CfP Workshop on Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCI '09)

[Christian Muehl]

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Call for Papers

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Workshop on Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces

(held in conjunction with ACII’09)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 09.09.2009

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Overview:

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This workshop will explore the advantages and limitations of using
neurophysiological signals as a modality for the automatic recognition
of affective and cognitive states, as well as the possibilities to use
this information about the user state in innovative and adaptive
applications.

Theme of the workshop:

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Recent research efforts in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) show that
brain activity can be used as an active/voluntary, or
passive/involuntary control modality in man-machine interaction. While
active BCI paradigms received a lot of attention in recent years,
research on passive approaches to BCI is still lacking concerted
activity.

However, it has been shown more than once that brain activations can
carry information about the affective and cognitive state of a
subject, and that the interaction between humans and machines can be
aided by the recognition of those user states.

To achieve robust passive BCIs, efforts from applied and basic
sciences have to be combined. On the one hand, applied fields such as
affective computing aim at the development of applications that adapt
to changes in the user states and thereby enrich the interaction,
leading to a more natural and effective usability. On the other hand,
basic research in neuroscience advances our understanding of the
neural processes associated with emotions. Furthermore, similar
advancements are being made for more cognitive mental states, for
example attention, fatigue, and work load, which strongly interact
with affective states.

We encourage submissions exploring one or more of the following topics:

* emotion elicitation and data collection for affective BCI

* detection of affective and cognitive states with BCI and other modalities

* adaptive interfaces and affective BCI

Goal of the workshop:

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The goal of the workshop is to bring researchers from the communities
of brain computer interfacing, affective computing, neuroergonomics,
affective and cognitive neuroscience together to present
state-of-the-art progress and visions on the various intersections
between those disciplines.

Paper submissions:

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Papers should be 8 - 15 pages long and in the format of the CTIT
Series Proceedings. They should have a clear relationship to
brain-computer interfacing and to one or more of the other topics
listed above.

Technical papers, as well as survey papers and empirical papers are
eligible. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings (CTIT Series, ISSN Number available). Please submit your
papers in PDF format to ABCI at ewi.utwente.nl .

Important Dates:

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Paper Submission: 15.06.2009

Acceptance Note: 15.07.2009

Camera-ready versions: 15.08.2009

Further information can be found on the workshop website.

Workshop Website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/abci2009

Email: ABCI at ewi.utwente.nl

Programme Chairs:

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* Brendan Allison, Technical University Graz, Austria

* Stephen Dunne, StarLabs Barcelona, Spain

* Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

* Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Local Organizer:

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* Christian Muehl, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Programme Committee:

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* Egon van den Broek, University of Twente, The Netherlands

* Anne-Marie Brouwer, TNO Soesterberg, The Netherlands

* Peter Desain, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

* Stephen Fairclough, John Moores University Liverpool, United Kingdom

* Didier Grandjean, University of Geneva, Switzerland

* Markus Junghöfer, University Münster, Germany

* Jonghwa Kim, University Augsburg, Germany

* Gary Garcia Molina, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands

* Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

* Gert Pfurtscheller, Technical University Graz, Austria

* Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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