AffectRE '18: First International Workshop on Affective Computing for Requirements Engineering Banff, Canada, August 20-21, 2018 |
Conference website | http://mast.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/affectre |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=affectre18 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 5, 2018 |
Submission deadline | June 12, 2018 |
AffectRE'18 is the First International Workshop on Affective Computing for Requirements Engineering. It will be held in Banff, Canada, in co-location with the 26th Edition of the Requirement Engineering Conference (RE'18).
In the recent years, a trend has emerged to study the role of affective states in software development, including personality traits, attitudes, moods, opinions, sentiments, and emotions. Affective computing, i.e., the study and development of software systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and exploit human affect, has been considered a promising approach. Several requirements engineering tasks include acceptance and negotiation activities in which affect emotions plays a crucial role. For example, from requirements elicitation to negotiation, from modeling to prioritization, different emotions arise and evolve for stakeholders with different personality traits—including the final users.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers (6-8 pages)
- Short position papers (3-4 pages) describe a new idea or work in progress
- Posters, data showcase and demo papers (1-2 pages) summarize a research project, tool, technique or datasets.
All papers must be in English and must conform, at time of submission, to the ACM formatting instructions. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format. Submissions should be made through EasyChair.
List of Topics
- Automatic recognition and impact assessment of affective states, emotions, moods, attitudes, personality traits on group collaboration in requirements engineering, including cross-cultural stakeholder teams,
- Automatic recognition and impact assessment of affective states, emotions, moods, attitudes, personality traits on group collaboration in requirements engineering, including cross-cultural stakeholder teams
- The role of affect in the social requirements platform ecosystems, both from a stakeholder and end-user perspective,
- Techniques to recognize and leverage stakeholders’ affective feedback to improve requirements engineering processes and tools (e.g., capture and analyze the sentiment of end-users community, aspect-based sentiment analysis of product reviews),
- Defining or adapting psychological model of affect to requirements engineering (e.g., understanding the trigger behind positive and negative emotions during the requirement engineering process, modeling coarse vs. fine grained emotion),
- Multimodal recognition of affect of spontaneous communicative behavior such as natural language processing, analysis of body posture and gesture, speech analysis, conversational analysis during stakeholders meetings, use of biometric measurements,
- Affect sensing from communication artifacts (e.g., message boards, issue tracking, social media) and techniques for extracting and summarizing emotions from such channels,
- Software frameworks, APIs, and reusable tools.
Committees
Program Committee
- Bram Adams Politecnique de Montréal
- Michał Wróbel Gdansk University of Technology
- Bonita Sharif Youngstown State University
- Norbert Seyff FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- Filippo Lanubile University of Bari
- Fabian Fagerholm University of Helsinki
- Daniel Graziotin University of Stuttgart
- Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology
- Maleknaz Nayebi University of Toronto
- Foutse Khomh Polytechnique de Montréal
- David Redmiles University of California, Irvine
- Robert Feldt Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Daniela Damian University of Victoria
- Eduard Groen IESE, Fraunhofer
- Giuseppe Destefanis University of Hertfordshire
- Prasun Dewan The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Kurt Schneider Leibniz University Hannover
- Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University
- Marco Ortu University of Cagliari
- Chris Parnin North Carolina State University
- Raian Ali Bournemouth University
- Walid Maalej University of Hamburgy
- Daniel Méndez Fernández Technical University of Munich
- Kelly Blincoe The University of Auckland
- Julio Cesar Leite Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Fabio Calefato University of Bari
- Ayushi Rastogi University of California, Irvine
- Mika Mäntylä University of Oulu
- Minhaz Zibran University of Saskatchewan
Organizing committee
- Davide Fucci University of Hamburg (Germany)
- Nicole Novielli University of Bari (Italy)
- Emitzá Guzmán University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Davide Fucci <fucci@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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