Emotional and Affective Computing

Emotional and Affective Computing
October, 12-15, 2009, Aveiro, Portugal

The Emotional and Affective Computing will be held as a Thematic Track of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, October, 12-15, 2009, in Aveiro, Portugal. The track on Emotional and Affective Computing (EAC) will focus on the role of affect, emotion and social behaviour in the development of computer systems. Organizers would like to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on the combination of rational and affective aspects. Papers are welcome in the following areas:

• Computational models of emotions
• Emotion recognition
• Social Web
• Personality in Agents Architectures
• Emotion and learning
• Artificial characters
• Emotion and memory
• Emotion content classification and affect content classification
• Using reputation and trust models in social interactions
• Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions
• Infrastructure and policy for affective computing
• Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems
• Affective Computing
• Ambient Intelligence
• Social aspects of globally distributed computing
• New forms of education, entertainment and social relations

Important Dates

• Deadline for paper submission: April 15, 2009
• Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2009
• Deadline for final versions: July 15, 2009
• Conference dates: October 12-15, 2009