AISB Convention 2004: Symposium on Affective Computing

Revised abstract submission deadline: 30th January

Tradional computer science has taken little regard of emotion and mood: interfaces do not often take into account the mood of the user; emotion has been little studied as a source of inspiration for computation problem-solving, despite its vital role in human problem-solving; and characters in computer games and virtual environments are rarely engaging to the user.

The aim of this symposium is to address these issues, considering:

• The development of computer systems which take account of the mood or emotions of their user: e.g. in computer-aided learning systems or systems which help users to use application programs.
• Computer systems which simulate emotionally-rich characters, e.g. in games or in interfaces to computers which use simulated characters to engage with the user.
• Systems which take inspiration from emotion for computational problem-solving, e.g. studying how people use emotion in the solution of complex problems, and drawing inspiration for novel problem-solving algorithms from this.
• Related philosophical issues.

The symposium will take place as part of the 2004 AISB Convention in Leeds, England, which is taking place from the 29th March--1st April. This particular symposium is likely to be towards the end of the convention (31st March--1st April). Further general details of the whole convention can be found here.

Papers addressing the issues above are invited. Please email two page abstracts to aisb@kent.ac.uk by the 30th January 2004. Papers should be in postscript, pdf or Microsoft Word format. Decisions will be made around the beginning of February.