It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Systems (ERM4CT) held in conjecture with the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). The ERM4CT is a joint workshop of the 3rd Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling in Human-Computer- Interaction Systems (ERM4HCI) and the 2nd Workshop on Techniques Towards Companion Technologies (T2CT). This year's workshop continues the tradition of providing an international and interdisciplinary platform for researchers from the areas of human-computer-interaction, affective computing and emotion recognition and detection. The joint workshop aims at highlighting the specific issues associated with the multi-modal representation and detection of emotions as needed within companion technologies.
The call for papers attracted submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee accepted to present 55% of the papers submitted to the workshop.
We wish to encourage attendees to visit the keynote talk and our plenary discussion at the end of the workshop. These two options will provide valuable discussion and new perspectives on the topic of emotional aware HCI systems. The keynote talk will be held by David Traum:
Do's and Don'ts for Software Companions, David Traum (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)