[Eeglablist] Call for Papers: Affective BCI Workshop, Memphis, USA

[Christian Muehl]

** Call for Papers **

2nd Workshop on Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCI) Workshop at
ACII 2011 (October 9-12), Memphis, USA, October 9, 2011

Apologies for multiple postings


http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/abci2011
http://www.acii2011.org


The second workshop on affective brain-computer interfaces will
explore the advantages and limitations of using neuro-physiological
signals as a modality for the automatic recognition of affective and
cognitive states, and the possibilities of using this information
about the user state in innovative and adaptive applications. The goal
is to bring researchers from the communities of brain computer
interfacing, affective computing, neuro-ergonomics, affective and
cognitive neuroscience together to present state-of-the-art progress
and visions on the various overlaps between those disciplines.

Recent research in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) shows that brain
activity can be used as an active/voluntary, or passive/involuntary
control modality in man-machine interaction. While active BCI
paradigms have received a lot of attention in recent years, research
on passive approaches to BCI still desperately needs concerted
activity. However, it has been shown more than once that brain
activations can carry information about the affective and cognitive
state of a subject, and that the interaction between humans and
machines can be aided by the recognition of those user states. To
achieve robust passive BCIs, efforts from applied and basic sciences
have to be combined. On the one hand, applied fields such as affective
computing aim at the development of applications that adapt to changes
in the user states and thereby enrich the interaction, leading to a
more natural and effective usability. On the other hand, basic
research in neuroscience advances our understanding of the neural
processes associated with emotions. Furthermore, similar advancements
are being made for more cognitive mental states, for example,
attention, fatigue, and work load, which strongly interact with
affective states.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* emotion elicitation and data collection for affective BCI
* detection of affective and cognitive states with BCI and other modalities
* adaptive interfaces and affective BCI


Invited Talk:
'Brain Dynamics of Affective Engagement' by Scott Makeig, SCCN,
University of California at San Diego, USA


The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 4th International
conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
(ACII2011) at the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of
Memphis, TN.


Submission Instructions

* The papers should feature original empirical work, theoretical work,
or a well defendable but arguable position of the authors (i.e., not
submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference or
journal while in review).

* Papers will be published in the proceedings of ACII 2011 by Springer.
Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to
the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

* Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference
system, which can be accessed through the workshop web site and the
ACII conference website.

* For further information, contact abci at cs.utwente.nl


Important Dates:
15th of June:    Workshop papers due
1st   of July:   Notification of Acceptance
18th of July:    Camera-ready papers due
9th of October:  Workshop


Programme Chairs:
* Anton Nijholt, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
* Brendan Allison, TU Graz, Austria
* Stephen Dunne, Starlab Barcelona, Spain
* Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands


Local Organizer:
* Christian Mühl, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Programme Committee:
* Egon L. van den Broek, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
* Peter Desain, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* Jan B.F. van Erp, TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
* Stephen Fairclough, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
* Gary Garcia Molina, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Audrey Girouard, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
* Jonghwa Kim, University of Augsburg, Germany
* Brent Lance, Army Research Laboratory/TNB, Aberdeen Proving Ground, USA
* Robert Leeb, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
* Scott Makeig, University of California at San Diego, USA
* Femke Nijboer, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University, London, UK
* Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
* Olga Sourina, NanYang Technological University, Singapore
* Thomas J. Sullivan, NeuroSky, San Jose, USA
* Thorsten Zander, Graz University of Technology, Austria