Topics of interest
ESSEM aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both from academy and industry. The workshop wants to take an active part in growing a new field in terms of multi-disciplinary research and to identify and investigate important open issues by cross-validating different approaches in emotion research. Therefore we encourage the submission of research papers from different areas: intelligent agents and multi/agent systems, natural language processing, affective computing, interactive multimodal systems semantic web. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- emotions in virtual agents
- emotion-aware multi agent systems
- subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social & expressive media -
- sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social & expressive media
- emotion models and ontologies of emotions
- social simulation and emotions in cooperative MAS environments
- emotions and regulation of agent interaction
- emotions in cooperation and teamwork
- role of emotions in agent negotiation
- emotions in interactive entertainment (drama, storytelling, games, etc.)
- emotions in embodiment
- emotions and norms in agent societies
- emotions in multimodal agent interaction
- affective behavior
- agency and affect in natural language
- emotions in human-agent interaction and communication
- emotions and models of reputation and trust
- applications of sentiment analysis on social & expressive media
