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Please note that the following schedule is tentative and subject to change.

September 15, 2024

08.00-18.00 Registration (Location: Grosvenor Hotel foyer)
09.00-14.00 Doctoral Consortium
09.00-18.00 Workshops & Tutorials
18.00-20.00 Reception (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

September 16, 2024

08.00-18.00 Registration (Location: Grosvenor Hotel foyer)
09.00-09.15 Opening Ceremony (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)
09.30-10.30 Keynote Speech: Gabriel Skantze (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Oral Session 1a: Large Language Models 1 (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Guillaume Chanel

11.00-11.20 Mostafa M. Amin and Björn W. Schuller “On Prompt Sensitivity of ChatGPT in Affective Computing”
11.20-11.40 Ala N. Tak and Jonathan Gratch “GPT-4 Emulates Average-Human Emotional Cognition from a Third-Person Perspective”
11.40-12.00 Yasaman Etesam, Özge Nilay Yalçın, Chuxuan Zhang and Angelica Lim “Emotional Theory of Mind: Bridging Fast Visual Processing with Slow Linguistic Reasoning”
12.00-12.20 Projna Paromita and Theodora Chaspari “A Linguistic Analysis of the Impact of Team Interactions on Team Performance During Space Exploration Missions”

Oral Session 1b: Mental Health (Location: Kibble Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Tanaya Guha

11.00-11.20 A’Di Dust, Pat Levitt and Maja J Matarić “Behind the Smile: Mental Health Implications of Mother-Infant Interactions Revealed Through Smile Analysis”
11.20-11.40 Varun Reddy, Zhiyuan Wang, Emma Toner, Max Larrazabal, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany Teachman and Laura Barnes “AudioInsight: Detecting Social Contexts Relevant to Social Anxiety from Speech”
11.40-12.00 Akshat Choube, Vedant Das Swain and Varun Mishra “SeSaMe: A Framework to Simulate Self-Reported Ground Truth for Mental Health Sensing Studies”
12.00-12.20 Judith Amores, Javier Hernandez, Kael Rowan and Mary Czerwinski “AImagery: A Multisensory Approach to Anxiety Reduction with AI, Olfactory Stimuli, and Biofeedback-Enhanced Guided Imagery”
12.20-14.00 Lunch Break

Oral Session 2a: Human-Agent Interaction (5 talks) (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Beatrice Biancardi

14.00-14.20 Ryoya Ito, Celso M. de Melo, Jonathan Gratch and Kazunori Terada “Emotional Expression Help Regulate the Appropriate Level of Cooperation with Agents”
14.20-14.40 Motoaki Sato, Takahisa Uchida, Yuichiro Yochikawa, Celso de Melo, Jonathan Gratch and Kazunori Terada “People Negotiate Better with Emotional Human-Like Virtual Agents than Android Robots” Nominated Best Paper Award
14.40-15.00 Lorenzo Parenti, Ziggy O’Reilly, Davide Ghiglino, Federica Floris, Tiziana Priolo, Marwen Belkaid and Agnieszka Wykowska “How Preference Towards Robotic Agents Affects Choice Accuracy in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder”
15.00-15.20 Gayathri Soman, M.V. Judy and Sanjay K. Madria “Regret Emotion Based Reinforcement Learning for Path Planning in Autonomous Agents”
15.20-15.40 Erik van Haeringen and Charlotte Gerritsen “Emotion Contagion in Avatar-Mediated Group Interactions”

Oral Session 2b: Tools and Data for Affective Computing (5 talks) (Location: Kibble Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Carlos Busso

14.00-14.20 Sarra Graja, P. George Lovell and Ken Scott-Brown “AffectRankTrace: a Tool for Continuous and Discrete Affective Annotation During Extended Usability Trials”
14.20-14.40 Thus Karnjanapatchara, Sixia Li, Candy Olivia Mawalim, Kazunori Komatani and Shogo Okada “Incremental Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on HAI Based on Multitask Active Learning with Inter-Annotator Agreement”
14.40-15.00 Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Michael Dietz, Elisabeth André and Florian Lingenfelser “The AffectToolbox: Affect Analysis for Everyone”
15.00-15.20 Antonia Petrogianni, Lefteris Kapelonis, Nikos Antoniou, Sofia Eleftheriou, Petros Mitseas, Dimitris Sgouropoulos, Nassos Katsamanis, Thodoris Giannakopoulos and Shrikanth Narayanan “RobuSER: A robustness Benchmark for Speech Emotion Recognition”
15.20-15.40 Kosmas Pinitas, Nemanja Rasajki, Matthew Barthet, Maria Kaselimi, Konstantinos Makantasis, Antonios Liapis and Georgios Yannakakis “Varying the Context to Challenge Affect Modeling: A Study on FPS Games Engagement Prediction”
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Panel on “Affective computing between regulations and innovation” (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

17.00 – 18.00 Demo Session

Shreya Ghosh, Zhixi Cai, Parul Gupta, Garima Sharma, Abhinav Dhall, Munawar Hayat and Tom Gedeon. Emolysis: A Multimodal Open-Source Group Emotion Analysis and Visualization Toolkit
Thorben Ortmann, Mirco Hülsemann, Qi Wang and Larissa Putzar. EmojiHeroVR: A Virtual Reality Game for Collecting Partially Occluded Emotional Faces
Sarah Saufnay, Elodie Etienne and Michaël Schyns. Improvement of Public Speaking Skills using Virtual Reality: Development of a Training System
Aurélien Léchappé, Maxime Hemon, Jean Delamoye, Cédric Fleury, Mathieu Chollet and Cédric Dumas. Assessing Collaboration Using Multimodal Signals in a Triadic Puzzle-Solving Task in Virtual Reality

September 17, 2024

08.00-18.00 Registration (Location: Grosvenor Hotel foyer)
09.00-10.15 Keynote Speech: Antonio Camurri (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break

Oral Session 3a: Art and Performance (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Nadia Berthouze

10.45-11.05 Prasanth Murali, Natasha Yamane, Javier Hernandez, Stacy Marsella, Matthew Goodwin and Timothy Bickmore “Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing Empathy and Engagement During Public Speaking Through Heart Rate Sharing”
11.05-11.25 Ryo Ueda, Hiromi Narimatsu, Yusuke Miyao and Shiro Kumano “VAD Emotion Control in Visual Art Captioning Via Disentangled Multimodal Representation”
11.25-11.45 Anargh Viswanath, Michael Gref, Teena Hassan and Christoph Schmidt “A Multimodal, Multilabel Approach to Recognize Emotions in Oral History Interviews”
11.45-12.05 Dimitrios Sgouropoulos, Petros Mitseas, Sofia Eleftheriou, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Antonia Petrogianni, Lefteris Kapelonis, Nikolaos Antoniou, Nassos Katsamanis and Shrikanth Narayanan “Emotion-Aware Speech Popularity Prediction: A Use-Case on Ted Talks” Nominated Best Paper Award

Oral Session 3b: Large Language Models 2 (Location: Kibble Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Jonathan Gratch

10.45-11.05 Bin Han, Cleo Yau, Su Lei and Jonathan Gratch “Knowledge-Based Emotion Recognition Using Large Language Models”
11.05-11.25 Yoon Kyung Lee, Jina Suh, Hongli Zhan, Junyi Jessy Li and Desmond C. Ong “Large Language Models Produce Responses Perceived to be Empathic”
11.25-11.45 Philipp Müller, Alexander Heimerl, Sayed M. Hossain, Lea Siegel, Jan Alexandersson, Patrick Gebhard, Elisabeth André and Tanja Schneeberger “Recognising Emotion Regulation Strategies from Human Behaviour with Large Language Models”
11.45-12.05 Georgios Chochlakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Kristina Lerman and Shrikanth Narayanan “The Strong Pull of Prior Knowledge in Large Language Models and its Impact on Emotion Recognition”
12.05-13.45 Lunch Break

Oral Session 4a: Face and Emotions (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Albert Ali Salah

13.45-14.05 Thorben Ortmann, Qi Wang and Larissa Putzar “EmojiHeroVR: A Study on Facial Expression Recognition under Partial Occlusion from Head-Mounted Displays” Nominated Best Paper Award
14.05-14.25 Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Mor Vered, Leimin Tian and Dana Kulic “”I think you need help! Here’s why”: Understanding the Effect of Explanations on Automatic Facial Expression Recognition”
14.25-14.45 Deniz Iren and Daniel Stanley Tan “Unilateral Facial Action Unit Detection: Revealing Nuanced Facial Nonverbal Cues”
14.45-15.05 Marina Tiuleneva, Emanuele Castano and Radoslaw Niewiadomski “How we Perceive the Intensity of Facial Expressions? Towards a General Computational Model of Intensity”  

Oral Session 4b: Physiology (Location: Kibble Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Gary McKeown

13.45-14.05 Imran Khan “Operationalising Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads Through Physiological and Biobehavioural Proxies of Oxytocin”
14.05-14.25 Imran Khan and Robert Lowe “Surprise! Using Physiological Stress for Allostatic Regulation Under the Active Inference Framework” Nominated Best Paper Award
14.25-14.45 Swarnali Banik, Sougata Sen, Snehanshu Saha and Surjya Ghosh “Improving Continuous Emotion Annotation in Video Platforms via Physiological Response Profiling”
14.45-15.05 Nicole Lai-Tan, Marios G. Philiastides and Fani Deligianni “Fusion of Spatial and Riemannian Features to enhance Detection of Gait Adaptation Mental States During Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation” Nominated Best Paper Award
15.25-15.45 Coffee Break
15.45-16.30 Late Breaking Results flash talks (Location: Grosvenor Suite)
16.30-16.45 Doctoral Consortium 1-minute talks (Location: Grosvenor Suite)
16.45-18.00 Doctoral Consortium and Late Breaking Results posters (Location: Grosvenor Suite for both)
19.00-01.00 Banquet and Award Ceremony

September 18, 2024

08.00-16.00 Registration (Location: Grosvenor Hotel foyer)
09.00-10.15 Keynote Speech: Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break

Oral Session 5a: Social Signal Processing (Location: Grosvenor Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Theodora Chaspari

10.45-11.05 Mirella Hladký, Rubia R. Guerra, X. Laura Cang, Karon E. MacLean, Patrick Gebhard and Tanja Schneeberger “Modeling the ‘Kiss my Ass’-Smile: Appearance and Functions of Smiles in Negative Social Situations”
11.05-11.25 Jingyu Xin, Brooks Gump, Stephen Maisto, Randall Jorgensen, Tej Bhatia, Vir Phoha and Asif Salekin “Decoding Hostility from Conversations through Speech and Text Integration”
11.25-11.45 Jonas Paletschek, David Johnson, Jan Bleimling and Hanna Drimalla “A Paradigm to Investigate Social Signals Of Understanding And Their Susceptibility To Stress”
11.45-12.05 Toshiki Onishi, Asahi Ogushi, Ryo Ishii, Atsushi Fukayama and Akihiro Miyata “Prediction of Praising Skills Based on Multimodal Information”
12.05-12.25 Tara Nourivandi, Saandeep Aathreya and Shaun Canavan “Multimodal Behavior Analysis and Impact of Culture on Affect”  

Oral Session 5b: Affective Computing (Location: Kibble Suite at Grosvenor Hotel)

Session chair – Anna Esposito

10.45-11.05 Sree Bhattacharyya, Shuhua Yang and James Z. Wang “A Heterogeneous Multimodal Graph Learning Framework for Recognizing User Emotions in Social Networks”
11.05-11.25 Shiran Dudy, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Ryoko Kitajima and Agata Lapedriza “Cross-Cultural Emotion Analysis: Assessing Linguistic Models’ Responses to Self-Success and Self-Failure Across Diverse Cultural Contexts” Nominated Best Paper Award
11.25-11.45 Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro, Hadi Banaee and Amy Loutfi “Towards Addressing Label Ambiguity in Sequential Emotional Responses Through Distribution Learning”
11.45-12.05 Mihail Miller, Stephan Klingner, Ann-Kristin Meyer and Richard Aude “Learning from, with and Without the Interdependencies of Valence-Arousal-Dominance and their Connection with Basic Emotions”
12.05-12.25 Matthew Barthet, Diogo Branco, Roberto Gallotta, Ahmed Khalifa and Georgios N. Yannakakis “Closing the Affective Loop via Experience-Driven Reinforcement Learning Designers”
12.25-13.45 Lunch Break
13.45-15.45 AAAC Town Hall Meeting
15.45-16.00 Closing Ceremony