Scope:

Researchers from several disciplines have been trying to understand and re-create emotion in the user interface. Emotional models have been proposed as a critical component of more effective human computer interaction, suggesting that emotions should not be considered a simple optional providing pleasantness, but crucial cues as they are involved in management of H-M joint-action. In this perspective, emotion and the ability to ”measure” the user emotional response are now considered as an important key to implement intelligent interfaces, aimed at producing believable and satisfying interactions.

Aim of this Invited Session is to bring together expertise from different disciplines on the following main topics:

•  Multimodal interfaces: signals collection and processing
•  Theorical models of emotion
•  Adding Emotion to Artificial Systems

Organizer:

Rita Ciceri, PhD (www.psicomlab.it)
Laboratory of Communication Psychology
Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milano.

Authors information.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in AI series. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal.

Authors must prepare original manuscripts which should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer-Verlag format. Author guidelines may be obtained at Springer website . Please submit a paper using the conference page at http://kes2007is.prosemanager.com/submitpaper.asp . Paper submitted for special sessions will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria as regular contributed papers.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 1 March 2007
Notification of Acceptance: 1 April 2007
Camera ready copies: 1 May 2007