ACII 2025: 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Hotel Realm Canberra, Australia, October 9-12, 2025

Conference website	http://acii-conf.net
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acii2025

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!

Submission Guidelines

For Main Track, Special Track, and Workshop Papers

For a list of all topics relevant to ACII 2025, please see the Call for Papers page.

Original submissions to ACII 2025 should not substantially overlap with any other paper already submitted or published, or to be submitted during the ACII 2025 review period. All persons who have made any substantial contribution to the work should be listed as authors, and all listed authors should have made some substantial contribution to the work. All authors must be aware of the paper being submitted to ACII 2025.

The ACII 2025 conference proceedings will be published on IEEExplore. If a paper is accepted, an author must register and attend the conference to present the paper in person. The conference and IEEE reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including via the IEEE Xplore^® Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by one of the authors at the conference. However, special consideration will be given to authors who can provide documentary evidence that despite their best and timely efforts, a visa was not granted in time by the Australian authorities.

The reviewing process for ACII 2025 will be double-blind. Thus, the submitted version of the paper should be appropriately anonymised to not reveal either the authors’ identities or institutions. Any submission that contains information revealing the authors’ identity will be removed from the reviewing process. Please see the guidelines below for more information about how to anonymise your submission.

The submission process will be handled through the EasyChair system. The main body of the paper, from beginning to the conclusion(s), can be up to 7 pages in length. The Ethical Impact Statement can take up to one page (additional to the 7-page limit of the main content). The references do not have a page limit. Submissions must be in PDF format, in final and publishable form, by the submission deadline. Papers that use different formatting from the ACII 2025 Latex or Word templates or explicitly reveal identifying information about the authors will be automatically removed from the reviewing process (desk reject).

Supplementary material (images, video, etc.) may optionally be submitted with papers. Such material must be submitted as a single zip file and must be no larger than 100MB. Please ensure anonymity, including the file names/properties or other hidden text. The supplementary materials will not be part of the conference proceedings, so they will only aid the reviewing process. Reviewers are not required to view the supplementary material (though most reviewers are likely to do so), so any information critical to understanding the work should be in the main paper.

ACII 2025 will use the IEEE PDF eXpress to enforce the requirements for papers appearing in IEEE Xplore. The final versions of all papers accepted for publication must adhere to the IEEE Xplore PDF specifications.

Instructions for Authors

Paper submissions to ACII 2025 must use one of the following templates (as per IEEE specifications):

• Latex Template
• Overleaf Template
• Word Template

Carefully proofread your paper before submission.

Main Track, Special Track, and Workshop papers need to be submitted to EasyChair.

A paper may only be submitted to one track. Submitting the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed.

ArXiv Policy

ACII 2025 does not consider a paper on arXiv.org and similar preprint, open repositories to be a dual submission. However, papers deposited in ResearchGate, Academia, or paid-access repositories will not be accepted.

Guidelines for Anonymising Submissions

ACII 2025 follows a double-blind review process, requiring authors to prepare an anonymised submission.

To prepare an anonymised submission, authors must remove author and institutional identifiable information from all parts of the paper, including the acknowledgments section, and the PDF meta-data. None of the submission material can contain any information that directly or indirectly reveals the authors’ identity.

Institution information should also be removed from the body of the text. For instance, use “…participants were recruited from a university campus” instead of “…participants were recruited from University X.” Additionally, we recommend removing marks that identify institutional affiliation from images and supplementary videos (e.g., institutional attire, logos) as much as possible. However, pictures of equipment, robots, etc. used and study setup generally do not need to be anonymised, even if the robot uniquely identifies your group.

We also ask authors to leave the citations to their previous work following the same format as citations to others’ work. More concretely, as an example, when the authors refer to their previous work in the text, they should use “Prior work by [6]…” instead of “Our prior work [6]…”, and [6] should be included in the reference list with the same format as the other citations.

List of Topics

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

Committees

General Chairs

• Roland Goecke, UNSW Canberra, Australia
• Guoying Zhao, University of Oulu, Finland
• Björn Schuller, TU Munich/Imperial College London, UK

Program Chairs

• Tom Gedeon, Curtin University, Australia
• Zakia Hammal, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Shaun Canavan, University of South Florida, USA

Honorary Chairs

• Rosalind Picard, MIT, USA
• Jeffrey F Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Finance Chair

• Abhinav Dhall, Monash University, Australia

Special Track Chairs

• Nadia Berthouze, University College London, UK
• Jeffrey M Girard, University of Kansas

Workshop Chairs

• Josh Andres, Australian National University, Australia
• Rajib Rana, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Sharifa Alghowinem, MIT, USA
• Raiyan Abdul Baten, University of South Florida, USA
• Shiro Kumano, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan

Demo Chairs

• Ram Subramanian, University of Canberra, Australia
• Iulia Lefter, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Tutorial Chairs

• Leimin Tian, CSIRO Data61, Australia
• Theodora Chaspari, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Late Breaking Results Chair

• Benjamin Tag, University of New South Wales, Australia

Local Chair

• Raul Fernandez-Rojas, University of Canberra, Australia

Sponsorship Chairs

• Jyoti Joshi, Kroop.AI, India
• Michel Valstar, Blueskeye AI, UK

Publicity and Social Media Chair

• Shreya Ghosh, Curtin University, Australia

Web Chairs

• Ghazal Bargshady, University of Canberra, Australia
• Md Zakir Hossain, Curtin University, Australia

Venue

ACII 2025 will be an in-person event held at the Hotel Realm conference venue in Canberra, Australia.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Roland Goecke at r.goecke@unsw.edu.au