http://afcai.eu held in Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, on 11-12 November 20191 Affective computing (AfC) is a multidisciplinary research approach regarding practical modeling and use of information about human emotions in computer systems. Originally proposed over 20 years ago, it became a field where researchers and practitioners from computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) meet with psychologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, and researchers from humanities. The main objectives of the AfCAI workshop series is to put selected problems and methods from the area of AfC into a specific engineering context. Our focus is to consider use cases and applications of AfC techniques within the scope of context-aware systems and ambient intelligence. The workshop series was originally proposed by Grzegorz J. Nalepa. The first AfCAI workshop was organized in Universidad de Murcia, Spain in November 2016, with Maria Trinidad Herrero Ezquerro and José Tomás Palma Méndez as co-chairs. It featured 13 oral presentations, an invited lecture from researchers from 5 countries and a brainstorming session. After the workshop, a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems journal from Elsevier was edited. The second edition was organized in April 2018 in Universitat Politècnica de València and co-chaired by Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Vicente Julian, and José Palma and included 14 papers from 8 countries.
human-machine and computational requirements in an integrated way. Specifically, he sketches an approach for the socio-technical design of explicative systems enabling transparent, interpretable and explainable analytics of social interactions.
These submissions present an interesting and developing research landscape. Considering the growing success of the workshop, we are planning to continue organizing it. The next edition is planned for the mid 2021 in Spain.
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