Call for Papers

This workshop will accept submissions and presentations including but not limited to the themes listed below:

• Affective and emotion-aware human-robot interaction

• Contextual factors in human-robot interaction and collaboration in-the-wild

• Graph Neural Networks for human behaviour understanding

• Graph representation learning for human behaviour understanding

• Theory of mind and imitation learning in empathic robots

• Social robotics and assistive robotics

• Multimodal emotion recognition in-the-wild

• Microexpression recognition and generation

• Robust affect and personality recognition

• Verbal/nonverbal emotional behaviour generation for robots and intelligent agents

• Human-robot trust and transparency in interaction

• Affective and social intelligence in healthcare and elderly care robot

• Artificial emotions in robots and intelligent agents

• Personalised and adaptive robots in longitudinal interaction

• Ethical considerations of affective systems and robotic applications

Our workshop will accept two types of submission:

• full papers (6 pages + up to 2 pages of references), which will be presented as oral presentations at the workshop

• short papers (up to 4 pages including references), which will be presented as posters at the workshop

Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner, and each submission will receive 2 to 3 reviews. 

Please follow ACII 2023's guidelines when preparing your submissions.

Accepted papers will be published and indexed on IEEExplore in a separate proceeding (volume) that includes the doctoral consortium, demos and workshops of ACII 2023. We are also in contact with Frontier in AI and Robots regarding publishing extended version of submissions accepted to our workshop as a special issue. 

Please submit your paper via EasyChair (ACII 2023 EasyChair portal: "Workshop: Affective Human-Robot Interaction" track).

Please see ACII 2023's guidelines

• Submission deadline: 28 Apr extended to 12 May 2023

• Notification of acceptance: 9 Jun 2023

• Camera-ready deadline: 1 Aug 2023

• Workshop date: 10 Sep 2023