<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e503a54-7fff-d60d-44f2-a30cda2a53c2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=======================================================</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">28 Sep - 1 Oct 2021, Nara, Japan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.acii-conf.net/2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.acii-conf.net/2021/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">=======================================================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are calling for papers to be presented at ACII 2021, the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional to the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII2021 will be invited to submit extended versions to IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing. These will be published in a “Best of ACII” special section of this premier journal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Important dates**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Date: September 28 – October 1, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Submission Deadline: April 9, 2021  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reviews Provided to Authors: May 25, 2021 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author Rebuttals Due: June 1, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera Ready Papers Due: July 30, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**General conference topics**</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Ethical Issues in Affective Computing</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fairness and bias</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Privacy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Transparency and explainability</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inclusive Design</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creating models for user diversity (ability, language, culture, gender, age)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Social impact of affective computing systems</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Computational Models of Emotional Processes</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:V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n</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Group Dynamics</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multiparty interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal interaction</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Affective Databases and Annotation Tools</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*Applications</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:20pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Health</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style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