Day 2

Time	Activity	Place
7:30-8:30	Registration and coffee	Lobby
8:30-9:30	Opening remarks and program overview: ACII & IVA General Chairs Conformación de Presidium	La Luz Room
9:00 – 10:30	Keynote 1: Batja Mesquita Title: MINE and OURS emotions Session Chair: Ali Etemad	La Luz Room
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break	Terrace
11:00 – 12:40	Oral Session 1: Health & Wellbeing Session Chair: Theodora Chaspari	La Luz Room
	Video-based Social Interaction Behavior Analysis with the Simulated Interaction Task for Children (Kids-SIT) Authors: Rituja Pardhi, Matthias Norden, William Saakyan, Nadine Vietmeier, Simone Kirst, Isabel Dziobek, Julia Asbrand and Hanna Drimalla	La Luz Room
	ConceptMamba: Interpretable Temporal Model for Mental Health Applications Authors: Xinyu Li and Marwa Mahmoud	La Luz Room
	Augmenting Interviewer Judgements of Patient Experience with Automatic Language Analysis Authors: Aowen Shi, Michal Balazia, Danilo Postin, René Hurlemann, Jan Alexandersson, Francois Bremond and Philipp Müller	La Luz Room
	A Comprehensive Multimodal Framework for Autism Detection via Behavior Recognition in Triadic Interaction Settings Authors: Antara Roy Choudhury, Jeba Berlin, Arita Noelle Prasad, Sowmya Murli, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Vijaya Raman and Shyam Rajagopalan	La Luz Room
	Towards a Unified Modality-Agnostic Multimodal Framework for Cognitive Workload Assessment Authors: Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Calvin Joseph, Giorgos Giannakakis and Raul Fernandez Rojas	La Luz Room
	Predicting Team Functioning in Long Term Space Missions using Acoustic and Linguistic Measures Authors: Shrivatsa Mishra, Caroline Wendt, Sydney Begerowski, Suzanne Bell and Theodora Chaspari	La Luz Room
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch	Terrace
14:30 – 16:10	Oral Session 2: AI Agents & Human-AI Interaction Session Chair: Raiyan Abdul Baten	La Luz Room
	Illusions of Intimacy: How Emotional Dynamics Shape Human-AI Relationships Authors: Minh Duc Chu, Patrick Gerard, Kshitij Pawar, Charles Bickham and Kristina Lerman	La Luz Room
	Factors in Building Trust in Conversational Agents’ Dialogue Strategy: User’s Affective Attribution and Information Science Knowledge Authors: Towa Nakama, Tomoki Miyamoto and Akira Utsumi	La Luz Room
	Drawing the Line: Where AI Guidance and Human Creativity Meet in Emotion-Driven Comic Storyboarding Authors: Jocelyn Shen, Isabella Pu, Alessandro Briseño, Hyun Kim, Fiona Lu, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park	La Luz Room
	Preference Learning from Emotional Expressions through Local Query Training Authors: Motoaki Sato, Jonathan Gratch and Kazunori Terada	La Luz Room
	A Segment-Level Adult Lifespan Valence–Arousal Dataset for Naturalistic Narrative Comprehension Authors: Xuan Yang, Deepa Tilwani, Anyssa Murphy, Anna Rassolov, Christian O’Reilly and Svetlana Shinkareva	La Luz Room
16:30 – 19:00	DEMOS and Posters (& Coffee)
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee
16:30 – 19:00	Demos Session Chair: Nadia Berthouze	Terrace
16:30 – 19:00	Poster Session: All Main track, LBR, and DC papers Session Chair: Virginia De Sa	La Luz Room

Day 3

Time	Activity	Place
8:30-9:00	Coffee and networking	Lobby
9:00 – 10:30	Keynote 2: Antonia Hamilton Title: Mechanisms of human interactive behaviour and their application to virtual interaction Session Chair: Jon Gratch	La Luz Room
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break	Terrace
11:00 – 12:40	Oral Session 3: Physiological Modelling Session Chair: Stanisław Saganowski	La Luz Room
	Hierarchical Modeling of Continuous Arousal in EEG Reveals Age and Sex Modulation in Naturalistic Listening Authors: Deepa Tilwani, Xuan Yang, Svetlana Shinkareva and Christian O’Reilly	La Luz Room
	Take it Personally: The Limits of General SSL Representations for Real-Life PPG Emotion Detection Authors: Dominika Kunc, Przemysław Kazienko and Stanisław Saganowski	La Luz Room
	When the Body Knows but the Mind Does Not: Few-Shot Personalization for Affective Thermal Blindness Authors: Tahera Hossain and Guillaume Lopez	La Luz Room
	Hearing the Invisible: Affective Bodily Awareness through EMG Sonification and Situated Sound with Joakinator Authors: Joaquín R. Díaz Durán, Laia Turmo Vidal, Elena Márquez Segura, Amar D’Adamo, José Manuel Vega-Cebrián and Ana Tajadura-Jiménez	La Luz Room
	EEG-to-Sentiment Decoding: Investigating Direct, Indirect Text-mediated, and Multimodal Approaches Authors: Ahnaf Samin, Javad Hashemi and Ali Etemad	La Luz Room
	Valence and Arousal Transitions: Shared EEG Signatures and Theta-Selective Divergence Authors: Huan Su, Eunhee Chang, Woan-Shuian Chien, Miao Cheng and Yoshifumi Kitamura	La Luz Room
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch	Terrace
14:30 – 16:10	Oral Session 4: Culture Session Chair: Jesse Hoey	La Luz Room
	Dimensional Speech Emotion Recognition for Japanese Speech: A Raw-Waveform Transformer Multi-Task Approach Authors: Jandrik Lana, Von Ralph Dane Herbuela and Yukie Nagai	La Luz Room
	Acoustic Features in Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech: An Explainable and Double Machine Learning Analysis Authors: Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Dominik Puchala, Zhao Ren, Aleksandra Swiderska, Dennis Küster and Tanja Schultz	La Luz Room
	Emotions Behind the Wheel: The Role of Cultural Group, Environmental Familiarity, and Personality in Affective Driving Experience Authors: Tahera Hossain, Tahia Tazin, Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad and Takuro Yonezawa	La Luz Room
	Spook the Machine: Gamified Exploration of Human Imagination of Machine Fear Authors: 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	La Luz Room
	ComfyFashionTryOn: A Multimodal Dataset for Try-On Clothing Comfort Detection in Women Authors: 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	La Luz Room
16:00 – 17:00	Late-breaking research lightning talks (& Coffee)
16:00 – 17:00	Coffee	Terrace
16:10 17:20	Late-breaking research (LBR) lightning talks Session chair: Valentina Franzoni	La Luz Room
17:30 – 19:00	Bus Tour	Meeting point to be confirmed
20:00 – 0:00	ACII Gala Dinner & Paper Awards	Casa Real Hotel

Day 4

Time	Activity	Place
8:30-9:00	Coffee and networking	Lobby
8:30-9:30	ACII & IVA General Chairs Conformación de Presidium	La Luz Room
9:00 – 10:30	Keynote 3: Monica Tentori Title: From Interaction to Perception: Sensing and Shaping the Invisible Session Chair: Enrique Sucar	La Luz Room
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break	Terrace
11:00 – 12:40	Oral Session 5: Facial expressions Session Chair: Stefanos Gkikas	La Luz Room
	Facial distal electromyography synergy analysis uncovers the relevance of the Duchenne marker in spontaneous smile production Authors: Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Felix Dollack, Chun Kwang Tan, Shushi Namba, Saho Ayabe-Kanamura and Kenji Suzuki	La Luz Room
	“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” Authors: Leticia Pinto-Alva and Gale Lucas	La Luz Room
	Secrets of a Smile: Can Internal Experiences be Derived from External Expressions? Authors: Mirella Hladký, Jozef Hladký, Tanja Schneeberger, Patrick Gebhard, Tomohiro Nagashima and Philipp Müller	La Luz Room
	One-Frame Calibration with Siamese Network in Facial Action Unit Recognition Authors: Shuangquan Feng and Virginia de Sa	La Luz Room
	Mimicry Matters: Multimodal Mimicry-Aware Engagement Estimation Authors: Jingjing Guo and Marwa Mahmoud	La Luz Room
	ReFace: Reorganizing Facial Spatiotemporal Representations for Improved Pain Assessment Authors: Stefanos Gkikas, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz, Muhammad Umar Khan and Raul Fernandez Rojas	La Luz Room
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch	Terrace
14:30 – 16:10	Oral Session 6: Multimodal & LMM Systems Session Chair: Marwa Mahmoud	La Luz Room
	AffexTrace2D: A Modality-Preserving System for Facial, Vocal, and Semantic Affect in Dyadic Interaction Authors: Von Ralph Dane Herbuela, Haifeng Zhang and Yukie Nagai	La Luz Room
	Automated Measurement of Interpersonal Responsiveness using Language and Multimodal Foundation Models Authors: Onn Alis Sever, Nadav Talmon, Ido Cohen, Gurit E. Birnbaum and Doron Friedman	La Luz Room
	TRACER: End-to-End Context-Aware Emotion Recognition with Transformers Authors: Sitao Zhang, Yimu Pan and James Z Wang	La Luz Room
	AI Mediators Regulate Emotion and Create Value in Disputes Authors: James Hale and Jonathan Gratch	La Luz Room
	Questions of Character: Personality-Consistent Fictional Character Identification in LLMs Authors: Maria Tsfasman and Ben Wigler	La Luz Room
16:00 – 17:00	Conference closing (& coffee)	Terrace
16:00 – 17:00	Coffee
16:30 – 19:00	Conference closing: ACII & IVA General chairs	Terrace
17:00 – 19:00	AAAC/IVA Meeting & Town Hall Session Chair: Gary McKeown	La Luz Room