Call: SAT 2019 – International Workshop on Socio-Affective Technologies

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Call: SAT 2019 – International Workshop on Socio-Affective Technologies

July 16, 2019


CALL FOR PAPERS

SAT 2019
International Workshop on Socio-Affective Technologies: An Interdisciplinary Approach
https://socioaffectivetechnologies.wordpress.com/

In Conjunction with SMC 2019
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Bari (Italy), October 6-9, 2019
http://smc2019.org/

Submission deadline: July 21

PURPOSE

Within Human- Machine systems and interaction, the present workshop aims at featuring state of the scientific research on socio-affective technologies by integrating both the computational and psychological approach in the understanding, recognizing and shaping affective processes in real and new social environment (social media, virtual realty) even in educational contexts.

The two main focuses of the workshop will be on linguistic, visual and multimodal aspects of the mediated communication. The interdisciplinary approach of the workshop that will include psychologists, computer scientists, computational linguistics, will contribute to emphasize ways to strengthen interdisciplinary connections between the computational and human sciences of socio-affective dynamics.

TOPICS

  • Social computing
  • Social media analysis
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Social media dynamics (i.e. hate speech)
  • Computer Mediated Communication
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Inclusive technologies, E-democracy and political engagement
  • Ethical and legal issues in social computing and social media
  • Gaming
  • Mobile social computing and social media
  • User experience, user behaviour, user interface
  • User generated content (wikis, blogs, etc)
  • Visualizing social interaction
  • Virtual worlds
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Users with Special Needs
  • Social Environment for Education

SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION

All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed four (4) pages in length, including references. The papers must be formatted using the IEEE conference proceedings (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat19).

All the papers will be subject to a double-blind review process by the members of the Programme Committee. The proceedings with the papers accepted to the Workshop will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, and will be indexed by SCOPUS.

The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

July 21 Submission deadline
August 21 Review notification
Sep. 8 Camera ready submission
Oct. 6 SAT 2019 Workshop

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Berardina De Carolis, University of Bari – berardina.decarolis@uniba.it
Francesca D’Errico, Roma Tre University – francesca.derrico@uniroma3.it
Veronica Rossano, University of Bari – veronica.rossano@uniba.it


 
 

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