In conjunction with ACII 2019, Cambridge UK
EMERGent
Emotions and Emergent States in Groups
@ACII'19, Cambridge, UK - September 3, 2019
ABSTRACT

The study of affect in groups, although a major goal of affective computing, has received relatively less attention compared to modeling individual affect. This is primarily because studying affect in an interactive, multiparty setting is more complex, and often, not very well defined outside specific applications. Moreover, affective computing has yet not addressed group affective dynamics as a potential driver of emergent states. These include pivotal group phenomena such as trust, conflict, and cohesion, and evolve over time as group members explicitly and implicitly interact to coordinate their actions and achieve objectives. This workshop will provide a unique occasion to gather researchers and practitioners working on approaches for sensing, analyzing, and modeling group emotion and emergent states from a multidisciplinary perspective, including psychological, ethnological, sociological, pedagogical, and computational viewpoints.

TOPICS

Possible topics include:

  • Theoretical approaches to affective dynamics and resulting emergent states in groups
  • Research design: from controlled lab settings to groups in the wild
  • Data collection, annotation, and sharing
  • Approaches for analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions
  • Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation
  • Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)
SUBMISSION
  • Submission deadline: June 17, 2019 (midnight PST)
  • Submission deadline EXTENDED: June 24, 2019 (midnight PST)
  • Notification deadline: July 7, 2019
  • Camera-ready deadline: July 19 (extended), 2019
  • Date of workshop: September 3, 2019

Submissions should be in the form of long papers (7 pages; 6 pages + 1 page for references) or poster papers (4 pages; 3 pages + 1 page for references). Submissions should follow the paper format for the ACII conference, details here: http://acii-conf.org/2019/submission. The reviewing process for the workshop will be “double blind”: the submitted version of the paper should be appropriately anonymized not to reveal either the authors’ identities or institutions.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 experts from our international program committee. Accepted papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore. Exploration of a special issue from the workshop is underway.

Submissions should be made to the following easychair site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acii2019

SCHEDULE

09:00 - 09:05: Opening

09:05 - 10:30: Session I

  • Keynote speech - Towards Measuring Team Cohesion Over Time: Past, Present, and Future, H. Hung
  • Automatic Group Level Affect and Cohesion Prediction in Videos, G. Sharma, S. Ghosh and A. Dhall
  • Short poster presentation - Streaming Behaviour: Livestreaming as a Paradigm for Analysis of Emotional and Social Signals, C. Ringer and M. A. Nicolaou

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30: Session II

  • Estimating Romantic, Social, and Sexual Attraction by Quantifying Bodily Coordination using Wearable Sensors, Ö. Kapcak, J. Vargas and H. Hung
  • Joint analysis of verbal and nonverbal interactions in collaborative E-learning, M. Piot, T. Alabarbe, J. Gonzalez, C. Le Bail, L. Prevost, J. Bourdeau, F.X. Bernard, M. Baker and F. Detienne
  • Smile Intensity Detection in Multiparty Interaction using Deep Learning, P. Witzig, J. Kennedy and C. Segalin

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Session III

  • Detecting F-formations & Roles in Crowded Social Scenes with Wearables: Combining Proxemics & Dynamics using LSTMs, A. Rosatelli, E. Gedik and H. Hung
  • Towards automatic estimation of conversation floors within F-formations, C. Raman and H. Hung

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 - 17:30: Session IV

  • Keynote speech - From one to many: Affect analysis in multi-person settings, H. Gunes
  • Your Body Reveals Your Impressions about Others: A Study on Multimodal Impression Detection, C. Wang, T. Pun and G. Chanel
  • Keynote speech - Capturing group affective phenomena: Verbal and nonverbal dynamics in real team interactions, N. Lehmann-Willenbrock
ORGANIZERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  • Xavier Alameda-Pineda - INRIA, France
  • Oya Aran - De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
  • Alessandro D’Ausilio - Università di Ferrara, IIT Ferrara, Italy
  • Francesca D’Errico - Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
  • Theodora Chaspari - Texas A&M University, USA
  • Chloé Clavel - Telecom-ParisTech, France
  • Ekin Gedik - Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
  • Donald Glowinski - Université de Genève, Switzerland
  • Peter Keller - Western Sidney University, Australia
  • Agata Lapedriza - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
  • Jeremy Lee - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • Ming Li - Duke University, USA
  • Gelareh Mohammadi - University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Catharine Oertel - EPFL, Switzerland
  • Ana Paiva - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Christopher Peters - KTH, Sweden
  • Ronald Poppe - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Victor Sanchez - University of Warwick, U.K.
  • Tanmay Sinha - ETH, Switzerland
  • Albert Ali Salah - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Khiet Truong - University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Zhaojun Yang - Facebook
SUPPORTERS
  • This workshop has been supported by the French National Agency (ANR) in the frame of its Technological Research JCJC program (GRACE, project ANR-18-CE33-0003).
  • This workshop partly received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 765955 (ANIMATAS InnovativeTraining Network).
CONTACTS
  • Giovanna Varni (giovanna.varniATtelecom-paristech.fr)
  • Naveen Kumar (Naveen.KumarATdisney.com)