AMAR aims to investigate ethical, applied affect recognition, this workshop will invite conversations on topics which leverage multimodal data that includes, but is not limited to, 2D, 3D, thermal, brain, physiological, and mobile sensor signals. This workshop aims to expose current use cases for affective computing and emerging applications of affective computing to spark future work.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All papers will be single-blind peer reviewed. Submission can be up to 6 pages plus unlimited pages for references (IEEE format). Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and will be available in the IEEExplore.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, ethical applications of the following:

• Health applications with a focus on multimodal affect
• Multimodal affective computing for cybersecurity applications (e.g., biometrics and IoT security)
• Inter-correlations and fusion of ubiquitous multimodal data as it relates to applied emotion recognition (e.g. face and EEG data)
• Leveraging ubiquitous devices to create reliable multimodal applications for emotion recognition
• Applications of in-the-wild data vs. lab controlled
• Facilitation and collection of multimodal data (e.g. ubiquitous data) for applied emotion recognition
• Engineering applications of multimodal affect (e.g., robotics, social engineering, domain inspired hardware / sensing technologies, etc.)

Specifically, ethical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Privacy and security
• Institutionalized bias
• Trustworthy applications of affective computing
• Equal access to ethical applications of affective computing (e.g. medical applications inaccessible due to wealth inequality)

Committees

Program Committee

• Md Taufeeq Uddin (University of South Florida)
• David Crandall (Indiana University)
• Vishal Patel (John Hopkins)
• Sayde King (University of South Florida)
• Kalaivani Sundararajan (Netherlands eScience Center)
• Khadija Zanna (IBM)
• Mohamed Ebraheem (University of South Florida)
• Ashokkumar Patel (Florida Polytechnic University)
• Nima Karimian (San Jose State University)
• Tara Nouravandi (University of South Florida)
• Venkata Sri Chakra Kumar (Cornell University)
• Rupal Agarwal (University of South Florida)
• Huiyuan Yang (Rice University)

Organizing committee

• Shaun Canavan (University of South Florida)
• Tempestt Neal (University of South Florida)
• Marvin Andujar (University of South Florida)
• Saurabh Hinduja (University of Pittsburgh)
• Lijun Yin (Binghamton University)

Invited Speakers

• Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Shaun Canavan at scanavan@usf.edu