Proceedings of the 2014 workshop on Emotion Representation and Modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction-Systems

Abstract

Over the past years, the role of emotions occurring during interaction gained in attention. This is especially of interest while developing user adaptable Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI). Emotions, being widely accepted as essential to Human-Human-Interaction, became increasingly interesting for system designers of affective interfaces in order to provide natural, user-centered interaction. However, to adequately incorporate emotions in modern HCI-Systems, results from varying research disciplines must be combined. The representation of emotions is a crucial issue in this context. Depending on the modalities used and the aim of the model incorporated, varying difficulties in such a representation may arise. For this, the Emotion Representation and Modelling in Human-Computer-Interaction-Systems (ERM4HCI) workshop concentrates on emotion representations, the characteristics used to describe and identify emotions, and their relation to personality and user state models (like age, gender, physical/cognitive load, etc.). Furthermore, we encourage the discussion on possible interdependencies of characteristics on an intra- and intermodality level. Those interdependencies may occur if two characteristics are influenced by the same physiological change in the observed user, but other factors (technical, constructive, etc.) can also cause interdependencies. The workshop will provide a platform to debate such aspects. The ERM4HCI workshop aims at identifying a minimal set of characteristics to represent and recognize emotions in multi-modal affective HCI. For this, the workshop addresses some of the typical issues arising in multi-modal data processing for affective systems, such as timing aspects, confidence metrics, discretization and issues related to the translation between emotion models. ERM4HCI encourages the discussion of both technical and theoretical approaches to emotion modelling and representations in order to aid in the development of efficient, verifiable and implementable emotion models for affective systems. Moreover, it provides researchers from diverging disciplines with a forum to discuss the integration of the various approaches on emotion detection and representation in the context of HCI-Systems. The workshop accepted 6 papers discussing various topics of emotion representation and modelling. All papers are selected for oral presentations. We have presented work covering aspects of emotiondetection, modelling, and emotion-awareness with the use of different modalities in the context of HCI-systems. Finally, a panel discussion completes the workshop's schedule. We hope that this workshop will be an inspiring venue for researchers in the field of emotion representation and modelling. We are looking forward to seeing you at the ERM4HCI 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey!