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Sessions<\/b><\/h4>\n
Conference Program Overview (click to enlarge)<\/h5>\n

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Download the detailed program here: Detailed Program 2025<\/a>\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

Proceedings: toc\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Adjunct Events Day 1 – Monday, 13 October 2025<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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08:00-17:00 Registration<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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09:00 – 17:30 Doctoral Consortium<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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09:00 – 09:10<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Opening and Welcome<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Session 1: LLMs for multimodal interactions<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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09:10 – 09:35<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Cognitive Effort Analysis in Digital Learning Environments<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Shayla Sharmin<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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09:35 – 10:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Enhancing Accessibility in Animation: A Context-Aware Audio Description System for Visually Impaired Children<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Md Fahad Bin Zamal<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10:00 – 10:25<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Designing Multimodal Nonverbal Communication Cues for Multirobot Supervision Through Event Detection and Policy Mapping<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Richard Attfield<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10:25 – 10:45<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Short Break 1<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Session 2: Cognitive and emotion state modelling<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10:45 – 11:05<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Towards Intelligent Adaption in Cognitive Assistance Systems through Physiological Computing<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Jordan Schneider<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11:05 – 11:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Towards Context-sensitive Emotion Recognition<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Sayak Mukherjee<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11:30 – 11:55<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Differentiating Frustration from Cognitive Workload in a Dual-task System<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Heting Wang<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11:55 – 12:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Multimodal Analysis of Caregiving Interactions in Simulation-Based Training<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Behdokht Kiafar<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12:30 – 13:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Lunch Break<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Session 3: Social interaction & behaviours<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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13:30 – 13:55<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviours in Social Dynamics<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Mr Pritesh Nalinbhai Contractor<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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13:55 – 14:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Multimodal Conversational Events Estimation in Complex Social Scenes<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Litian Li<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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14:20 – 14:45<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Modeling Social Dynamics from Multimodal Cues in Natural Conversations<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Kevin Hyekang Joo<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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14:45 – 15:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Short Break 2<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Session 4: Virtual Reality and interaction<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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15:00 – 15:25<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Designing and Evaluating Gen-AI for Cultural Resilience<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Ka Hei Carrie Lau<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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15:25 – 15:50<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Towards Seamless Interaction: Neuroadaptive Virtual Reality Interfaces for Target Selection<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Jalynn Blu Nicoly<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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15:50 – 16:15<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Developing Virtual Reality (VR) Simulations with Embedded User Analytics for Cognitive Rehabilitation in PTSD Veterans<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Ravi Varman Selvakumaran<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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16:15 – 16:25<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Short Break 3<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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16:25 – 17:25<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Panel session<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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17:25 – 17:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Closing<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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08:00 – 16:00 <\/span>AAP Workshop<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
09:00<\/td>\nOpening: Zakia Hammal, Steffen Walter, and Nadia Berthouze<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00-10:00<\/td>\nInvited talk<\/span><\/td>\nTBD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00-10:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-12:00<\/td>\nPaper presentation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-10:45<\/td>\nCanonical Time Series Features for Pain Classification by Sai Revanth Reddy Boda et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>10:45-11:00<\/td>\nWhen Features Matter More than Sequence: A Case for Tabular In Context Learning in Pain Classification by Richard A. A. Jonker et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11:00-11:15<\/td>\nFeel the Pain: An Interpretable Multimodal Approach for Physiological Signal-Based Pain Detection by Tahia Tazin et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11:15-11:30<\/td>\nTiny-BioMoE: a Lightweight Embedding Model for Biosignal Analysis by Stefanos Gkikas et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11:30-11:45<\/td>\nThe AI4Pain Grand Challenge 2025: Advancing Pain Assessment with Multimodal Physiological Signals by Raul Fernandez Rojas et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>11:45-12:00<\/td>\nPainXtract: A Multimodal System for Multiclass Pain Classification Using Physiological Signals by Anup Kumar Gupta et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00-13:30<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch break<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30-16:00<\/td>\nPaper presentation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>13:30-13:45<\/td>\nA Multimodal Deep Learning Exploration for Pain Intensity Classification by Javier Orlando Pinzon-Arenas et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>13:45-14:00<\/td>\nExplaining Pain by Combining Deep Learning Models and Physiology-Driven Ensembles using PPG, EDA, and Respiration by Miguel Javierre et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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14:00-14:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

EnsembleIQ-Pain: Intelligent Cluster Calibration for Personalized Pain Detection by Rupal Agarwal et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>14:15-14:30<\/td>\nPainthenticate: Feature Engineering on Multimodal Physiological Signals by Sajeeb Datta et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30-15:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>15:00-15:15<\/td>\nInvestigation into Unimodal Versus Multimodal Pain Recognition from Physiological Signals by Anis Elebiary et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>15:15-15:30<\/td>\nEfficient Pain Recognition via Respiration Signals: A Single Cross-Attention Transformer Multi-Window Fusion Pipeline by Stefanos Gkikas et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>15:30-15:45<\/td>\nMulti-Representation Diagrams for Pain Recognition: Integrating Various Electrodermal Activity Signals into a Single Image by Stefanos Gkikas et al.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:45-16:00<\/strong><\/td>\nClosing<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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9:00 – 12:30 Deepfake Tutorial<\/span><\/h4>\n

Abhinav Dhall, Zhixi Cai, Shreya Ghosh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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13:30 – 18:00 <\/span>CCMI Workshop<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
13:15<\/span><\/td>\nOpening and Welcome<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Session 1<\/span><\/p>\n

Session Chair: Koji Inoue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

13:20<\/span><\/td>\nBenchmarking Visual Generative Models through Cultural Lens: A Case Study with Singapore-Centric Multi-Cultural Context <\/span>(Long, 20 min)<\/span><\/i><\/td>\nAli Koksal, Loke Mei Hwan, Hui Li Tan, Nancy F. Chen\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:40<\/span><\/td>\n\n

Culture-Aware Multimodal Personality Prediction using Audio, Pose, and Cultural Embeddings<\/span><\/p>\n

(Short, 15 min)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Islam J A M Samiul, Khalid ZAMAN, Marius Funk, Masashi Unoki, Yukiko Nakano, Shogo Okada\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:55<\/span><\/td>\nInvited Talk 1: Multimodal Deepfake Detection Across Cultures and Languages<\/span><\/td>\nAbhinav Dhall<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30<\/span><\/td>\nBreak<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 2 Session Chair: Shogo Okada<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00<\/span><\/td>\nMultimodal grounding in HRI using two types of nods in Japanese and Finnish <\/span>(Long, 20 min)<\/span><\/i><\/td>\nTaiga Mori, Kristiina Jokinen, Leo Huovinen, Biju Thankachan<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:20<\/span><\/td>\nAnalyzing Multimodal Multifunctional Interactions in Multiparty Conversations via Functional Spectrum Factorization <\/span>(Long, 20 min)<\/span><\/i><\/td>\nMomoka Tajima, Issa Tamura, Kazuhiro Otsuka<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:40<\/span><\/td>\nMultiGen: Child-Friendly Multilingual Speech Generator with LLMs <\/span>(Short 15 min)<\/span><\/i><\/td>\nXiaoxue Gao, Huayun Zhang, Nancy F. Chen<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:55<\/span><\/td>\nContextualized Visual Storytelling for Conversational Chatbot in Education <\/span>(Short, 15 min)<\/span><\/i><\/td>\nHui Li Tan, Gu Ying, Liyuan Li, Mei Chee Leong, Nancy F. Chen<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:10<\/span><\/td>\nBreak<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:20<\/span><\/td>\nInvited talk: Cross-cultural studies on human-human and human-agent interaction<\/span><\/td>\nYukiko Nakano<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:55<\/span><\/td>\nPanel discussion<\/span><\/td>\nYukiko Nakano, Abhinav Dhall, Liu Zhengyuan, Shogo Okada<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:25<\/span><\/td>\nClosing<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Main conference<\/b><\/h4>\n

Day 1 – Tuesday, 14 October 2025<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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08:30 – 09:00 Welcome<\/span><\/h4>\n

ICMI 2025 General Chairs and Program Chairs<\/span><\/p>\n

09:00 – 10:00 Keynote<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Yukiko Nakano<\/span><\/p>\n

Multimodal Task Analysis in Wearable Contexts<\/span><\/p>\n

Julien Epps<\/p>\n

10:00 – 10:30 Break<\/span><\/h4>\n

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10:30 – 12:00 Oral Session 1: Affect & Behaviour Understanding<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Shohgo Okada<\/span><\/p>\n

10:30 – 10:48<\/span><\/p>\n

Multimodal Behavioral Characterization of Dyadic Alliance in Support Groups<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Hyekang Joo, Zongjian Li, Yunwen Wang, Yuanfeixue Nan, Mina Kian, Shriya Upadhyay, Maja Mataric, Lynn Carol Miller, Mohammad Soleymani<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

10:48 – 11:06<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes you say yes? An investigation of mental state and personality in persuasion during a dyadic conversation<\/span><\/p>\n

Siyuan Chen<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

11:06 – 11:24 (Best paper award nominee)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Decoding Affective States without Labels: Bimodal Image-brain Supervision<\/span><\/p>\n

Vadym Gryshchuk, Maria Maistro, Christina Lioma, Tuukka Ruotsalo<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

11:24 – 11:42<\/span><\/p>\n

Can Adaptive Interviewer Robots Based on Social Signals Make a Better Impression on Interviewees and Encourage Self-Disclosure?<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuminori Nagasawa, Shogo Okada<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

11:42 – 12:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Foundation Feature-Guided Hierarchical Fusion of EEG-Physiological for Emotion Estimation<\/span><\/p>\n

Haifeng Zhang, Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela, Yukie Nagai<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

12:00-13:30 Lunch<\/span><\/h4>\n

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13:30-14:30 Keynote (Sustained Accomplishment Award<\/span> Talk)<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Ramanathan Subramanian<\/span><\/p>\n

From audio, through haptics to augmented reality: travels in multimodal interaction <\/span>Stephen Brewster<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

14:30-15:30 Blue Sky Papers<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Alessandro Vinciarelli<\/span><\/p>\n

14:30 – 15:00<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Authenticity and Flourishing in an AI-Driven World: Edmund’s Journey and the Call for Mindfulness<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian Zepf, Mark Colley<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

15:00 – 15:30<\/span><\/p>\n

MUSE: A Multimodal, Generative, and Symbolic Framework for Human Experience Modeling<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammad Rashedul Hasan<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

15:30-16:00 Break<\/span><\/h4>\n

16:00-18:00\u00a0 Poster Session 1 (including DC posters)<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Madhawa Perera<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotion and Affect<\/span><\/p>\n

Privileged Contrastive Pretraining for Multimodal Affect Modelling<\/span><\/p>\n

Kosmas Pinitas, Konstantinos Makantasis, Georgios Yannakakis<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A Multifaceted Multi-Agent Framework for Zero-Shot Emotion Analysis and Recognition of Symbolic Music<\/span><\/p>\n

Jiahao Zhao, Yunjia Li, Kazuyoshi Yoshii<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Disentangling Cross-Modal Interactions for Enhanced Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation<\/span><\/p>\n

Jian Ding, Bo Zhang, Dailin Li, Jian Wang, Hongfei Lin<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Write! Draw! Move!: Investigating the Effects of Positive and Negative Self-Reflection on Emotion through Self-Expression Modalities<\/span><\/p>\n

Golnaz Moharrer, Kavya Rajendran, Rowena Pinto, Andrea Kleinsmith<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Gesture and Behavior Generation<\/span><\/p>\n

Motion Diffusion Autoencoders: Enabling Attribute Manipulation in Human Motion Demonstrated on Karate Techniques<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Richardson, Felix Putze<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

DifussionCleft: Facial Anomaly Synthesis Guided by Text<\/span><\/p>\n

Karen Rosero, Lucas M Harrison, Alex A Kane, Rami R. Hallac, Carlos Busso<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Gesture and Behavior Recognition<\/span><\/p>\n

WatchHAR: Real-time On-device Human Activity Recognition System for Smartwatches<\/span><\/p>\n

Taeyoung Yeon, Vasco Xu, Henry Hoffman, Karan Ahuja<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Disentangling Perceptual Ambiguity in Multifunctional Nonverbal Behaviors in Conversations via Tensor Spectrum Decomposition<\/span><\/p>\n

Issa Tamura, Momoka Tajima, Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Predicting End-of-turn and Backchannel Based on Multimodal Voice Activity Prediction Model<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryo Ishii, Shin-ichiro Eitoku, Ryota Yokoyama, Junichi Sawase<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

PI-STGCNN: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Neural Network with Partial Interaction Optimization for Human Trajectory Prediction<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhuangzhuang Chen<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Time-channel Adaptive Fusion and Hierarchical Attention Mechanism for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition<\/span><\/p>\n

Longjie Huang, Jianhai Liu, Yong Gu, Kai Jiang, Haibo Li<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Leveraging Pre-Trained Transformers and Facial Embeddings for Multimodal Hirability Prediction in Job Interviews<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Fithian, Theodora Chaspari<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Health & Wellbeing<\/span><\/p>\n

Punctual or Continuous? Analyzing Depression Traces in Language and Paralanguage with Multiple Instance Learning<\/span><\/p>\n

Rawan Alsarrani, Anna Esposito, Alessandro Vinciarelli<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

VitaStress: A Multimodal Dataset for Stress Detection<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Schreiber, Simon Burbach, Beyza Cinar, Lennart Mackert, Maria Maleshkova<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

BiFuseNet: A Multimodal Network for Estimating Blood Alcohol Concentration via Bidirectional Hierarchical Fusion<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdullah Tariq, Martin Masek, Zulqarnain Gilani, Arooba Maqsood<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Investigating differences in Paramedic trainees\u2019 multimodal interaction during low and high physiological synchrony<\/span><\/p>\n

Vasundhara Joshi, Surely Akiri, Sanaz Taherzadeh, Gary B Williams, Andrea Kleinsmith<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A multimodal Framework for exploring behavioural cues for automatic Stress Detection<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Valerio, Marwa Mahmoud<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

16:30-18:00\u00a0 Doctoral Consortium Poster Session<\/span><\/h4>\n

Modeling Social Dynamics from Multimodal Cues in Natural Conversations<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Hyekang Joo<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Developing Virtual Reality (VR) Simulations with Embedded User Analytics for Cognitive Rehabilitation in PTSD Veterans<\/span><\/p>\n

Ravi Varman Selvakumaran<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Enhancing Accessibility in Animation: A Context-Aware Audio Description System for Visually Impaired Children<\/span><\/p>\n

Md Fahad Bin Zamal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Designing Multimodal Nonverbal Communication Cues for Multirobot Supervision Through Event Detection and Policy Mapping<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard John Attfield<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Towards Context-sensitive Emotion Recognition<\/span><\/p>\n

Sayak Mukherjee<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Towards Intelligent Adaption in Cognitive Assistance Systems through Physiological Computing<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan Schneider<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Multimodal Conversational Events Estimation in Complex Social Scenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Litian Li<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Decoding Social Interaction to Understand Traumatic Behaviors in Social Dynamics<\/span><\/p>\n

Pritesh Nalinbhai Contractor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Towards Seamless Interaction: Neuroadaptive Virtual Reality Interfaces for Target Selection<\/span><\/p>\n

Jalynn Blu Nicoly, Shayla Sharmin\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Multimodal Analysis of Caregiving Interactions in Simulation-Based Training<\/span><\/p>\n

Behdokht Kiafar, Ka Hei Carrie Lau<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Differentiating Frustration from Cognitive Workload in a Dual-task System<\/span><\/p>\n

Heting Wang<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

18:00 -19:00\u00a0 Welcome Reception<\/span><\/h4>\n

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09:00-10:00 Keynote\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Gelareh Mohammadi<\/span><\/p>\n

Multimodal AI for Transforming Industries and Empowering Social Interaction<\/span><\/h4>\n

Fang Chen\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

10:00-10:30 Break<\/span><\/h4>\n

10:30-12:00 Oral Session 2: Health & Wellbeing<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Maria Maleshkova<\/span><\/p>\n

10:30 – 10:48<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaluating the Efficacy of Pulse Transit Time between Palm and Forehead in Blood Pressure Estimation<\/span><\/p>\n

Chu Chu Qiu, Jing Wei Chin, Tsz Tai Chan, Kwan Long Wong, Richard Hau Yue So<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

10:48 – 11:06<\/span><\/p>\n

From Lab to Wrist: Bridging Metabolic Monitoring and Consumer Wearables for Heart Rate and Oxygen Consumption Modeling<\/span><\/p>\n

Barak Gahtan, Sanketh Vedula, Gil Samuelly Leichtag, Einat Kodesh, Alex Bronstein<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

11:06 – 11:24 (Best paper award nominee)<\/span><\/p>\n

SpikEy: Preventing Drink Spiking using Wearables<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhigang Yin, Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Agustin Zuniga, Mohan Liyanage, Petteri Nurmi, Huber Flores<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

11:24 – 11:42<\/span><\/p>\n

From Speech and PPG to EDA: Stress Detection Based on Cross-Modal Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models<\/span><\/p>\n

Alia Ahmed Al Dossary, Mathieu Chollet, Alessandro Vinciarelli<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

11:42 – 12:00\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Psychological and Neurophysiological Indicators of Stress and Relaxation in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments: A Multimodal Approach<\/span><\/p>\n

Ankit Arvind Prasad, Shashank Laxmikant Bidwai, Ashutosh Jitendra Zawar, Diven Ashwani Ahuja, Apostolos Kalatzis, Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

12:00-13:30 Lunch<\/span><\/h4>\n

13:30-15:00 Oral Session 3: Interaction Design<\/span><\/h4>\n

Session Chair: Silvia Rossi<\/span><\/p>\n

13:30 – 13:48 (Best paper award nominee)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring the effects of force feedback on VR Keyboards with varying visual designs<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhenxing Li, Jari Kangas, Ahmed Farooq, Roope Raisamo<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

13:48 – 14:06 (Best paper award nominee)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Analysis of Interaction Techniques in Touchscreen-Based Educational Gaming<\/span><\/p>\n

Shayla Sharmin, Elham Bakhshipour, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Behdokht Kiafar, Pinar Kullu, Nancy Getchell, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

14:06 – 14:24<\/span><\/p>\n

AirSpartOne: One-Handed Distal Pointing for Large Displays on Mobile Devices and in Midair<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Birlouez, Yosra Rekik, Laurent Grisoni<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

14:24 – 14:42<\/span><\/p>\n

StoryDiffusion: How to Support UX Storyboarding With Generative-AI<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhaohui Liang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Kevin Ma, Zhao Liu, Xipei Ren, Kosa Goucher-Lambert, Can Liu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

14:42 – 15:00<\/span><\/p>\n

A Scenario-Based Design Pack for Exploring Multimodal Human\u2013GenAI Relations<\/span><\/p>\n

Josh Andres, Chris Danta, Andrea Bianchi, Sahar Farzanfar, Gloria Milena Fernandez-Nieto, Alexa Becker, Tara Capel, Frances Liddell, Shelby Hagemann, Ned Cooper, Sungyeon Hong, Li Lin, Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Anna Brynskov, Hubert Dariusz Zaj\u0192\u00d6c, Zhuying Li, Tianyi Zhang, Arngeir Berge<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

15:00-15:30 Break<\/span><\/h4>\n

15:30-16:30 Grand Challenge Session<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n