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Full Program Schedule<\/h1>
Please note that the following schedule is tentative and subject to change.<\/strong><\/div>
The acceptance rate for the main track at ACII 2025 was 38.7%.<\/div>
Papers available at https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1dXp1nnjCWVtkrKUf3brDJWATsqZ7F0vW?usp=sharing<\/a> (Preprint prior to publication of proceedings on IEEExplore)<\/div>
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Day 1 – Wednesday – 8 October 2025 (National Ballroom 2)<\/strong><\/h3>
08:00-18:00<\/td>Registration<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
08:30-09:00<\/td>Opening Ceremony and Welcome to Country<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
09.00-10.00<\/td>

Keynote 1:<\/b> A Bidirectional Lens on Context and Emotional Expressions<\/em>, by Prof Ursula Hess\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

Session Chair<\/span>: Roland Goecke<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:00-10:30<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
10:30-12:30<\/td>

Session 1 – Datasets, Tools, and Emotion<\/strong><\/p>

Session Chair<\/u>: Jon Gratch<\/em><\/p>

  • Miao Cheng, Chia-Huei Tseng, Ken Fujiwara, Victor Schneider and Yoshifumi Kitamura,\u00a0<\/em>Asian Emotional Body Movement Database: Diverse Intercultural E-Motion Database of Asian Performers (DIEM-A)<\/span> (paper ID 36)<\/li>
  • Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro, Hadi Banaee and Amy Loutfi,\u00a0<\/em>Affective Priming Score: A Data-Driven Method to Detect Priming in Sequential Datasets<\/span> (paper ID 55)<\/li>
  • Sarra Graja, George Lovell, Kenneth Scott-Brown and Kenneth Fee,\u00a0<\/em>ANX: a multimodal affective dataset for anxiety related emotions over extended sessions<\/span> (paper ID 74)<\/li>
  • Soujanya Narayana, Ravikiran Parameshwara, Ibrahim Radwan, Akshay Asthana, Roland Goecke and Ramanathan Subramanian,\u00a0<\/em>Diversity benefits: Integrating Datasets for Improved Valence Estimation<\/span> (paper ID 99)<\/li>
  • Jingyao Wu, Matthew Barthet, David Melhart and Georgios Yannakakis,\u00a0<\/em>Emotions as Ambiguity-aware Ordinal Representations,\u00a0Emotions as Ambiguity-aware Ordinal Representation<\/span> (paper ID 52)<\/li>
  • Yupei Li, Qiyang Sun, Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy, Emran Alturki and Bj\u00f6rn W. Schuller,\u00a0<\/i>GatedxLSTM: A Multimodal Affective Computing Approach for Emotion Recognition in Conversations<\/span> (paper ID 8)<\/li>
  • Hiroto Sakimura, Takayuki Nagaya, Tomoki Nishi, Tetsuo Kurahashi, Katsunori Kohda and Nobuhiko Muramoto,\u00a0<\/i>Long-term variability in Physiological-Arousal Relationships for Robust Emotion Estimation<\/span> (paper ID 17)<\/li>
  • Mirella Hladk\u00fd, Bin Han, Jonathan Gratch, Patrick Gebhard and Tanja Schneeberger,\u00a0<\/i>Steal and Smile: Impact of Emotion Regulation and Social Values on Smiles in Social Conflicts<\/span> (paper ID 59)<\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
12:30-14:00<\/td>Lunch<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
14:00-15:30<\/td>Session 2 – Face and Physiology<\/b>
Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0Monica Perusquia-Hernandez<\/i>
  • Lennart Eing, Cristina Luna-Jim\u00e9nez, Silvan Mertes and Elisabeth Andr\u00e9, Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for Facial\u00a0<\/span>Expression Recognition <\/span>(paper ID 27)<\/span><\/li>
  • Daniel Stanley Tan and Deniz Iren, Generating Synthetic Images with Asymmetric Facial Expressions for Inclusive Facial Expression Recognition (paper ID 45)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Mana Mahmoudi, Oana Madalina Fron and Bernd Dudzik, Expert Involvement in Facial Emotion Recognition: A Systematic Review (paper ID 62)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Jialin Li, Munachiso Nwadike and Hanan Salam, Improving Personalisation in Valence and Arousal Prediction using Data Augmentation (paper ID 77)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Jiawei Wang, Temitayo Olugbade, Tom Davison and Nadia, Berthouze Detecting Car Passenger Comfort Levels through Physiological Sensing and Machine Learning (paper ID 44)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Saskia Davies, Tom Owen and Sean Walton, Qualitative exploration of physiological mannerisms of acrophobia during virtual reality heights exposure (paper ID 64)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
15:30-16:00<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
16:00-17:00<\/td>Keynote 2:<\/b> Recognise, Interpret, Simulate… Now What? Translating AI to Make Clinical Impact, by A\/Prof <\/span>Dom Dwyer<\/strong>
Session Chair<\/u>: Abhinav Dhall<\/i><\/td><\/tr>
17:00-18:00<\/td>

Demo Session<\/b><\/p>

Session Chair<\/span>: Ram Subramanian<\/p>

  • Pierrich Plusquellec, Sara Saint-Pierre Cote, Lesly Nzeusseu Kouamou, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Mass\u00e9, Vincent Denault, Nathe Fran\u00e7ois, Noel Rignon and Melanie Guerin, Emotion AI in the Wild: A Live Demo of EmoScienS for Real-World Emotional Health Monitoring (paper ID 125)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Su Zhang and Sara Gudeman: Mira – An Emotionally Aware Ikigai Coach (paper ID 126)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Elena Abaskulieva and Yakov Bondarenko Uncovering the Hidden Structure of Spontaneous Facial Behavior: The Role of Lateralized Action Unit with our technology (paper ID 127)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Ravi Varman Selvakumaran, Muntasir Adnan, Wenxin Zhang, Blooma John, Braden McGrath and Ramanathan Subramanian: A Virtual Reality Game for Cognitive-Motor Training with Biofeedback Analytics (paper ID 128)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Himanshi Lalwani and Hanan Salam: Enhancing Task Management and Focus in Higher Education Students with ADHD Using a Socially Assistive Robot (paper ID 129)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
18:00-20:00<\/td>Welcome Reception<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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Day 2 – Thursday – 9 October 2025 (National Ballroom 2)<\/strong><\/h3>
08:00-18:00<\/td>Registration<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
08:00-09:00<\/td>Breakfast<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
09:00-10:00<\/td>Keynote 3: <\/b>Modelling and Simulating Cyber-Physical-Social Behaviours with Multimodal Data, by <\/span>Pro<\/span><\/b>f<\/span> Flora Salim<\/strong>
Session Chair<\/u>: Roland Goecke<\/i><\/td><\/tr>
10:00-10:30<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
10:30-12:30<\/td>

Session 3 –\u00a0<\/strong>Speech and LLMs<\/b><\/p>

Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0<\/em>Roland Goecke<\/i><\/p>

  • Jaya Narain, Amrit Romana, Vikram Mitra, Colin Lea and Shirley Ren, Affect Models Have Weak Generalizability to Atypical Speech (paper ID 28)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Amrit Romana, Jaya Narain, Tien Dung Tran, Andrea Davis, Jason Fong, Ramya Rasipuram and Vikramjit Mitra, Switchboard-Affect: Emotion Perception Labels from Conversational Speech (paper ID 63)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Abinay Reddy Naini and Carlos Busso, Multi-Dimensional Ordinal Embedding for Attribute Modeling in Speech Emotion Recognition (paper ID 73)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Rui Amorim de Oliveira Pimenta, Tim Schlippe and Kristina Schaaff, Assessing Consciousness-Related Behaviors in Large Language Models Using the Maze Test (paper ID 14)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Samad Roohi, Richard Skarbez and Hien Nguyen, Uncertainty-Aware Affect Prediction in Conversation Using Conformal Prediction (paper ID 22)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Xiaojiang He, Yushan Pan, Nan Xiang, Yangbin Chen and Zhijie Xu, An Active Learning-based Global-Distribution Attention Model for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (paper ID 03)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Siyuan Zhang, Shun Chen, Zhuofan Wen, Hailiang Yao, Zheng Lian, Zhengqi Wen, Bin Liu and Jianhua Tao, LLM-Driven Multimodal Fusion: Enhancing Depression Detection through Textual Feature Augmentation (paper ID 80)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Hiromi Narimatsu, Xijia Wei, Keishi Nomura, Nadia Berthouze and Shiro Kumano, Emotion in Art-Elicited Texts, Interpreted by GPT-4o: Self vs. Third-Person Perspectives (paper ID 85)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
12:30-14:00<\/td>Lunch<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
14:00-14:45<\/td>

Ask me Anything <\/strong><\/p>

Panel: <\/strong>Prof Ursula Hess, Prof Flora Salim, Prof Yaser Sheikh, and A\/Prof Dom Dwyer<\/p>

Moderator:<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>Marwa Mahmoud<\/i><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

14:45-15:30<\/td>Session 4 – Medical<\/b>
Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0Marwa Mahmoud<\/i>
  • B Ashwini, Sanmay Sood, Pratyush Jain and Jainendra Shukla, Towards Context-Aware Multimodal AI for Assessment of Autism in Children (paper ID 60)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Sunday David Ubur, Denis Gracanin and Eugenia H Rho, Adaptive Captioning with Emotional Cues: Supporting DHH and Neurodiverse Learners in STEM (paper ID 71)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • David Kalina, Umar Khan, Sumair Aziz, Julio Romero, Hugo Posada-Quintero, Roland Goecke and Raul Fernandez-Rojas, Assessing Pain Relief in Virtual Reality: A Multimodal and Machine Learning Approach (paper ID 98)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
15:30-16:00<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
16:00-17:30<\/td>Session 5\u00a0– Mental Health<\/b>
Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0Gary McKeown<\/i>
  • Ruyi Wang, caseKG: A LLM-Based Knowledge Graph for Mental Schema Analysis (paper ID 21)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Louis Simon and Mohamed Chetouani, Learning Longitudinal Stress Dynamics from Irregular Self-Reports via Time Embeddings (paper ID 70)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Stan Meyberg, Gizem Sogancioglu and Heysem Kaya, Balancing Performance and Fairness: The Role of Text in Multimodal Depression Detection in Vlogs (paper ID 57)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Hinako Kizawa and Yoshiko Arimoto, Physiological analysis on the effect of laughter contagion on interlocutors\u2019 mental states (paper ID 05)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Kexin Feng and Theodora Chaspari, The Impact of Explainable AI on Human Decision-Making in Speech-Based Depression Assessment (paper ID 11)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
17:30-18:00<\/td>LBR Flash Talks (5min)<\/b>
Session Chair<\/u>: Hugo Posada-Quintero<\/i>
  • Boning Zhao and Xiao Sun, Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education (paper ID 111)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Amir Ansari, Jana Subirana, Bruna Silva, Sergio Escalera, David Gallardo-Pujol and Cristina Palmero, Enhancing Personality Recognition by Comparing the Predictive Power of Traits, Facets, and Nuances (paper ID 123)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Hiroyuki Sakakibara and Kazunori Terada, Context- and Personality-Aware Emotional Expression Design via Creator-Embodied Agents: A Pilot Study (paper ID 115)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Chenyu Zhang, Sharifa Alghowinem and Cynthia Breazeal, Ensembling Large-Language Models to Characterize Affective Dynamics in Student-AI Tutor Dialogues (paper ID 120)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Hong Jia, Shiya Fu, Feng Xia, Vassilis Kostakos and Ting Dang, Beyond Scale: Small Language Models are Comparable to GPT-4 in Mental Health Understanding (paper ID 113)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Pierrich Plusquellec, Sara Saint-Pierre-C\u00f4t\u00e9, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Mass\u00e9, Lesly Nzeusseu Kouamou, Pamela Lirio and Vincent Denault, Emotion AI in the Wild: Responsible Deployment of Affective Computing in Real-world Workplaces (paper ID 116)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
18:00-19:00<\/td>DC and LBR posters<\/b>
15 posters from previous LBR and DCSession Chair<\/span>: Carlos Busso<\/i>Raquel Yupanqui,<\/span> Multimodal AI in the Assessment and Communication of Health Risks in a Changing Environment\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

Lennart Eing,<\/span> Enhancing Machine Sign Language Understanding by the Use of Auxiliary Data<\/span><\/p>

\u0141ukasz Culer<\/span>, The Heart Wants What it Wants: How Can ECG Foundation Models Help Us Understand Emotions?<\/span><\/span><\/p>

Stan Meyberg,<\/span> Fair, Explainable, and Personalized Treatment Outcome Modelling in Mental Healthcare<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Jiawei Wang,<\/span> Affective Multimodal Modeling and Chatbot Design for Responsible Retail and Clothing Try-on<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Pritesh Contractor,<\/span> Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

19:00-23:00<\/td>Gala Dinner at the\u00a0<\/b>National Gallery of Australia<\/a>\u00a0(Gandel Hall)<\/b><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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Day 3 – Friday – 10 October 2025 (National Ballroom 2)<\/strong><\/h3>
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08:00-18:00<\/td>Registration<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
08:00-09:00<\/td>Breakfast<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
09:00-10:00<\/td>

Keynote 4: <\/b>Photorealistic Telepresence, by Prof Yaser Sheikh<\/strong><\/b><\/p>

Session Chair:<\/u>\u00a0Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/i><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:00-10:30<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
10:30-12:30<\/td>Session 6 – Gesture, Body, and Agents
<\/b>Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0<\/em>Nadia Berthouze<\/i>
  • Xin Wei, Huakun Liu, Felix Dollack and Monica, Perusquia-Hernandez, From the movement of my opponent: Temporal gesture recognition from electromyography in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game (paper ID 83)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Fettah Kiran, Md Tanim Hasan, Kaushik Ganeshan, Gayatri, Bhatambarekar, Abhijit Sarkar and Ioannis Pavlidis, Method of Extraction and Affective Role of Facial Self-Touch Gestures in Knowledge Work (paper ID 12)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Eleonora Ceccaldi and Gualtiero Volpe, CEST: Integrating Cognitive Science and Bayesian Change-Point Detection for Behavior Segmentation (paper ID 56)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Huakun Liu, Miao Cheng, Xin Wei, Felix Dollack, Victor Schneider, Hideaki Uchiyama, Chia-Huei Tseng, Yoshifumi Kitamura and Monica, Perusquia-Hernandez, Generative Learning as a Tool to Improve Perception of Emotional Body Motion Expressions (paper ID 91)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Masum Hasan, Cengiz Ozel, Nina Long, Alexander Martin, Sammy Potter, Tariq Adnan, Sangwu Lee and Ehsan Hoque, Hi5: Synthetic Data for Inclusive, Robust, Hand Pose Estimation (paper ID 46)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Ruoyu Wen, Xiaoli Wu, Kunal Gupta, Simon Hoermann, Mark Billinghurst, Alaeddin Nassani, Dwain Allan and Thammathip Piumsomboon, Investigating AI in Peer Support via Multi-Module System-Driven Embodied Conversational Agents (paper ID 10)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Sushrita Rakshit, James Hale, Kushal Chawla, Jeanne M. Brett and Jonathan Gratch, Emotionally-Aware Agents for Dispute Resolution (paper ID 81)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
12:30-14:00<\/td>Lunch<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
14:00-14:30<\/td>DC Flash Talks (3min)<\/b>
Session Chair<\/u>:\u00a0Gelareh Mohammadi<\/i>
  • Raquel Yupanqui, Multimodal AI in the Assessment and Communication of Health Risks in a Changing Environment (paper ID 106)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Lennart Eing, Enhancing Machine Sign Language Understanding by the Use of Auxiliary Data (paper ID 118)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • \u0141ukasz Culer, The Heart Wants What it Wants: How Can ECG Foundation Models Help Us Understand Emotions? (paper ID 112)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Stan Meyberg Fair, Explainable, and Personalized Treatment Outcome Modelling in Mental Healthcare (paper ID 109)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Jiawei Wang, Affective Multimodal Modeling and Chatbot Design for Responsible Retail and Clothing Try-on (paper ID 110)<\/span><\/span><\/li>
  • Pritesh Contractor, Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics (paper ID 121)<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr>
14:30-15:15<\/td>AAAC Town Hall<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
15:15<\/td>Closing Ceremony Main Conference<\/b><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

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Day 4 – Saturday – 11 October 2025 (Various)<\/strong><\/h3>
08:00-18:00<\/td>Registration<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
08:00-09:00<\/td>Breakfast<\/b> (Foyer)<\/td><\/tr>
09:00-14:00<\/td>Doctoral Consortium (Link)<\/a><\/b> in Boardroom 1<\/td><\/tr>
10:00-10:30<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
12:30-14:00<\/td>Lunch<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
15:30-16:00<\/td>Coffee Break<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
09:00-18:00<\/td>Workshops (Link<\/a>) & Tutorials (Link<\/a>)<\/b>
Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Computing (MMAC)<\/strong> (Link<\/a>) in High Courtyard North
The First \u201cX-ITE PAIN\u201d Challenge 2025<\/strong> (Link<\/a>) in Boardroom 3+4
Tutorial 1 (Morning): Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Emotion Recognition Systems<\/strong> (Link<\/a>) in High Courtyard South
Tutorial 2 (Afternoon): Introduction to Multimodal Behaviour Analysis for Interactive AI<\/strong> (Link<\/a>) in High Courtyard South<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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