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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">** Call for papers **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Special session in ACII 2017 (Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Topic: Brain and physiological signals for multi-user modeling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.affective-sciences.org/en/bps-mum">http://www.affective-sciences.<wbr>org/en/bps-mum</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">** Description **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Emotional cues, generated subconsciously by the human body, have always been a crucial part of affective computing. Machines can learn about a person's affective state by analyzing measurements such as autonomic nervous
system responses, neurophysiological measurements and gaze behavior. They can then act on the inferred information, adapting their own behavior, response or service based on the user's affective state.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Although emotions can be viewed as a social phenomenon, current physiological computing research is focused on emotions which are triggered by non-social stimuli. In the case of group interactions, emotions do not only
develop in one’s mind but rather unfold according to the emotional expressions of the others. Consequently, the behavior, expressions and physiology of interacting people are known to be in synchrony during interactions. This inter-dependency of behavior and
emotional expressions can in turn predict several properties of the social interaction such as grounding, mutual understanding, conflict, or social presence. Similarly, researchers in social neuro-science perform hyper-scanning to measure joint brain activities
of people interacting with each other. The objective being to uncover brain areas and neural mechanisms supporting social processes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With this special session we would like to develop research on multi-user modeling from neural and physiological sources. Here the concept of user modeling is defined broadly, including emotional, cognitive and social
aspects which can be used for intelligent interactions. This special session targets researchers from computer science, neuro-science and psycho-physiology who are interested in the following research questions:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>What information about the user state and the quality of the interaction between users can be gained from (neuro-)physiological signals?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>How can that information, combined from several users, be used to interact adaptively with a machine?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>What is the effect of sharing physiological information with others?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Which methods can be developed to reduce inter-user variability and improve user modeling?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The special session topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Collaborative brain-computer interfaces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Tangible / social display of physiological and neural cues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Social bio-feedback</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Assessment of social processes (conflict, empathy, relationship etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Assessment of the quality of interaction and collaboration</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Social neuroscience and psycho-physiology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Emotion assessment, particularly social emotions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Domain and transfer learning for building cross-participant models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-<span> </span>Methods for multiple user modeling (e.g. synchrony measures, dynamic multi-user models, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-496473523077559620___DdeLink__77_2037697395"></a><span lang="EN-US">-<span>
</span>Applications of multi-user physiological computing</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To facilitate the research on physiological signal classification, several databases are publicly available. Contributions on the physiological data available in such databases are welcome but not obliged. Example databases
include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">EATMINT: <a target="_blank" href="https://eatmint.unige.ch">
https://eatmint.unige.ch</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">RECOLA: <a target="_blank" href="https://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/recola">
https://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/<wbr>recola</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>MMDB: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cbi.gatech.edu/mmdb/">
http://www.cbi.gatech.edu/<wbr>mmdb/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Those databases are only examples and work on self-collected or other data are welcome.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">** Important dates **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Conference Dates: October 23-26, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reviews Provided to Authors: June 16, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Author Rebuttals Due: June 23, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification of Acceptance: July 14, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Camera Ready Papers Due: August 18, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Full paper authors should register By: August 7, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Early registration deadline: September 1, 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">** Submission procedure **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Papers<span> </span>submitted to this Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular ACII papers (ACII paper submission). When submitting your paper please check the corresponding
box for the Special Session on "Brain and physiological signals for multi-user modeling" in the ACII submission system.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers as the remaining ACII submissions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">** Organizers **</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Guillaume Chanel, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">guillaume.chanel[at]<a target="_blank" href="http://unige.ch">unige.ch</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a target="_blank" href="http://cvml.unige.ch/guillaumechanel">http://cvml.unige.ch/<wbr>guillaumechanel</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Christian Mühl, German Aerospace Center, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">cmuehl[at]<a target="_blank" href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmuhl">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>cmuhl</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jérémy Frey, Ullo, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">jfrey[at]<a target="_blank" href="http://ullo.fr">ullo.fr</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a target="_blank" href="http://phd.jfrey.info">http://phd.jfrey.info</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">anijholt[at]<a target="_blank" href="http://cs.utwente.nl">cs.utwente.nl</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a target="_blank" href="http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/%7Eanijholt/">http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~<wbr>anijholt/</a></span></p>
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