[humaine news] ACII Doctoral Consortium: Deadline moved to June 10th

[Kostas Karpouzis]

Due to several requests, the deadline has been moved to:

              *** Wednesday, June 10th 2009 ***

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ACII 2009 Doctoral Consortium
http://www.acii2009.nl/content/call+for+doctoral+consortium+papers
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The ACII 2009 Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as forum for PhD students 
to share ideas about the theories behind affective computing; its 
development; and its application. The goal of this Special Session of 
the Conference is to compare approaches, discuss future research 
problems and receive feedback from the international community.

The aims of the Doctoral Consortium:

- to provide PhD students with a friendly and lively atmosphere for 
presenting their research ideas, exchanging experiences with peers, and 
receiving constructive feedback on their work from the international 
research community;
- to help students and doctoral candidates to formulate research 
questions and organise their research;
- to help to forge new relationships and collaborations within the 
International ACII community, promoting collaborative research;
- to support a new generation of researchers with information and advice 
on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths.

Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium will be published in a 
self-contained volume (separate from the Conference Proceedings), with 
an ISBN.


Submissions

Submission should describe PhD research that is at a stage where 
feedback from the international community might be of value. Thus, it is 
expected that students who will submit papers should be closing to make 
a PhD research proposal, or have made it already but have at least a 
year of work remaining to complete their PhD thesis. Submissions must 
not exceed eight pages (including references). They should be well 
organised and structured in a way that demonstrates the links between 
the concepts presented, and they should clearly specify:

- the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing and how this 
  fits into the bigger picture
- the aims and objectives of the research
- the methodology to achieve the objectives and the proposed 
solution(s), including a brief description of work done so far and a 
tentative plan for   future work
- the main contribution(s) of the research to the development of 
Affective Computing

Paper topics should be related to the conference topics, which are given 
in the general call for papers (see www.acii2009.nl).

Papers should be a maximum of 8 pages, including references. Submissions 
should be made in electronic format as PDF files. Detailed formatting 
instructions are given on the Doctoral Consortium web-page.

The deadline submission is June 5, 2009. Please send your paper as an 
attachment to an email message to all three ACII'09 Doctoral Consortium 
Co-chairs:

- Roddy Cowie [r.cowie at qub.ac.uk]
- Catherine Pelachaud [catherine.pelachaud at telecom-paristech.fr]
- Alessandro Vinciarelli [alessandro.vinciarelli at idiap.ch]

If you have any questions regarding submissions, please email one of the 
Co-Chairs.

Important Dates

* Doctoral Consortium Proposal Submission:  ** June 10, 2009 **
* Doctoral Consortium Notification: July 3, 2009
* Early registration for students: July 17, 2009
* Camera-Ready Version Submissions: July 24, 2009


Programme Committee

* Shazia Afzal (University of Cambridge)
* Barbara Caputo (Idiap Research Institute)
* Ginevra Castellano (Queen Mary University London)
* Alfred Dielmann (Idiap Research Institute)
* Didier Grandjean (University of Geneva)
* Hatice Gunes (Imperial College London)
* Jennifer Hanratty (Queen's University Belfast)
* Dirk Heylen (University of Twente)
* Kostas Karpouzis (National Technical University of Athens)
* Margaret McRorie (Queen's University of Belfast)
* Daniela Romano (University of Sheffield)
* Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS)
* Gualtiero Volpe (University of Genova)