2025 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025)-Canberra, Australia, 8-11 Oct 2025

Aerial view of Canberra, Australia

Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to submit your original research for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held as an in-person event in Canberra, Australia, 8-11 October 2025. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the paper’s authors.

ACII 2025 will be held just before the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025, 13-17 Oct 2025) at the same venue, thus, enabling the attendees to combine two excellent conferences in one trip.

The ACII conference series 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. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore (subject to approval by the IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2025 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 

The theme for ACII 2025 is Socially Responsible Affective Computing. Affective computing, with its ability to recognise and respond to human emotions, holds great potential for enhancing user experiences and fostering more natural interactions between humans and machines. It also has promising applications in fields such as mental health, where this technology can assist psychologists and other clinicians in making more accurate diagnoses by detecting mental states. However, this powerful technology also raises significant ethical concerns that must be addressed to ensure its responsible and transparent use.

One of the primary challenges is the potential misuse or exploitation of sensitive emotional data, including for manipulative or discriminatory purposes. Ensuring robust data privacy, clear ethical guidelines, and regulations around the use of emotional data is crucial. Additionally, the lack of transparency of many affective computing algorithms, systems build on limited data, and the potential for biases in emotion inference systems pose risks of perpetuating harmful stereotypes or inaccurate assessments based on factors such as gender, race, or cultural background. Transparency, accountability, and mitigating biases in these systems are essential to build trust with users.

Recognising these concerns, regulatory efforts such as the EU AI Act aim to establish legal frameworks and stringent requirements for high-risk AI applications, including those related to emotional state detection, ultimately safeguarding individual rights and upholding ethical principles in the development and deployment of affective computing technologies. A stronger focus needs to be placed on these matters by the affective computing research community.

The ACII 2025 (8-11 Oct 2025) and ICMI 2025 (13-17 Oct 2025) conferences will be held in back-to-back mode at the same venue in Canberra, Australia – one trip, two great conferences!

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

  • Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
  • Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
  • Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modeling and Animation
  • Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
  • Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
  • Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
  • Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
  • Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
  • Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
  • Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behaviour
  • Summarisation of Affective Behaviour

Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools

  • Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools
  • Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools
  • Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools
  • Studies of affect in context using computational tools

Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

  • Computational Models of Affective Processes
  • Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
  • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 

Affective Interfaces

  • Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
  • Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
  • Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
  • Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
  • Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
  • Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
  • Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

  • Artificial Agents for Supporting Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
  • Embodied Emotion
  • Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

Affect and Group Emotions

  • 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)

Open Resources for Affective Computing

  • Shared Datasets for Affective Computing
  • Benchmarks for Affective Computing
  • Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing 

Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing   

  • Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing
  • Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing
  • Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing
  • Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling
  • Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing

Applications

  • Health and well-being
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Consumer Products
  • User Experience

Important Dates

The time zone for the deadlines below is Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

Main Track

  • Main track full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2025
  • Rebuttal period: 31 May – 4 June 2025
  • Paper notification for the main track: 19 June 2025
  • Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 19 July 2025
  • Main conference: 8 – 10 Oct 2025
  • Workshops and tutorials, and DC: 11 Oct 2025