ERM4CT @ ACM ICMI 2016

International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Technologies

In order to study natural, user-centred interactions, to develop user-centred emotion representations and to model adequate affective system behaviour, appropriate multi-modal data comprising not just audio and video material must be available. Following its ancestor, the ERM4HCI workshop series, the ERM4CT workshop focuses on emotion representations, signal characteristics used to describe and identify emotions as well as their influence on personality and user state models to be incorporated in companion systems. The ERM4CT 2016 workshop allows the in-depth analysis of technical prerequisites, modelling aspects and applications linked to the development of affective, multi-modal, user-adapted HCI systems.

Researchers are encouraged to discuss possible interdependencies of characteristics on an intra- and intermodality level. Such interdependencies may occur if two characteristics are influenced by the same physiological change in the observed user and are especially relevant to multi-modal affective systems. Theoretical papers contributing to the understanding of emotions in order to aid in the technical modelling of emotions for companion systems are welcomed. The workshop supports discussions on the necessary prerequisites for consistent emotion representations in multi-modal companion systems.

The ERM4CT 2016 workshop is the second joint-workshop aiming at highlighting the specific issues associated with the multi-modal emotion representations needed for companion technologies. As a further highlight, this year’s workshop offers a “hands-on” session, where a dataset comprised of 10 different modalities will be made available prior to the workshop to the participants. The participants are encouraged to analyse the dataset in terms of emotion recognition, interaction studies, conversational analyses, etc. The dataset provided is a snapshot of a new multi-modal dataset (Tornow, et al., 2016). Researchers are invited to address a specific research question using this dataset and submit their results to the workshop. During the workshop, all results will be presented and discussed in a subsequent panel session.

Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages). All submissions should be anonymous and according to the specifications of the ICMI 2016 (http://icmi.acm.org/2016/index.php?id=authors). The reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous.