AffCon 2021
Affective Content Analysis 2021

Table of Contents

• Editorial for the 4th Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon) at AAAI 2021 1-6
  Kokil Jaidka , Niyati Chhaya , Jennifer Healey , Lyle Ungar , Atanu Sinha
  Summary: There were 12 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, 5 as regular papers and 1 as short papers.

AffCon21 Session 1

• (keynote) Best Practices in Automating Affect Recognition Rosalind Picard
• A Two-stage Multi-modal Affect Analysis Framework for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 7-14
  Jicheng Li , Anjana Bhat , Roghayeh Barmaki
• (Best paper) Comparison and Analysis of Deep Audio Embeddings for Music Emotion Recognition 15-22
  Eunjeong Koh , Shlomo Dubnov

AffCon21 Session 2

• ABL-MICRO: Opportunities for Affective AI Built Using a Multimodal Microaggression Dataset 23-29
  Gloria Washington , Gishawn Mance , Saurav Aryal , Mikel Kengni
• (keynote) What Text Analysis Cannot Tell Us: The Importance of Observation in Understanding Creative Teams Page Moreau
• (keynote) Towards an artificial intuition: Conversational markers of (anti)social dynamics Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
• (keynote) AI-assisted Human creativity Devi Parikh

AffCon21 Session 3

• Empirical Assessment and Characterization of Homophily in Classes of Hate Speeches 30-34
  Seema Nagar , Sameer Gupta , C.S Bahushruth , Ferdous Barbhuiya , Kuntal Dey
• Towards A Six-Level Framework of Emotional Intelligence for Customer Service Chatbots 35-42
  Qicheng Ding , V. Ivan Sanchez Carmona , Mingming Liu , Fangzhen Peng , Yu Zhang , Changjian Hu ,
• Music Speaks in Emotions 43-44
  Hortense Fong , Vineet Kumar