Best of affective computing and intelligent interaction 2013 in multimodal interactions

Abstract

The fifth biannual Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013) was held in Geneva, Switzerland. This conference featured the recent advancement in affective computing and relevant applications in education, entertainment and health. A number of selected paperswere invited to submit an extended article to this special issue. The selectionwas done based on their highly favorable reviews at ACII 2013 and involvement of multimodality in their methods and applications. The review process of this special issue was performed in one cycle after which we either accepted or rejected the submissions based on the responses provided to the reviewers’ comments. This special issue features seven articles on multimodal applications or studies in affective computing. In the reminder of this editorial,we summarize the articles and their key findings in this special issue.