The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
📚︎ Affective Perception and Multimodal Interaction
Facial expression recognition and micro‑expression analysis
Speech emotion recognition and prosodic modeling
Physiological signal‑based emotion decoding (EEG, ECG, EDA, etc.)
Multimodal affective information fusion and alignment
Context‑aware affective understanding
Affective tracking and prediction in dynamic scenes
Cross‑cultural emotional expression and recognition
Construction and annotation of affective datasets
📚︎ Affective Cognition and Theory‑of‑Mind Modeling
Interactive mechanisms between emotion and cognition
Empathy computing and theory of mind
Affective memory and personalized modeling
Social emotions and group emotional evolution
Commonsense‑driven emotional reasoning
Modeling the interplay between emotion and decision‑making
Long‑term affective dynamics and emotional state transitions
Brain‑inspired affective processing mechanisms
📚︎ Affective Generation and Human‑Machine Empathy
Empathetic dialogue systems and affective interaction
Text‑based affective generation and style control
Speech emotion synthesis and expressive rendering
Facial expression generation and virtual human interaction
Affective story generation and creative writing
Emotional coherence in multi‑turn interactions
Personality modeling and adaptive affective feedback
Mechanisms for building human‑machine emotional trust
📚︎ Cross‑Disciplinary Applications and Governance of Affective Computing
Affective diagnosis and intervention in smart healthcare
Affective cognition and personalized learning in intelligent education
Emotion monitoring in smart cockpits and driving scenarios
Mental health assessment and intelligent companionship
Affective adaptability in human‑robot collaboration
Fairness and bias mitigation in affective computing
Privacy protection and ethical governance of affective data
Explainability and trustworthy evaluation of affective AI