Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Affective interaction in natural environments

摘要

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments -- AFFINE 2010. AFFINE follows a number of successful workshops and events commencing in 2008. A key aim of AFFINE is the identification and investigation of significant open issues in real-time, affect-aware applications 'in the wild' and especially in embodied interaction, for example, with robots or virtual agents. AFFINE seeks to bring together researchers working on the real-time interpretation of user behaviour with those who are concerned with social robot and virtual agent interaction frameworks. The call for papers attracted several submissions from Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada and the United States. The program committee accepted 17 papers that cover a variety of topics, including multimodal human affect recognition, multimedia expression generation in robots and virtual agents, human-computer and human-robot interaction. In addition, the program includes a keynote talk by Prof. Antonio Camurri on the automated analysis of non-verbal expressive gesture and expressive social interaction in groups of users, for applications in novel multimodal interfaces and emerging user-centric media.