Call for Papers:
First International Workshop on Emotion for Sociable Agents
(ESA14; http://www.social-robot.info)
on October 28, 2014
in conjunction with Human Agent Interaction (HAI) 2014
(http://hai-conference.net/hai2014/)
in Tsukuba, Japan
EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 5, 2014
Please contact us at: esa-contact@social-robot.info
IMPORTANT DATES:
September 5, 2014, 23:59 PST – Paper submission deadline (extended)
September 15, 2014 – Notification of acceptance
September 26, 2014 – Camera ready submission
October 28, 2014 – See you in Tsukuba
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In our aim to build soft- and hardware agents that are to appear intelligent and to interact seamlessly with humans we must not neglect the importance of emotions in social interaction. In human interaction, emotions can influence both motivation and conversational content. It is assumed that this is also true for human-agent interaction because social signals (like emotional expressions) produced by computational agents are processed in a similar manner as signals which are produced by humans. Therefore, artificial emotions are used in human-agent interaction (HAI) for several purposes. First of all, artificial emotions allow an embodied agent to react in a more believable and natural manner. Furthermore, simulated emotions can serve as a control mechanism and can be useful to provide feedback to the user about the agent’s internal states.
During the last years the research community has seen a great increase in the number of robotic and virtual agents that express and perceive emotions and, thus, interact in a more human-like and intuitive manner. These socially interactive agents are used for different purposes, e.g. as toys, as educational tools, or as research platforms. Therefore, this half-day workshop will serve as a forum for presentations related to affective computing, virtual humans, and social robotics. Research on emotion encompasses a multitude of subtopics that are of interest to this workshop and we open up a platform to discuss different interdisciplinary perspectives on the role that emotions play in making artificial agents sociable.
Topics of interested to this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- aesthetical design of emotional displays
- recognizing users’ emotions
- multimodal emotional expressions by agents
- emotions in the (long-term) interaction with agents
- modelling emotions for agents
- dynamics of emotional agent interaction
- emotions in the intercultural contexts
- modeling emotions in groups
- acceptance of emotional agents
- methods to research emotional agents
- complexity of computational emotion modelling
SUBMISSION:
We ask researchers to submit papers from 4 up to 6 pages. Papers should be formatted according to the HAI 2014 paper guidelines. They will be presented in 20min talks.
Submit your Paper in PDF format by email.
In order to encourage a discussion facing a large spectrum of usage of emotions in HAI we would like to welcome researches from a broad range of disciplines (e.g. robotics, social sciences, psychology, linguistics).
Accepted papers will be made available on CD and published on the workshop website. Further publication in a journal is in discussion and depends on the number and quality of the submitted papers.