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EAST-EI: Explainable Affective Systems for Transparency in Emotionally Intelligent Interactions

Welcome to our EAST-EI Workshop! We welcome a diverse audience from affective computing, explainable AI, HCI, and related fields.

Saturday 11 October 2025 - ACII 2025 Workshop - Canberra, Australia

Call for Participation

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly embedded in our daily lives, from virtual companions and social platforms to wearable technologies and physical environments such as eldercare robots. With this proliferation, a critical challenge that has emerged is understanding how AI systems make decisions involving human emotions and related data.

EAST-EI workshop, in line with the conference theme Socially Responsible Affective Computing, aims to bring together leading researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to explore the complex challenges of explainable affective systems, focusing on human emotions, multimodal data, and the role of XAI in ensuring ethical and fair practices. Building robust, explainable affective systems and designing transparent, emotionally intelligent interactions are critical to fostering trust and ensuring compliance with ethical guidelines.

We invite research papers and works-in-progress submissions that address various aspects of XAI research in affective systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

  • XAI for Behavioural Analysis
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  • User-centred Explanations for AI-driven Systems and Interfaces for Affective Computing
  • Multimodal XAI in the Context of Affective Computing
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  • XAI Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
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  • Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency, and Ethics in Affective Computing
  • Models of Emotion, Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Bias, Imbalance, and Inequalities in Data and Modelling Approaches in Affective Computing
  • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction
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  • XAI for Spatial Affective Computing in Immersive Environments
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    Paper Submission Guidelines

    Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner, and each submission will receive 2 to 3 reviews.

    Please follow ACII 2025's guidelines when preparing your submissions.

    Accepted papers will be published and indexed on IEEExplore in the ACIIW proceedings, which include the doctoral consortium, demos, and workshops of ACII 2025.

    Please prepare your manuscripts as per the IEEE specification:

  • Word Template
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  • Latex Template
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  • Overleaf Template
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    Please submit papers to EasyChair.

    Important Dates

    Submission Deadline 30 June 2025
    Notification of Acceptance 28 July 2025
    Camera-Ready Deadline 20 August 2025
    Workshop Date 11 October 2025

    Tentative Agenda

    Welcome and Introduction 5-10 minutes
    Keynote 45 minutes
    Paper Session 1 (3-4 presentations) 1-1.5 hour
    Coffee Break 15 minutes
    Paper Session 2 (3-4 presentations) 1-1.5 hour
    Closing Remarks 5-10 minutes

    Organisers

    Headshot Gelareh Mohammadi A./Prof. Gelareh Mohammadi, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    Headshot Matt Dr Matt Adcock, CSIRO, Data61, Canberra, Australia
    Headshot Rukshani Dr Rukshani Somarathna, CSIRO, Data61, Canberra, Australia
    Headshot Yashothara Dr Yashothara Shanmugarasa, CSIRO, Data61, Sydney, Australia
    Headshot Madhawa Dr Madhawa Perera, CSIRO, Data61, Canberra, Australia

    Technical Program Committee

    Dr Benjamin Tag (University of New South Wales, Australia)
    Dr M.A.P. Chamikara (CSIRO’s Data61, Australia)
    Dr Hao Xue (University of New South Wales, Australia)
    Dr Hashini Senaratne (CSIRO’s Data61, Australia)
    Dr Dilshani Kumarapeli (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
    Dr Kunal Gupta (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
    Yongquan Hu (Augmented Human Lab, NUS, Singapore)