Sustained Accomplishment Award
(This award is given to a senior scientist who has made innovative, long-lasting, and influential contributions
to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems.)
We are very happy to announce that the Sustained Accomplishment Award 2021 is awarded to Elisabeth André,
University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/hcm/team/andre/. Elisabeth will
give a keynote talk on
Socially Interactive Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present and Future. For more information, please see Keynotes.
Elisabeth André is a full professor of Computer Science and Founding Chair of Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence at Augsburg University in Germany. She has a long track record in
multimodal human-machine interaction, embodied conversational agents, social robotics,
affective computing and social signal processing. Her work has won many awards including the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Prize 2021, with 2.5 Mio € the highest endowed German research
award. In 2010, Elisabeth André was elected a member of the prestigious Academy of Europe,
and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2017, she was elected to the CHI
Academy, an honorary group of leaders in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. To honor
her achievements in bringing Artificial Intelligence techniques to Human-Computer Interaction,
she was awarded a EurAI fellowship (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence) in 2013. In 2019, she was named one of the 10 most influential figures in the
history of AI in Germany by the National Society for Informatics (GI). Since 2019, she is serving
as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Blue Sky Papers Awards:
First Place: Sandy Pentland
Optimized Human-A.I. Group Decision Making: A Personal View
Second Place: Georgios Rizos
Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-Friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Third Place: Philippe Palanque
Dependability and Safety: Two Clouds in the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction
Best Paper Awards:
Best Paper: Exploiting the Interplay between Social and Task Dimensions of Cohesion to Predict its Dynamics Leveraging Social Sciences
Lucien Maman, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Mohamed Chetouani, Giovanna Varni
Honorable Mention: Bi-Bimodal Modality Fusion for Correlation-Controlled Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Wei Han, Hui Chen, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency, Soujanya Poria
Honorable Mention: A Multimodal Dataset and Evaluation for Feature Estimators of Temporal Phases of Anxiety
Hashini Senaratne, Levin Kuhlmann, Kirsten Ellis, Glenn Melvin, Sharon Oviatt
Best Reviewer Awards (Top 5%):
Michelle Annett
Dario Bertero
Brandon Booth
Jinghui Cheng
Euan Freeman
Shreya Ghosh
Salam Hanane
Tomi Heimonen
Thomas Janssoone
Taras Kucherenko
David Novick
Gerasimos Potamianos
Jesús Joel Rivas
David Robb
Katri Salminen
Leimin Tian
Özge Nilay Yalçın
Sang Ho Yoon
Outstanding Reviewer Awards (Top 10%):
Beatrice Biancardi
Hendrik Buschmeier
Alejandro Catala
Keith Curtis
Hung-Hsuan Huang
Koji Inoue
Jari Kangas
Shiro Kumano
Divesh Lala
Teruhisa Misu
Viktorija Paneva
Radiah Rivu
Gianluca Schiavo
Jean Vanderdonckt
