- From: Viviana Patti <patti@di.unito.it>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:10:56 +0200
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** *[Apologies for cross-posting] * * ----------------1st CALL FOR PAPERS------------------------------------ ESSEM@ACII 2017 3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017): User Engagement and Interaction http://di.unito.it/essem17 Co-located with the seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2017 (http://acii2017.org/), San Antonio, TexasOctober 23, 2017 ***Submission deadline: June 15, 2017*** Keynote speaker: Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta -------------------------------------------------------------------- The role of emotional intelligence is increasing at fast speed in everyday computer-mediated interactions, thanks to the integration of more or less explicit affective elements in social networks, apps, virtual assistants, etc. Expressed through emojis, color, tags or speech, affect has become part of our relationships with computers, adding depth and involvement to them. The technical advancement of the available expressive means, from 3D to language technologies, is one of the key factors of this process. ESSEM 2017 addresses the expression of emotions in many-to-many interaction and in one-to-one interaction as a tool for promoting, analysing and measuring user engagement. In particular, we are interested in tools and models that rely on NLP, acoustic and video analysis; theories and methods that bridge the expression of emotions from language to media are especially needed to overcome the limitations of language-specific and media-specific approaches. ESSEM 2017 focuses on interaction as a testbed for the models and tools developed for social and expressive media. The ultimate goal is to devise socio-emotional strategies to foster user engagement. We encourage contributions on applications that specifically address the role of sentiment and emotions in the interactions that occur through social and expressive media, with a special focus on cultural heritage, artistic expression, education and entertainment (e.g., storytelling, artistic curation, audience development, games and edutainment). ESSEM aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both from academia and industry. It wants to take an active part in growing a new field in terms of multidisciplinary research and to investigate open issues by cross-validating different approaches in emotion research. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Affect-related phenomena in social media - Affect-related phenomena in expressive media - Affect-related phenomena in the user's engagement process - Subjectivity, sentiments and emotions in social & expressive media - Affect and figurative language, stance or deception in social & expressive media - Design of engaging agents - Socio-emotional strategies for user engagement - User engagement in human-human and human-agent interactions using NLP & audio-video analysis - Grounding affect in conversational context - Affect and regulation of human-agent interaction - Affect and emotions in embodiment - Affect in interactive entertainment (drama, storytelling, games, etc.) and art (artistic curation, audience development, etc.) - Applications of affective computing in multimodal interaction - Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in social & expressive media *Important dates* - June 15, 2017: Paper submission deadline - July 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance - August 18, 2017: Final manuscripts due (hard deadline for all workshops) - Workshop date: October 23, 2017) *Paper submission* Standard research papers should be a maximum of 6 pages long. We also encourage submission of short research papers (including opinion statements) of maximum 3 pages long. Submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACII 2017 formatting guidelines: http://acii2017.org/submission All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACII2017/, (track ESSEM). Workshop Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. *Organizers* Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chloé Clavel, LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain *Programme Committee* Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre Zoraida Callejas, University of Granada, Spain Lea Canales, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain Paula Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Guillaume Dubuisson-Duplessis, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University, France Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Nicole Novielli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Magalie Ochs, LSIS, University of Aix Marseille, France Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Rémi Ronfard, INRIA, France Saif Mohammad, National Research Council, Canada Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany, Imperial College London, UK Candace Sidner, WPI, US Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen, Italy Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA *Follow us!* Twitter: https://twitter.com/Essem2017 Spread the news: #essem2017 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Essem2017 Flyer: http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem17/CFP_ESSEM-flyer2017.pdf <http://www.di.unito.it/%7Epatti/essem17/CFP_ESSEM-flyer2017.pdf> If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission procedure, please just contact us via email: essem4acii2017@gmail.com <mailto:essem4acii2017@gmail.com> *
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