<div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.)</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Call for Papers **</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Affective Agents Workshop (AAW) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Workshop homepage: </span><a href="http://gaips.inesc-id.pt:8081/iva14-waa/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://gaips.inesc-id.pt:8081/iva14-waa/</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">To be held in conjunction with IVA 2014 in Boston, MA, USA, 27-29 August 2014</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Conference homepage: </span><a href="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/iva2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.ccs.neu.edu/iva2014/</span></a></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Scope **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Many researchers in the virtual agents and social robotics communities are exploring the integration of affective computing into their systems. However, the majority of this research focuses on only one aspect of affective computing, such as the detection, modeling, or expression of emotion. The goal of this workshop is to create collaborations between the experts in each of these areas to share their latest findings so as to shape the picture of how all of these systems can be integrated together to create an Affective Agent that senses, models, expresses and responds to a user's affective state in real time.</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Agents and robots that respond to a user’s affective state</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Real time sensing of affect</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Expressing emotions in embodied agents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal affective detection and expression</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evaluation of affective systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Computational models of emotion, empathy and emotional contagion</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Perception-action affective loops in agents and robots</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Affective interactions in real-world environments</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications for affective interactive games, robots and virtual agents</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Techniques for handling multimodal and noisy data in real world scenarios</span></p>
</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Important Dates **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">June 6, 2014:    Paper submission deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">June 27, 2014:  Notification of paper acceptance</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">July 11, 2014:   Camera ready versions due</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">August 26, 2014:  Workshop date (half-day)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">August 27-29, 2014:  Main conference</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Submission instructions **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Authors are asked to submit papers in Springer format, with a limit of 8 pages. MS Word and LaTeX templates can be found in the Workshop Website. </span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Workshop Organizers **</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Lazlo Ring, Northeastern University</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">João Dias, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Iolanda Leite, Yale University</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** Program Committee ** </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Joost Broekens, TU Delft, NL</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, NL</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Sidney D'Mello, University of Notre Dame, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Kate Hone, Brunel University, UK</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Ian Horswill, Northwestern University, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Eva Hudlicka, University of Massachusetts, USA </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Arvid Kappas, Jacobs University, Germany</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Margot Lhommet, Northeastern University, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Stacy Marsella, Northeastern University, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Catherine Pelachaud, Paristech Telecom, FR</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Laurel Riek, University of Notre Dame, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Stefan Scherer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies. USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Daniel Schulman, Veterans Health Administration, USA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Adriana Tapus, ENSTA-ParisTech, France</span></p>
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