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- Sunday, September 15, 2024
- Monday, September 16, 2024
- Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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 |