The ACII 2025 organising committee is delighted to bring the ACII conference series to Australia for the first time. ACII 2025 will be an in-person event held at the Hotel Realm conference venue in Canberra, Australia.

The ACII conference series – organized by the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC, formerly known as Humaine) – is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognise,  interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena.

The theme for ACII 2025 is Socially Responsible Affective Computing.

The main conference days will be on 8-10 Oct 2025, while workshops and tutorials will be held on Saturday, 11 Oct 2025. This ‘reverse’ conference schedule for ACII 2025 will allow for maximum flexibility for attendees who also want to attend the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025, 13-17 Oct 2025) at the same venue, thus, enabling to combine two excellent conferences in one trip. While the organising committees of ACII 2025 and ICMI 2025 are separate, the teams work closely together and investigate registration options that will allow for different combinations of attending the two conferences for those who cannot attend both conferences in full. Further details will be provided in due time. (Sunday, 12 Oct 2025 will be a rest and recovery day for those attending both conferences.)