[AISWorld] 2nd CFP: EMPIRE workshop @ UMAP 2014: Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services

[Marko Tkalcic]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

EMPIRE 2014 - 2nd workshop on "Emotions and Personality in
Personalized Services" http://empire2014.wordpress.com

in conjunction with UMAP 2014 (July 7-11, 2014 Aalborg, Denmark)
http://www.um.org/umap2014/

*SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 1, 2014*
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Personality and emotions shape our daily lives by having a strong 
influence on our preferences, decisions and behaviour in general. Hence, 
personalized systems that want to adapt to end users need to be aware of 
the user’s personality and/or emotions to perform well. Affective 
factors may include long-term personality traits or shorter-term states 
ranging from ‘affect dispositions’, ‘attitudes’ (liking, loving, 
hating,…), ‘interpersonal stances’ (distant, cold, warm,…), ‘moods’ 
(cheerful, irritable, depressed,…) or ‘real emotions’. Recently, there 
have been extensive studies on the role of personality on user 
preferences, gaming styles and learning styles. Furthermore, some 
studies showed that it is possible to extract personality information 
about a user without annoying questionnaires, by analyzing the publicly 
available user’s social media feeds. Also, the affective computing 
community has developed sophisticated techniques that allow for accurate 
and unobtrusive emotion detection. Generally, emotions can be used in 
personalized systems in two ways: (i) either to change the emotion (or 
mood, e.g. from a negative to a positive) or (ii) to sustain the current 
emotion (e.g. keep a user “charged” while doing sports). Recent studies 
showed that such information can be used in various personalized systems 
like emotion-aware recommender systems.


TOPICS
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- Adaptation strategies using affect and/or personality (e.g. to 
different learning styles, openness to diverse content etc.)
- Scenarios/domains where emotions and personality could be utilized 
effectively
- Privacy issues
- Evaluation measures/strategies
- Emotions as context
- Emotions in the decision-making process for recommender systems
- Role of personality on user similarities
- Emotion detection in recommended content consumption
- Emotion detection as non-invasive feedback
- Affective tagging of multimedia content and services
- Emotion-based evaluation metrics (satisfaction...)
- Lifestyle recommender systems
- Personality and mood for group decision making
- Incorporating personality and emotions in user models
- Datasets for affective modeling (collecting, available)
- Personality traits acquisition (explicit and implicit)
- Personality and interfaces/control/bubble-control
- Could interfaces/control/bubble-control be personalized based on 
personality traits
- Personality and users’ tasks/goals
- Social signal processing for personalized services
- Strategies for modeling emotions and personality
- Detecting triggers and causes of emotion
- Theories about the relationship between reasoning and affect, between 
decision-making and affect
- Methods for evaluating the utility of adaptation to affective factors
- Personality-based preference elicitation


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We accept two kinds of submissions: (i) full papers (up to 12 pages) and 
(ii) short papers (up to 6 pages). Submissions should be made through 
the EasyChair conference system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empire2014

and must adhere to the Springer LNCS format 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). All the 
submissions will be peer-reviewed. The accepted papers will be published 
in a CEUR-WS volume.


SPIN-OFF PUBLICATION
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Authors may wish to consider submitting thoroughly extended versions of 
their manuscripts to the UMUAI Special Issue on Personality in 
Personalized Services ( http://www.umuai.org/news_on_journal.html ).

Further information can be found on the workshop's web page 
http://empire2014.wordpress.com


IMPORTANT DATES
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April, 1, 2014        Paper submission deadline
May, 1, 2014        Notification of acceptance
To Be Announced        Workshop day


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Marko Tkalčič, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria / University of 
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Ante Odić, Outfit7 (Slovenian subsidiary Ekipa2 d.o.o.), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Andrej Košir, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Aleksander Valjamae, Linköping University, Sweden
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Glasgow University, UK
Floriana Grasso, Liverpool University, UK
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, Universita di Bari, Italy
Ioannis Arapakis, Yahoo! BCN, Spain
Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Li Chen, Hong Kong Batist University
Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy
Man Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, China
Maria Nunes, University of Sergipe, Brazil
Matt Dennis, University of Aberdeen, UK
Mehdi Elahi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Mohammad Soleymani, Imperial College, UK
Neal Lathia, Cambridge University, UK
Olga Santos, UNED, Spain
Oliver Brdizcka, PARC, USA
Pasquale Lops, Universita di Bari, Italy
Pearl Pu, EPFL, Switzerland
Rong Hu, EPFL, Switzerland
Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moore University, UK
Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
Yi-Hsuan (Eric) Yang, Academia Sinica, Taipei

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