data collection in response to artistic objects

•              Emotions and aesthetic experience

•              Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the experience and absorption of aesthetic values

•              Analysis of physiological and behavioural signals captured during aesthetic experience

•              Assessment of affective states in response to movies, music, and other artwork

•              Content analysis of artistic objects (movies, music, paintings, games, etc.)

•              Intrapersonal and interpersonal correlation of multimodal responses during aesthetic experience

•              Neuroaesthetics for studying the underlaying brain mechanisms and sensory, reward, emotional neural processes related to aesthetics

•              Human-habitat interaction and its relation to human content and well-being

IMPORTANT DATES

•              Submission deadline extended: August 20th 2020 August 31st 2020

•              Author notification: September 18th 2020

•              Camera-ready submission: September 30th 2020

•              ICMI 2020: October 2020

PAPERS

We invite the submission of papers (max 8 pages), short papers and demos (max 4 pages) and abstracts (max 1 page).  References do not count towards the page limit. All papers can have additional pages beyond their page limits that are used exclusively for references. 

According to the ICMI 2018 guidelines, the reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors’ names, affiliations or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., “Smith approached this problem by….”) – omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. For templates and examples, please here. Note: Please use the latest ACM_SigConf format for both short and long paper submissions.

The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

SUBMISSION

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maae2020  

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

•              Theodoros Kostoulas (Bournemouth University)

•              Michal Muszynski (University of Geneva and Carnegie Mellon University)

•              Theodora Chaspari (Texas A&M University)

•              Panos Amelidis (Bournemouth University)

INFO AND DETAILS

https://sites.google.com/view/maae2020