Connectionists: 2025 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025): Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

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 in-person event in Canberra, Australia, 8-11 October 2025. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the paper’s authors.

ACII 2025 will be held just before the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025, 13-17 Oct 2025) at the same venue, thus, enabling the attendees to combine two excellent conferences in one trip.

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 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 

The theme for ACII 2025 is Socially Responsible Affective Computing. 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.

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.

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.

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!

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modeling and Animation
Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behaviour
Summarisation of Affective Behaviour
Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools
Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools
Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools
Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools
Studies of affect in context using computational tools
Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems
Computational Models of Affective Processes
Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 
Affective Interfaces
Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being
Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces
 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents
Artificial Agents for Supporting Mental and Physical Well-Being
Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
Embodied Emotion
Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents
Affect and Group Emotions
Analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions
Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation
Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)
Open Resources for Affective Computing
Shared Datasets for Affective Computing
Benchmarks for Affective Computing
Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing 

Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing   

Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing
Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing
Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing
Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling
Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing
Applications
Health and well-being
Education
Entertainment
Consumer Products
User Experience
Important Dates

The time zone for the deadlines below is Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

Main Track
Main track full paper submission deadline: 9 April 2025 (Extended)
Rebuttal period: 31 May – 4 June 2025
Paper notification for the main track: 19 June 2025
Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 19 July 2025
Main conference: 8 – 10 Oct 2025
Workshops and tutorials, and DC: 11 Oct 2025




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Dongmei Jiang
Professor, School of Computer Science, 
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi'an China.
Email: jiangdm at nwpu.edu.cn
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