International Workshop on Computational Aspects
of Affectual and Emotional Interaction
(CAFFEi 2008)

http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/

21 July 2008, Patras, Greece

in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008)

NEWS

13 Sep:
Workshop proceedings available on-line.

17 Jun:
Workshop programme announced.

27 Apr:
Keynote talk title and abstract available.
CAFFEi date fixed.

11 Apr:
Deadline extended, due to numerous requests. Third CFP, announcing extension.

18 Mar:
Second CFP, announcing submission details.

13 Mar:
Prof.Dr. E. André to deliver keynote talk.

23 Feb:
Prof. Y. Wilks' talk cancelled due to personal reasons.

4 Feb:
First CFP

29 Jan:
Style files available

25 Jan:
Web-site on-line

Overview

A key enabling technology for next-generation artificial intelligence agents for the service, domestic and entertainment market is natural human-computer interaction. An AI agent that collaborates with humans on a daily basis requires interactive skills that go beyond present-day language technology: seamless and natural interaction requires that the AI agent is able to correctly interpret (and to some some extend also generate) linguistic signals that involve the emotional state of the person they interact with, to behave differently in different emotional contexts, to exhibit a different personality in order to co-operate well with humans having different personalities, and to correctly interpret humour or irony.

CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational modelling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic realization, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction.

Invited Speaker

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André, (University of Augsburg, Germany)

Title: Acted versus Spontaneous Emotions: Challenges for Multi-Channel Emotion Recognition (abstract)

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Topics

CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational modelling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic realization, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• affect and emotion recognition and generation, and particularly linguistic aspects thereof in text and speech;
• personality trait modelling, and impact of computer personality traits and affect analysis on natural language generation and dialogue management;
• evaluation of emotional impact of automatically generated text;
• evaluation methods for emotion-sensitive parsing, generation, and dialogue management;
• emotion text classification and affect text classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-computer or human-human interaction;
• generating and recognizing humour and irony;
• non-linguistic aspects of human-computer interaction, such as facial, gesture, and posture recognition, audio signal processing, avatars and virtual faces, etc., especially when used in conjunction to linguistic interaction modalities.

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Important Dates

Submissions: 18 April 2008 (Extended)
Notification: 19 May 2008
Registration: 30 May 2008
Camera Ready: 4 June 2008
Workshop day: 21 July 2008

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Paper Submissions

The language of the conference will be English and we invite research papers, work-in-progress papers, and position papers. All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme committee.

Workshop proceedings will be prepared in paper and on CD-ROM. Each participant will receive a hardcopy of CAFFEi proceedings, as well as a CD with the proceedings of all ECAI'08 workshops. Workshop authors will maintain the copyrights of their papers, but will be required to sign a form allowing inclusion in the proceedings. The possibility of a journal special issue will be discussed during the workshop.

Submissions should follow the style described in the ECAI-08 guidelines and be up to 10 pages in length, including title, author names, abstract, body, and references. Please use PDF as file format. Latex styles files implementing ECAI guidelines can be found here: http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/documents/ecai2008.zip .

Papers may be submitted to ECAI (main conference) as well as CAFFEi with the right to retract your submission if accepted at ECAI. Please mention in the submission email whether you have also submitted to ECAI.

Submissions should be made by email to caffei-submissions@iit.demokritos.gr with the submission PDF attached. In case of unusually large files or need for any other clarifications, please email at the same address.

Receipt of submission emails will be explicitly acknowledged within 24 hours.

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Registration

Workshop attendants are required to register to the main conference and to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted workshop paper is required to register by the camera-ready submission deadline. Registration will be done through the ECAI-08 registration site, http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/registration.htm.

CAFFEi authors will be able to register at early-registration dates, regardless of the early-registration set for ECAI participants in general.

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Organization

Co-chairs

Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos"
Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh

Organizing Commitee

Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos"
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vassiliki Rentoumi, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vassilis Spiliopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Athanasios Tegos, NCSR "Demokritos"

Program Committee

Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH and Saarland University, Germany
Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rob Malouf, San Diego State University, USA
Tony Mullen, Tsuda University, Japan
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stelios Piperidis, Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Greece
Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK
Marina Sokolova, University of Montreal, Canada
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK

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Sponsors

Sponsored by NCSR Demokritos and INDIGO

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