Poster Presentations

Posters – Main track, LBR, and DC papers

Posters
Poster Title Authors
Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Personalized Digital Health Interventions Manuela González-González, Soufiane Belharbi, Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Masoumeh Sharafi, Muhammad Haseeb Aslam, Lorenzo Sia, Nicolas Richet, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Simon L Bacon and Eric Granger
Drawing the Line: Where AI Guidance and Human Creativity Meet in Emotion-Driven Comic Storyboarding Jocelyn Shen, Isabella Pu, Alessandro Briseño, Hyun Kim, Fiona Lu, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park
Comparative and Non-Comparative Auxiliary Signals for Text VAD Regression: A Controlled Study on EmoBank Junseok Yang and Ja-Hee Kim
Illusions of Intimacy: How Emotional Dynamics Shape Human-AI Relationships Minh Duc Chu, Patrick Gerard, Kshitij Pawar, Charles Bickham and Kristina Lerman
TRUEFER: Teacher-Guided Robust Uncertainty Estimation for Facial Expression Recognition Tomislav Kurtović and Marko Subašić
Toward individual-level calibration in affect recognition with perceptual adjustment queries Xuanzhou Chen, Sankaraleengam Alagapan and Ashwin Pananjady
ConceptMamba: Interpretable Temporal Model for Mental Health Applications Xinyu Li and Marwa Mahmoud
A Segment-Level Adult Lifespan Valence–Arousal Dataset for Naturalistic Narrative Comprehension Xuan Yang, Deepa Tilwani, Anyssa Murphy, Anna Rassolov, Christian O’Reilly and Svetlana Shinkareva
Factors in Building Trust in Conversational Agents’ Dialogue Strategy: User’s Affective Attribution and Information Science Knowledge Towa Nakama, Tomoki Miyamoto and Akira Utsumi
Hierarchical Modeling of Continuous Arousal in EEG Reveals Age and Sex Modulation in Naturalistic Listening Deepa Tilwani, Xuan Yang, Svetlana Shinkareva and Christian O’Reilly
Valence and Arousal Transitions: Shared EEG Signatures and Theta-Selective Divergence Huan Su, Eunhee Chang, Woan-Shuian Chien, Miao Cheng and Yoshifumi Kitamura
Questions of Character: Personality-Consistent Fictional Character Identification in LLMs Maria Tsfasman and Ben Wigler
Preference Learning from Emotional Expressions through Local Query Training Motoaki Sato, Jonathan Gratch and Kazunori Terada
Towards a Unified Modality-Agnostic Multimodal Framework for Cognitive Workload Assessment Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Calvin Joseph, Giorgos Giannakakis and Raul Fernandez Rojas
ReFace: Reorganizing Facial Spatiotemporal Representations for Improved Pain Assessment Stefanos Gkikas, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz, Muhammad Umar Khan and Raul Fernandez Rojas
Take it Personally: The Limits of General SSL Representations for Real-Life PPG Emotion Detection Dominika Kunc, Przemysław Kazienko and Stanisław Saganowski
Grounding Insight: An Artificial Affect Signal for Human-Centric Explainability of RL Agents Bernhard Hilpert, Kim Baraka and Joost Broekens
When the Body Knows but the Mind Does Not: Few-Shot Personalization for Affective Thermal Blindness Tahera Hossain and Guillaume Lopez
Automated Measurement of Interpersonal Responsiveness using Language and Multimodal Foundation Models Onn Alis Sever, Nadav Talmon, Ido Cohen, Gurit E. Birnbaum and Doron Friedman
ComfyFashionTryOn: A Multimodal Dataset for Try-On Clothing Comfort Detection in Women Yuke Zhang, Ziyue Lai, Jiawei Wang, Chuang Yu, Jennifer Chang, Temitayo Olugbade, Minna Nygren, Bruna Petreca, Youngjun Cho, Sharon Baurley, Xijia Wei, Mark Colley and Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
Context-Induced Shifts in Predicted Affective Word Meaning: A Comparison Across Psycholinguistically-Grounded Inference Architectures Florian Schlechte and Matthias Hirth
A Computational Implementation of a Goal-Directed Theory of Affect Bernhard Hilpert, Tamás Szűcs, Joost Broekens and Agnes Moors
One-Frame Calibration with Siamese Network in Facial Action Unit Recognition Shuangquan Feng and Virginia de Sa
Facial-Expression-Aware Prompting for Empathetic LLM Tutoring Shuangquan Feng, Laura Fleig, Ruisen Tu, Philip Chi, Edmund Bu, Melinda Ozel, Junhua Ma, Teng Fei and Virginia de Sa
TRACER: End-to-End Context-Aware Emotion Recognition with Transformers Sitao Zhang, Yimu Pan and James Z Wang
Predicting Team Functioning in Long Term Space Missions using Acoustic and Linguistic Measures Shrivatsa Mishra, Caroline Wendt, Sydney Begerowski, Suzanne Bell and Theodora Chaspari
AI-Augmented Counselor Training for Reflective Listening in Resource-Limited Settings: A Field Study in Honduras Longju Bai, John Piette, Do June Min, Darlin Mancia, Bowen Yi, Rafael Mejía Perdomo, Ernesto Gálvez-Pineda, Rada Mihalcea and Veronica Perez-Rosas
Mimicry Matters: Multimodal Mimicry-Aware Engagement Estimation Jingjing Guo and Marwa Mahmoud
Data Donation in Affective Framing Zeya Chen and Zach Pino
Is it written all over their face? Only if you know the story — facial action units predict emotion regulation only when social context is known Leticia Pinto-Alva and Gale Lucas
Acoustic Features in Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech: An Explainable and Double Machine Learning Analysis Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Dominik Puchala, Zhao Ren, Aleksandra Swiderska, Dennis Küster and Tanja Schultz
Emotions Behind the Wheel: The Role of Cultural Group, Environmental Familiarity, and Personality in Affective Driving Experience Tahera Hossain, Tahia Tazin, Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad and Takuro Yonezawa
Two Birds with One Stone: From Social Posts to BigFive via Personality-aware Multi-trait Inference Bao-Duc Vu, Ngoc Anh Le, Huu Duc Anh Nguyen, Kiem-Hieu Nguyen, Minh-Tien Nguyen and Hajime Hotta
Video-based Social Interaction Behavior Analysis with the Simulated Interaction Task for Children (Kids-SIT) Rituja Pardhi, Matthias Norden, William Saakyan, Nadine Vietmeier, Simone Kirst, Isabel Dziobek, Julia Asbrand and Hanna Drimalla
A Comprehensive Multimodal Framework for Autism Detection via Behavior Recognition in Triadic Interaction Settings Antara Roy Choudhury, Jeba Barlin, Arita Noelle Prasad, Sowmya Murli, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Vijaya Raman and Shyam Rajagopalan
Visual Affect Analysis: Predicting Emotions of Image Viewers with Vision-Language Models Filip Nowicki, Hubert Marciniak, Jakub Łączkowski, Bartosz Wilczek, Krzysztof Jassem, Tomasz Górecki, Vimala Balakrishnan, Desmond Ong and Maciej Behnke
Spook the Machine: Gamified Exploration of Human Imagination of Machine Fear Levin Brinkmann, Hiromu Yakura, Sonia Nicoletti, Mar Canet Sola, Thomas F. Eisenmann, Ali Dasmeh, Omar Sherif, Bramantyo Ibrahim Supriyatno, Prateek Gupta, Ignacio Serna, Rodrigo Bermudez Schettino and Iyad Rahwan
Modality–Time Masking for Robust Multimodal Confusion Detection Michael Peechatt, Reynold Bailey and Cecilia Alm
EEG-to-Sentiment Decoding: Investigating Direct, Indirect Text-mediated, and Multimodal Approaches Ahnaf Samin, Javad Hashemi and Ali Etemad
Augmenting Interviewer Judgements of Patient Experience with Automatic Language Analysis Aowen Shi, Michal Balazia, Danilo Postin, René Hurlemann, Jan Alexandersson, Francois Bremond and Philipp Müller
Fear of Falling in Parkinson’s: Automatic Detection and Quantifying Movement Characteristics during Turn Actions Yidan Xu, Simon F Farmer, Luc Berthouze and Temitayo Olugbade
Explainable graph attention network for stress recognition (StressGAT) via differential action units Thomas Kassiotis, Stefanos Gkikas, Nikolaos Smyrnis and Giorgos Giannakakis
Affective and Functional Needs in AI Use: User Patterns and Their Relation to Real-Life Support and Well-Being Jessy Wang-Sun, Estelle Yiyuan Sun, Hualin Zhang and Zihan Xu
Where do LLMs Fall Short in CBT-Guided Affective Reasoning? Vaishnavi Sinha, Pooja Guttal, Pranay Deep Reddy Katike, Vishal Sinha, Gerald Ndawula, Lira Yoon, Andrea Kleinsmith and Manas Gaur
AI Mediators Regulate Emotion and Create Value in Disputes James Hale and Jonathan Gratch
Secrets of a Smile: Can Internal Experiences be Derived from External Expressions? Mirella Hladký, Jozef Hladký, Tanja Schneeberger, Patrick Gebhard, Tomohiro Nagashima and Philipp Müller
Hearing the Invisible: Expanding Affective Proprioception through EMG Sonification and Situated Sound with [BLANK] Joaquín R. Díaz Durán, Laia Turmo Vidal, Elena Márquez Segura, Amar D’Adamo, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez
AffexTrace2D: A Modality-Preserving System for Facial, Vocal, and Semantic Affect in Dyadic Interaction Von Ralph Dane Herbuela, Haifeng Zhang and Yukie Nagai
Dimensional Speech Emotion Recognition for Japanese Speech: A Raw-Waveform Transformer Multi-Task Approach Jandrik Lana, Von Ralph Dane Herbuela and Yukie Nagai
Spatiotemporal Facial Muscle Synergy Analysis Reveals Duchenne Marker Alignment in Spontaneous Smiles Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Felix Dollack, Chun Kwang Tan, Shushi Namba, Saho Ayabe-Kanamura and Kenji Suzuki
Late Breaking Results
Poster Title Authors
Would You Dine With Me Again? Reducing Negative Emotions While Eating with an Artificial Companion Gabriele De Lucia, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Gireg Desmeulles, Danilo Avola, Maurizio Mancini and Radoslaw Niewiadomski
Individual Traits Moderate Associations Between Emotional Deviations and Mental Arithmetic Working Memory in Daily Life Lian Cao, Eriko Sugisaki, Akihiro Miyamoto, Motoyuki Sanada, Kae Nakajima, Nao Kobayashi and Yasushi Naruse
MindCare: A Hybrid Multi-Agent Architecture for Stress-Aware Conversational Support Linrui Tan, Shouyu Wang, Junen Xiao, Yifan Zhou and Akane Sano
Benchmarking Landmark-to-AU Rules: Published, Expert-Designed, and Machine-Discovered Approaches Jens Gebele, Martin Krippl, Philipp Brune, Frank Schwab and Sebastian von Mammen
An Empirical Study for Effective LLM-Based Human-State Prediction from Physiological Data Lifei Wang, Ao Guo and Jianhua Ma
Toward Reference-Guided Temporal-Scale Innovation Modeling for Cross-Subject EEG Emotion Recognition Qiling Dong
Toward Appraisal-Based Facial Expression Datasets Using Game-Based Interactions Irem Arici and Radoslaw Niewiadomski
Individual-level calibration in affect recognition with perceptual adjustment queries Xuanzhou Chen, Sankaraleengam Alagapan and Ashwin Pananjady
The Ordinal Annotation Game: How Construct Abstraction Shapes Crowdsourced Consensus Kosmas Pinitas
Toward a Neuroadaptive Storyteller: Does Designed Narrative Suspense Drive Audience Physiology? Lucija Mihić Zidar, Philipp Wicke, Marius Klug and Thorsten O. Zander
An Exploratory Study of Burnout Detection from Autobiographical Speech Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Juan Elías Vera Díaz, Alejandro Antonio Torres García, Humberto Pérez Espinosa, Juan Alberto Ramírez Quintana and Anabel Camacho Ávila
Perceptual Validation of a Tension-Driven Adaptive Music System Yann Frachi, Takuya Takahashi, Guillaume Chanel and Mathieu Barthet
Doctoral Consortium
Poster Title Authors
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Personalizing Affective Stimuli with Generative AI Filip Nowicki
Towards Affect-Aware Conversational Agents: Eliciting, Recognizing, and Leveraging User Affect Across Languages and Cultures Jonas Jostschulte
Audio Emotion Recognition for Atypical Hearing Ulysse Roussel
Towards Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder through Culturally Grounded, Multimodal Behavior Detection Antara Roy Choudhury
A Design Framework for Calibrated Emotional Anthropomorphism in Conversational AI David Leucas
Expectation vs Observation: Detecting Emotion Regulation Through a Predictive Processing Perspective Irem Arici
Designing Affect-Aware Conversational Technologies that Support Reflective Clothing Decision-Making Ziyue Lai
Hate Speech Beyond Text: Acoustic and Physiological Cues for Perception and Automatic Detection Rathi Adarshi Rammohan
A Computational Model of Value Change Induced by Others’ Emotional Signals Motoaki Sato