C2 2017: 1st Workshop on Character Computing

where affective computing and psychology meet personified interfaces and adaptive systems

Nov 26th, 2017 — Stuttgart, Germany

C2 2017, the 1st Workshop on Character Computing is part of MUM 2017, the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia which will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, November 26th - 29th.
The workshop covers multiple disciplines that come together to nurture the developing field of Character Computing. Contributions from any of (but not limited to) the following fields are welcome: Affective Computing, Personality Computing, Cognitive Computing, Psychology, Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Data Science, Adaptive Systems, Personified Interfaces.

C2 2017 is designed as a full day activity including four sessions on November 26th. There is no specific registration for C2 2017. Registration for the workshop’s day is available from the workshop hosting conference (MUM2017) and allows participants to attend any workshop that day. The deadline for for the early bird registration is November 3rd, 2017. Participation in the workshop without paper submissions is also highly welcomed.

The aim of this workshop is to harness and extend the advances of Affective and Personality Computing for and through computational means. Character Computing aims at providing a novel perspective on affective and personality computing, enabling the presence of ubiquitous and non-obtrusive character-aware adaptive systems. We define Character Computing as computing that is based on, detects and adapts to human character traits. Character is the defining variable of any human. If systems can understand character, combine it with the current state and respond accordingly this would be a step towards bridging the gap between humans and machines.

The workshop hopes to bring together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges, in a comfortable and effective single-track conference format.

List of Accepted Papers

List of Topics

Participants from any, but not limited to, of the following fields of expertise are highly appreciated:

  • Affective Computing
  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Computing
  • Personality Computing
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Personified Interfaces
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Biotechnology

    • Papers advertising expertise in any of the above mentioned fields are highly appreciated. Also, Character Computing-related paper topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Personal traits detection using various approaches, e.g. lifelogging, pattern detection systems, and biodata.
  • Learning characters from various sensing devices and correlating between traits and captured bio-data.
  • Infrastructures, frameworks and tools for the development of real and non-real time character-aware systems.
  • Applications of character-based adaptive systems.
  • Use of machine learning and data science approaches for mapping users’ bio-data to character traits.
  • Recognizing unobtrusive bio-sensors that are suitable for detecting personality traits.

    • The submission guidelines can be found here.

    Important Dates

    Paper submission deadline• 15th of November, 2017
    Camera ready deadline•20th of November, 2017
    C2 2017 workshop date•26th of November, 2017

    Committees

    Organizing Committee
  • Alia el Bolock, German University in Cairo, Egypt;
  • Jailan Salah, German University in Cairo, Egypt;
  • Slim Abdennadher, German University in Cairo, Egypt;
  • Yomna Abdelrahman, University of Stuttgart, Germany;
    • Program Committee
    TBA

    Venue

    The workshop will be held at University of Stuttgart, Simtech Cluster of Excellence building, in Stuttgart, Germany.

    Contact

    All questions about submissions should be emailed to alia.elbolock@guc.edu.eg.