ACII 2026: Call for Papers [Main Track]
Temi Olugbade
ACII 2026 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
September 7-11, 2026
Puebla, Mexico
https://acii-conf.net/2026/
Hello,
The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to submit your original research for presentation at ACII 2026. The theme for ACII 2026 is Emotions beyond borders: Multicultural Affective Computing. 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. The conference is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (PAMI-TC). All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2026 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Please see topics of interest and important dates below. For further details, including the submission guidelines, kindly visit ACII 2026 Main Track.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Main track full paper submission deadline: 27 March 2026
- Rebuttal notification for the main track: 21 May 2026
- Rebuttal period: 25-29 May 2026
- Paper notification for the main track: 13 June 2026
- Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 3 July 2026
- Early-bird registration deadline: 3 July 2026
- Conference (including workshops and tutorials, and DC): 7-11 September 2026
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
We would like to meet you in Puebla, Mexico!
Kind Regards,
ACII 2026 organizing committee