SCOPE
The themes of this Workshop are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their final aims to identifying features from realistic dynamics of signal exchanges. Such dynamics characterize, formal and informal social signals, communication modes, hearing and vision processes, and brain functionalities. Of particular 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 and support them through positively designed interventions aiming at improving their quality of life.
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 of behavioral patterns
- Human daily cognitive activities
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
- Anna Esposito
- Somdatta Chakraborty
- Maria Santina Ler
- Maria Sarno
- Miriam Veneziano
- Gennaro Cordasco
- Antonio Perna
IV. IMPORTANT DATES
- Extendend Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2026
- Camera-ready Deadline: May 15, 2026
- Workshop Dates: June 9-12, 2026
V. PUBLICATION AND PAGE LIMITATIONS
- Contributions will be published on the SPRINGER “Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies” (see Springer Guidelines for formatting guidelines and templates). The minimum paper length is 15 pages.
- Manuscripts should be submitted through the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wirn2026
- Please specify in the abstract the name of the title of the workshop: “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”
VI. REGISTRATION FEE
- The registration fee is 300 euros and includes the social dinner.
- Registration must be done through bank transfer and receipts must be exhibited at the conference.
Details can be found at https://siren.science/registration.html