AfCAI Research Group homepage

The group name stands for Affective Computing Context Awareness and Ambient Intelligence as it identifies our most general research topics.

We are a group of researchers from the Jagiellonian University and AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.

We created an international workshop related to these topics.

— Grzegorz J. Nalepa 2016/07/24 17:40

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2024-01 The next AfCAI workshop will take place at IWINAC 2024! See you in Olhao, Portugal in June! For more details, see dedicated AfCAI 2024 workshop page.
2023-07 Summary of the AfCAI 2022 workshop (along with all other IWINAC 2022 sessions) is now published in Inf. Fusion [IF 18.6]
2022-06 BIRAFFE2 Data Descriptor published in Nature Scientific Data. Take a look at the paper and do not hesitate to use our dataset in your research!
2021-11 Two more papers on the BIRAFFE experiments have been published. Take a look at analysis of BIRAFFE2 and the development of affective game for BIRAFFE3.
2021-11 As a part of AIRA seminar series, Krzysztof Kutt will highlight the key findings of research conducted by AfCAI team during previous years. The seminar will start on Thursday 18.11.2021 at 15:30. See https://aira.geist.re/ for more details.
2021-01 Krzysztof Kutt received a research minigrant in the DigiWorld Priority Research Area UJ. The project named “Personality, Affective Context and the Brain (PANBA)” is aimed at analyzing data from the BIRAFFE2 experiment and preparing a new research procedure that includes the use of EEG.
2020-12 Two new papers related to our BIRAFFE series of experiments have been published. The first one describes the latest generation of affective games and is included in the proceedings of the MRC 2020 workshop. The second paper, published in Sensors (IF 3.275), contains a summary of the BIRAFFE1 experiment.
2020-08 Our three papers will be presented during workshops @ECAI 2020. Let's talk about Framework for Affective Games' Experiments @MRC and our BIRAFFE2 dataset @HAII. We will also present some recent results from PACMEL grant during KR4L. ECAI conference is fully online this year, so it is easier to join many fascinating events - let's meet there together!
2020-06 BIRAFFE2 Dataset from our 2nd Study in Bio-Reactions and Faces for Emotion-based Personalization for AI Systems (ECG, GSR, gamepad movements, facial expressions, personality traits, game questionnaire and more), the result of our experiment that had place in the winter 2020, is now available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence at Zenodo!
2019-09 BIRAFFE dataset (Bio-Reactions and Faces for Emotion-based Personalization) with ECG and GSR signals, facial expressions, personality traits and more, collected by us in the spring 2019, is now available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence at Zenodo!
2019-07 AfCAI 2019 workshop announced, it will be held on 11-12 November in Cartagena, Spain
2019-06 Sensors2019 paper on the use of wearable sensors for providing affect-based adaptation in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems
2019-06 ICAISC2019 paper on the affective game prototypes developed by the AfCAI team
2018-10 CoSECiVi2018 paper on the development of mobile software platform for emotion identification using wearable devices
2018-08 GEM2018 paper on the affective game design patterns
2018-07 PLUX the company behind Bitalino mentions our comparative study from ICAISC2018
2018-07 HAI2018 paper on the design of games with affective loop presented as demo at HAI and receives The Popular Choice Award for the most downloaded paper of the workshop
2018-07 HSI2018 paper on the Bandreader
2018-06 FGCS2018b paper on affective patterns in serious games
2018-06 ICAISC2018 paper on the use of Bitalino and other platforms for AfC experiments
2018-05 larger experiments aimed at detecting HR/GSR response during playing affective games
2018-04 The AfCAI 2018 Workshop was held in Valencia
2018-03 FGCS2018a paper on mobile platform for affective context-aware systems
2017-09 FedCSIS2017 paper on the affective scrollrunner game presented in Prague
2017-05 first experiments with scrollrunner prototype
2017-03 Open call for the special issue of FGCS related to the selected topics of AfCAI
2017-01 Open call for the special issue of JHCS related to the topic of Cognitive Assistants
2016-11 The AfCAI 2016 Workshop was held in Murcia
2016-02 GJN receives a grant Jiménez de la Espada from Fundación Séneca - Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia to work on AfC topics in Universidad de Murcia, Spain
2015-12 first grant proposal on AfC topics submitted to the polish NCN, in fact with no success

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The workshop will be held as part of the 10th International Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC2024), in Real Marina Hotel & Spa, Olhao, Algarve, Portugal on 4 June - 7 June, 2024.

The objective of the workshop is to bring together people interested in research on affective computing, ambient intelligence, and context aware systems. We assume a goal-oriented yet multidisciplinary research approach, including computer science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and experimental sciences. We consider both fundamental and applied research with participation of companies where possible. Furthermore, we focus at having working sessions dedicated to identifying opportunities for cooperation and joint project applications.

Chairs:

Krzysztof Kutt, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
José Manuel Ferrández Vicente, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
José Tomás Palma Méndez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Vicente Julián, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

Read more on the dedicated workshop page.

The workshop will be held as part of the 9th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC2022), in Hotel Botánico, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), on May 31 - June 3, 2022.

The objective of the workshop is to bring together people interested in research on affective computing, ambient intelligence, and context aware systems. We assume a goal-oriented yet multidisciplinary research approach, including computer science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and experimental sciences. We consider both fundamental and applied research with participation of companies where possible. Furthermore, we focus at having working sessions dedicated to identifying opportunities for cooperation and joint project applications.

Chairs:

Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
José Manuel Ferrández Vicente, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
José Tomás Palma Méndez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Vicente Julián, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Krzysztof Kutt, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

Read more on the dedicated workshop page.

See the “Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence” part in the IWINAC 2022 Proceedings, Vol. II for the AfCAI 2022 workshop papers: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06527-9

Two day workshop will be held in Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, on 11-12 November 2019.

The objective of the workshop was to bring together people interested in research on affective computing, ambient intelligence, and context aware systems. We assume a goal-oriented yet multidisciplinary research approach, including computer science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and experimental sciences. We consider both fundamental and applied research with participation of companies where possible. Furthermore, we focus at having working sessions dedicated to identifying opportunities for cooperation and joint project applications.

Chairs:

Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Jagiellonian University
José Manuel Ferrández Vicente, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
José Tomás Palma Méndez, Universidad de Murcia
Vicente Julian, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Read more on the dedicated workshop page.

See CEUR proceedings of the AfCAI 2019 workshop: CEUR 2609

Two day workshop was held in Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, on 19-20 April 2018.

Chairs:

Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Jagiellonian University
Vicente Julian, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
José Tomás Palma Méndez, Universidad de Murcia

Read more on the dedicated workshop page.

See CEUR proceedings of the AfCAI 2018 workshop: CEUR 2166

The Post-AfCAI 2016 Issue of the FGCS

Grzegorz J. Nalepa, José Tomás Palma Méndez, Maria Trinidad Herrero Ezquerro Affective Computing in Ambient Intelligence Systems - the open call
Grzegorz J. Nalepa, José Palma, Maria Trinidad Herrero Affective computing in ambient intelligence systems https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.11.016
O-Joun Lee, Jason J.Jung Modeling affective character network for story analytics DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.01.030
Angelo Costa, Jaime A.Rincon, Carlos Carrascosa, Vicente Julian Emotions detection on an ambient intelligent system using wearable devices DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.03.038
Grzegorz J.Nalepa, Krzysztof Kutt, Szymon Bobek Mobile platform for affective context-aware systems DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.02.033
Jaromir Przybyło, Eliasz Kańtoch, Piotr Augustyniak Eyetracking-based assessment of affect-related decay of human performance in visual tasks DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.02.012
Raúl Lara-Cabrera, David Camacho A taxonomy and state of the art revision on affective games DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2017.12.056
Jan K.Argasiński, Paweł Węgrzyn Affective patterns in serious games DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.06.013
Leon Ciechanowski, Aleksandra Przegalinska, Mikolaj Magnuski, Peter Gloor In the shades of the uncanny valley: An experimental study of human–chatbot interaction DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.01.055
Davide Carneiro, Paulo Novais, Dalila Durães, José Miguel Pego, Nuno Sousa Predicting completion time in high-stakes exams DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.01.061

Two day workshop was held in Universidad de Murcia, Spain, on 24-25 November 2016.

The objective of the workshop is to bring together people interested in research on affective computing, ambient intelligence, and context aware systems We assume goal oriented yet multidisciplinary research approach, including computer science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and experimental sciences. We consider both fundamental and applied research with participation of companies where possible. We aim at identifying opportunities for cooperation and EU project applications.

Organizers/Chairs:

Maria Trinidad Herrero Ezquerro, Universidad de Murcia
Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Jagiellonian University
José Tomás Palma Méndez, Universidad de Murcia

Read more on the dedicated workshop page and in the AfCAI workshop call for papers

See CEUR proceedings of the AfCAI 2016 workshop: CEUR 1794

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