I. THEMES AND SCOPE

This session is seeking for theoretical and experimental foundations for implementing socially and emotionally believable ICT interfaces. The proposed themes are multidisciplinary in nature and closely connected in their final aims of identifying features to decode realistic communication dynamics. Such dynamics characterize formal and informal social signals, communication modes, hearing and vision processes, and brain functionalities. Of interest are analyses of visual, written and auditory information and corresponding computational efforts to automatically detect and interpret their semantic and pragmatic contents. Related applications of these interdisciplinary facets are ICT interfaces able to detect health and affective states of their users, interpret their psychological and behavioral patterns providing intelligent support to enhance their well-being and quality of life

II. TOPICS

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

• Empathic conversational systems and agents
• Applications for mental health and wellbeing
• Signals for detecting affective wellbeing and emotional states
• Detection of health and psychological states from multimodal signals
• Social networks for information spread and share
• Empathic ICT interfaces
• Computational Architectures for Affective Systems
• Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Algorithms in Affective Systems
• Human and/or machine encoding and decoding behavioral patterns
• Human daily cognitive activities
• …

III. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS affiliations

Terry Amorese, Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychology, terry.amores@unicampania.it

Marialucia Cuciniello, Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychology, marialucia.cuciniello@unicampania.it

Anna Esposito,  Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychology, anna.esposito@unicampania.it

Antonietta M. Esposito Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, antonietta.esposito@ingv.it

Gennaro Cordasco,  Università di Salerno, Department of Computer Science, gcordasco@unisa.it

Antonio Perna, Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychology, antonio.perna1@unicampania.it

Carl Vogel, Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland, carl.vogel@tcd.ie

IV. IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submission Deadline: April 1 May 1, 2025 (only an extended abstract uploaded to Easy Chair)
• Notification of acceptance: May 1 May 20, 2025
• Camera-ready copy:  June 1, 2025 (final paper submission max. 15 pages)
• Conference Dates: June 4-6, 2025

V. PUBLICATION AND PAGE LIMITATIONS

• Contributions will be published on the SRINGER “Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies” (see http://www.springer.com/series/8767 for formatting guidelines and templates). The maximum paper length is 15 pages. Manuscripts should be submitted through the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wirn2025. Please specify in the abstract the name of the special session: “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”

• For Info, clarifications, and support please contact:

1. Antonio Perna, antonioperna@unicampania.it, or
2. Gennaro Cordasco, gcordasco@unisa.it

VI. REGISTRATION FEE

• The registration fee is 250 euros and includes the social dinner.
• Registration must be done through bank transfer and receipts must be exhibited at the conference.

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