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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to submit your original research for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held as an <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">in-person event</span> in Canberra, Australia, 8-11 October 2025. <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">Accepted papers must be presented by one of the paper’s authors.</span></span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">ACII 2025 will be held just before the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (<a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:#2E92FF;text-decoration-line:underline;background-color:transparent;transition:color 0.3s;box-shadow:none;">ICMI 2025</a>, 13-17 Oct 2025) at the same venue, thus, enabling the attendees to combine two excellent conferences in one trip.</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">The ACII conference series is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognise, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore (subject to approval by the IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2025 will be invited to submit extended versions to the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;">IEEE</em> </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;">Transactions on Affective Computing</i><span style="box-sizing:border-box;">. </span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">The theme for ACII 2025 is <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">Socially Responsible Affective Computing</span>. Affective computing, with its ability to recognise and respond to human emotions, holds great potential for enhancing user experiences and fostering more natural interactions between humans and machines. It also has promising applications in fields such as mental health, where this technology can assist psychologists and other clinicians in making more accurate diagnoses by detecting mental states. However, this powerful technology also raises significant ethical concerns that must be addressed to ensure its responsible and transparent use.</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">One of the primary challenges is the potential misuse or exploitation of sensitive emotional data, including for manipulative or discriminatory purposes. Ensuring robust data privacy, clear ethical guidelines, and regulations around the use of emotional data is crucial. Additionally, the lack of transparency of many affective computing algorithms, systems build on limited data, and the potential for biases in emotion inference systems pose risks of perpetuating harmful stereotypes or inaccurate assessments based on factors such as gender, race, or cultural background. Transparency, accountability, and mitigating biases in these systems are essential to build trust with users.</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">Recognising these concerns, regulatory efforts such as the EU AI Act aim to establish legal frameworks and stringent requirements for high-risk AI applications, including those related to emotional state detection, ultimately safeguarding individual rights and upholding ethical principles in the development and deployment of affective computing technologies. A stronger focus needs to be placed on these matters by the affective computing research community.</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;">The ACII 2025 (8-11 Oct 2025) and ICMI 2025 (13-17 Oct 2025) conferences will be held in back-to-back mode at the same venue in Canberra, Australia – one trip, two great conferences!</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Open Resources for Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Shared Datasets for Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Benchmarks for Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing </span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;"> </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;"> </span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Applications</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Health and well-being</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Education</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Entertainment</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">Consumer Products</span>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space-collapse:preserve;">User Experience</span>
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Important Dates
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<i style="box-sizing:border-box;">The time zone for the deadlines below is Anywhere on Earth (AOE).</i>
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Main Track
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Main track full paper submission deadline: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:#FF0000;"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">9 April 2025 (Extended)</span></span>
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Rebuttal period: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">31 May – 4 June 2025</span>
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Paper notification for the main track: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">19 June 2025</span>
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Camera-ready paper submission deadline: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">19 July 2025</span>
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Main conference: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">8 – 10 Oct 2025</span>
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Workshops and tutorials, and DC: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;">11 Oct 2025</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Dongmei Jiang</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Professor, School of Computer Science, </span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Northwestern Polytechnical University</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Xi'an China.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Email: jiangdm@nwpu.edu.cn</span><br>
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