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Main Conference Day 1 – Tuesday, 6 October 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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10:00-11:00 Poster Session #1: Affective Computing, Health & Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Affect-Aware Game Personalization with Reinforcement Learning: How to Improve Players’ Engagement, Performance, and Emotions<\/span>
\nMahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, Tiziano Santilli, Mina Alipour<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Screening Method for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on a Dual-Stream, Multi-Scale, Cross-Modal Attention Mechanism<\/span>
\nHaoran Sun, Bang Li, Xiaoqing Jiang, Liu Chen, Shengduo Hu, Chenyang Liang, Jianwei Gu, Kaiyun Li, Zhenxiang Chen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal Biomarkers of Dysarthria: Severity-Conditioned Contrastive Alignment of Speech, Text, and Facial Asymmetry<\/span>
\nKaren Rosero, Chi-Chun Lee, Rami R. Hallac, Carlos Busso<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Self-Supervised Dual-Stream Temporal Learning for Neonatal Pain Estimation<\/span>
\nMuhammad Suhaib Shahid, Michel Valstar, Don Sharkey, Joy Egede<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Feedback to Neural Dynamics: Network-Based Modeling of EEG in Interactive Tasks<\/span>
\nBehdokht Kiafar, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multi-Scale Spatiotemporal EEG and Self-Supervised Audio Fusion: A Mixture-of-Experts Approach to Continuous Affect<\/span>
\nAli Amini, Sarmad Maqsood, Irfan Abbas, Muhammad Abdullah Sarwar, Rytis Maskeli\u016bnas, Robertas Dama\u0161evi\u010dius<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Facial Expressions to Emotional Health: Deploying Affective Computing in Call Centers<\/span>
\nLesly Nzeusseu Kouamou, Pierrich Plusquellec<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Correcting in the Moment: Evaluating Real-Time AI Postural Feedback for Cellists<\/span>
\nPaolo Wang, Kexin Sha, Kunzhu Xie, Michael Zhang, Shrinand Perumal, Ekaterina Tszyao, Jackson Shields, Luke Choi, Sivamurugan Velmurugan, Preston Mo, Daniel Chindris, Wangyue Xue, Mohammad Rahman, Ming Yin, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen, Ka-wai Yu, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

FAIR_XAI: Improving Multimodal Foundation Model Fairness via Explainability for Wellbeing Assessment<\/span>
\nSophie Chiang, Tom Brennan, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Jiaee Cheong, Hatice Gunes<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Breathing Signal Prediction from Speech: Toward Reproducible and Comparable Models<\/span>
\nFrancisca Pessanha, Glenn de Wildt, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre, Heysem Kaya, Almila Akdag<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Speech Signals Complement LLMs for Predicting Interpersonal Attraction in Speed Dating<\/span>
\nYuriko Kikuchi, Takato Hayashi, Ryusei Kimura, Naoya Inoue, Ryo Ishii, Shogo Okada<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Signals to Connection: Exploring Physiological Markers of Human\u2013Nature Connectedness<\/span>
\nOlivia Brunet, Romain Grandchamp, Beno\u00eet Fernandez, Gladys Barragan-Jason, Axel Carlier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Light-ED: Lightweight Multimodal Emotion Detection using Enhanced EfficientNet<\/span>
\nWamika Jha, Mea Wang, Usman Alim, Zoe Kirsman<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Unmasking Suppressed Emotion: A Multi-Agent Approach to Affective Dissonance<\/span>
\nChenghong Lin, Tochukwu Eze, Dawei Xie, Khalil J Anderson, Bookyung Shin, Marcelo Worsley<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal Behavioral Typicality as a Training-Free Screening Signal for Dementia<\/span>
\nLeticia Pinto-Alva, Gale Lucas, Maja J Matari\u0107, Jesse Thomason<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Who, Where, How Matters: Evaluating Emotion Recognition under Context Shifts<\/span>
\nSayak Mukherjee, Tom Viering, Bernd Dudzik<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Unified Tokenization Framework for Pain Recognition using Heterogeneous 3D Modalities<\/span>
\nStefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Valentina Becchetti, Muhammad Umar Khan, Alessandro Giuseppi, Raul Fernandez Rojas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Autism Screening via Pose Kinematics and Shallow Graph Embedding for Small-Sample Dyadic Imitative Interaction<\/span>
\nBang Li, Zhenxiang Chen, Haoran Sun, Xiaoqing Jiang, Jianwei Gu, Chenyang Liang, Shengduo Hu, Kaiyun Li<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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11:00-12:30 Oral Session #1: Conversational AI, Speech & Avatars<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00<\/strong> HAAS: Holistic Attention-free Animation from Speech using Mamba<\/span>
\nLaxmi Narayen Nagarajan Venkatesan, Harsh Vardhan Singh, Vansh Sinha, Sai Madhavan G, Subhajeet Lahiri, Rahulraj B R, Vaishnavi Josyula, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Raj Tumuluri, Magnus Revang, Ajai Devanathan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:15<\/strong> TANDE: Disentangling Verbal and Nonverbal Backchannels in Emotional AI-Avatar Conversations With Young Adults<\/span>
\nAnn-Kareen Gedeus, Jack Good, Nadine Wagener, Angelique Taylor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:30<\/strong> Unleashing Chain-of-Thought Style Reasoning for Text-to-Speech Systems<\/span>
\nZiyue Jiang, Zhou Zhao<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:45<\/strong> Conversational Facial Dynamics as Behavioral Identity Signals: From Naturalistic Conversations to Avatar-Mediated Communication<\/span>
\nMasoumeh Chapariniya, Pierre Vuillecard, Jean-Marc Odobez, Volker Dellwo, Teodora Vukovic<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:00<\/strong> AFA: Identity-Aware Memory for Preventing Persona Confusion in Multi-User Dialogue<\/span>
\nMohammad Al-Ratrout, Pavan Uttej Ravva, Shayla Sharmin, Aditya Raikwar, Ju Young Shin, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:15<\/strong> Towards a Voice Design Tool to Support Game Masters of Tabletop Role-Playing Games<\/span>
\nLaura Kanschat, Johanna Kuch, Daksitha Senel Withanage Don, Niklas Heimerl, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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14:00-15:00 Special Session: Multimodal Sensing and Interventions for Mental Well-being<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00<\/strong> Multimodal Anxiety Detection with Adaptive Hyperbolic Few-Shot Learning<\/span>
\nAditya Sneh, Nilesh Kumar Sahu, Anushka Sanjay Shelke, Arya Adyasha, Haroon R. Lone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14:15<\/strong> Modeling Affective Distress from Video: A Modality-Aware Multi-Branch Learning Approach<\/span>
\nOm Govind Jha, Nilesh Kumar Sahu, Haroon R. Lone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14:30<\/strong> Multimodal features for multi-perspective assessment of working alliance in therapist-patient psychotherapy<\/span>
\nRivka Vollebregt, Lennard Ren\u00e9 Bornemann, Sanne J.E. Bruijniks, Albert Ali Salah<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14:45<\/strong> \u201cWhy does the computer say I am depressed?\u201d Towards a better understanding of concepts in automatic depression detection<\/span>
\nSytse Backx, Stan Meyberg, Gizem Sogancioglu, Heysem Kaya<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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15:00-16:30 Poster Session #2: Social Interaction, Dialogue & Human\u2013AI Interaction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Takes Two to Know One: An Approach for Personality Prediction from Dyadic Conversation Based on Text<\/span>
\nZijie (Jack) Zhou, Siyuan Chen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Real-time Multimodal Addressee Detection in Multi-party Dialogue<\/span>
\nDivesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Taiga Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I Don\u2019t Always Do What I Am Told: The Case for Task Incongruence-Aware Systems for Technology-Supported Reflection on Social Interactions<\/span>
\nChenxu Hao, Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic, Bernd Dudzik, Hayley Hung<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Role of Language Understanding in Speech-Based Multimodal Automatic Personality Perception<\/span>
\nNisreen Alshubaily, Emily O’Hara, Tanaya Guha, Alessandro Vinciarelli<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Binaural Speech and Distribution Learning for Predicting Auditory Distance Perception in Audio Augmented Reality<\/span>
\nSahar Altalhi, Tanaya Guha, Alessandro Vinciarelli<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal Rapport Estimation in Real-World HRI<\/span>
\nAkihiro Sakuramoto, Takato Hayashi, Ryo Miyoshi, Yuki Okafuji, Shogo Okada<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Automated Behavioural Analysis in Parent-Infant Interactions using Multimodal-Large-Language Models<\/span>
\nDaksitha Senel Withanage Don, Tobias Hallmen, Mitho M\u00fcller, Lea Kaubisch, Linda St\u00fcrmlinger, Yaren G\u00fcnay, Anna-Lena Zietlow, Beate Ditzen, Johannes C. Ehrenthal, Cristina Luna-Jim\u00e9nez, Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck, Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

HARMONI: Multimodal Personalization of Multi-User Human-Robot Interactions with LLMs<\/span>
\nJeanne Malecot, Hamed Rahimi, Jeanne Cattoni, Marie Samson, Mouad Abrini, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Maribel Pino, Mohamed Chetouani<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal Behavioural Indicators of Social Performance in Collaborative Problem Solving<\/span>
\nJennifer Hamet Bagnou, Amine Benamara, C\u00e9line Clavel, Jean-Claude Martin, Elise Prigent<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“Great! The Next Step Is…”: In Pursuit of Proactive Assistance with Multimodal Foundation Models<\/span>
\nSean Andrist, Dan Bohus, Maia Stiber, Yuwei Bao, Tim Schoonbeek, Eric Horvitz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Beyond Rhythm and Prosody: Inter-Utterance Silence Predicts Drone Movement Duration in Spontaneous Vocal Guidance<\/span>
\nAllan Henry, Solange Rossato, Christian Graff, Sylvain Huet, Jose-Ernesto Gomez-Balderas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Speech to Interaction: Analyzing Multimodal Systems in Cocktail-Party Scenarios<\/span>
\nThai Binh Nguyen, Zhaolin Li, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Using Machine Mental Imagery for Representing Common Ground in Situated Dialogue<\/span>
\nBiswesh Mohapatra, Giovanni Duca, Laurent Romary, Justine Cassell<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Impact of Adaptive Feedback in Multimodal Human-Agent Interaction<\/span>
\nShaid Hasan, Sujan Sarker, Tariq Iqbal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Big5-HCD: A Human-Computer Dialogue Benchmark with Personality Annotations via Semi-Supervised Adaptation<\/span>
\nWeidong Zhang, Haifeng Guo, Weiming Wang, Haoran Xie, Fu Lee Wang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Clustering Co-Speech Gestures Using Morphological Representations<\/span>
\nSimbarashe Nyatsanga, Huanjie Dong, Ikhsanul Habibie, Christian Theobalt, Michael Neff<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Do Visual Features Improve Other-Initiated Repair Detection? A Dyadic Multimodal Approach<\/span>
\nHa Anh Ngo, Nicolas Rollet, Catherine Pelachaud, Chloe Clavel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Joint Attention Modeling in Naturalistic Interactions with Social Gaze and Proximity Cues<\/span>
\nMiranda Dickerman, Michael Villamizar, Sabine Stoll, Jean-Marc Odobez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Facial Expressions and Gaze Behavior Patterns During a Collaborative Board Game<\/span>
\nAmine Benamara, C\u00e9line Clavel, Brian Ravenet, Nicolas Sabouret, Julien Saunier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Speaker Diarization in Static and Egocentric Videos via Speech-Face Alignment<\/span>
\nZeyang Zhang, Xavier Yin, Zhaobo Zheng, Kumar Akash, Teruhisa Misu, Carlos Busso<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Deception Detection Across Diverse Interaction Contexts: A Progressive Transfer Learning Approach<\/span>
\nAbdullah Alzahrani, Eve Gittins, Muneeb Ahmad<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Validation of a Multi-level Self-Report Rapport Scale and its Impact on Multimodal Modeling of Small Group Interaction<\/span>
\nJustine Reverdy, Oussama Silem, Justine Cassell<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Real-time Generation of Listener Nodding via Prediction of Kinematic Parameters for Avatar Dialogue Systems<\/span>
\nKazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Taiga Mori, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Defining \u201cNeutral\u201d Agents: A Critical Review and Future Guidelines<\/span>
\nEmma Jane Pretty, Weichen Li, Anna-Leena Macey, Nannan Xi, Juho Hamari<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Code-to-Speech: An Exploratory Study of AI Text-to-Speech for Source Code Readability<\/span>
\nMarco Cardia, Letizia Angileri, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

CoRead: Using Implicit Behavioural Signals for Mixed-Initiative AI Support in Collaborative Academic Reading<\/span>
\nSakil Sarker, Yasaman A.Basti, Heidar Davoudi, Ali Neshati<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

NVFCorpus: A Corpus for Analyzing Multimodal and Multifunctional Nonverbal Behavior in Multiparty Conversations<\/span>
\nKazuhiro Otsuka, Takumi Nishihira, Yuya Nishimura, Issa Tamura<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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16:30-18:00 Oral Session #2: Emotion, Affect & Well-being<\/strong><\/p>\n

16:30<\/strong> Smiling Regulates Emotion During Traumatic Recollection<\/span>
\nMarcus Ma, Emily Zhou, Leonard Ludwig, Julia H\u00f6rath, Christina Winkler, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Gabor Mihaly Toth, Alina Bothe, Shrikanth Narayanan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

16:45<\/strong> Hierarchical Quantized Cross-modal Masked Autoencoders for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition<\/span>
\nZeyang Zhang, Carlos Busso<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:00<\/strong> MindBeat: A Multimodal Interface for Stress Recovery through Rhythmic Fidgeting<\/span>
\nWenjie Xu, Ziang Xu, Rui Zhang, Qinjie Wang, Fangtian Ying<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:15<\/strong> Beyond Surveys: Predicting Student Well-being from Open-ended Video Responses using LLMs<\/span>
\nThu Bui, Minjun Choi, Shifa Somji, Hillary Merzdorf, Nan Kong, Louis Tay, Sooyeon Jeong<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:30<\/strong> Interoception-Inspired Emotion Estimation via Intrinsic Diffuseness-Guided Learning<\/span>
\nHaifeng Zhang, Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela, Yukie Nagai<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:45<\/strong> EmotiStage: Designing an Emotion-Driven Performance System with Multi-modal Generative AI to Support Emotional Awareness<\/span>
\nZiying Wang, Yihong Lin, Xianglin Zhao, Yirui Huang, Ziya Zhou, Wei Xue, Wanling Cai, Yucheng Jin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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18:00-18:30 Challenge Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Main Conference Day 2 – Wednesday, 7 October 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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10:00-11:00 Demo, DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Demonstrations<\/strong><\/p>\n

AUGI: Multimodal Gestural and Tactile Control for Acoustic Wind and Brass Instruments<\/span>
\nSusan E Green-Mateu, Jackson Tallamy, Kyle Hutchins<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

BuddyBack: A Multimodal Smart Posture Correction System<\/span>
\nFederico Raponi, Marco Realacci, Lorenzo Spataro, Danilo Avola, Maurizio Mancini, Emanuele Panizzi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ConceptLens: Interactive Concept Bottlenecks for Black-Box Models<\/span>
\nHasan Md Tusfiqur Alam, Abdulrahman Mohamed Selim, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kop\u00e1csi, Daniel Sonntag<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Embodying Luca Giordano: A RAG-Grounded Context-Aware Robot for Cultural Heritage Storytelling<\/span>
\nMario Barbato, Marco Grazioso, Martina Di Bratto, Azzurra Mancini, Valentina Russo, Silvia Rossi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Emotional Echoes: A Spatialized VR Gallery for Revisiting and Reinterpreting Emotional Memory<\/span>
\nYao Liu, Marina Carulli, Monica Bordegoni<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

FLIDIS: An Experimental Infrastructure for Dual-Task Research in Continuous Control and Multimodal Interaction<\/span>
\nCharles O Njoku, James Blundell<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

MULTIDATA: An Interactive Web Platform for Speech-Gesture Data Extraction and Visualization<\/span>
\nRa\u00fal S\u00e1nchez, Daniel Alcaraz Carri\u00f3n, Irene Bolumar Mart\u00ednez, Armine Garibyan, Yassine Iabdounane, Mark Turner, Peter Uhrig, Crist\u00f3bal Pag\u00e1n C\u00e1novas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Vibrotactile Feedback for Accessible Audio Production: Demonstrating HAPCI and HFAM<\/span>
\nJames Hurley, Jon Drummond, Bert Bongers<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Windborne: Fostering Nature Connection and Playfulness through Multimodal Interaction in Healthcare Settings<\/span>
\nBorui Wang, Keith Evan Green<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Doctoral Consortium Posters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Multimodal Modeling of Microsurgery Training Assessment<\/span>
\nAyobami Oyewole<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Towards Memory-Aware Adaptive Agents<\/span>
\nDeborah van Sinttruije<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Buzz, Bid, Body: Multimodal Practices of Distributed Recognition<\/span>
\nPipob Puthipiroj<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Generic modeling of Human-Machine Interaction<\/span>
\nlykong un<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal detection and classification of humor in human-human and human-machine interactions<\/span>
\nSofia Callejas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Structured Representations For Human-Robot Interaction with Non-Expert Users<\/span>
\nValerie K. Chen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What Matters Over Time: Temporal Properties of Non-Verbal Signals for Intent Recognition in Human\u2013Robot Interaction<\/span>
\nEunyoung Hwang, Alessandra Rossi, Silvia Rossi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Designing Multimodal Conversational AI for Longitudinal Well-Being Monitoring<\/span>
\nThu Bui<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Socially Interactive Agent for Group Debate Mediation<\/span>
\nNahuel G\u00f3mez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

FAU-Preserving Video Anonymization for Privacy-Aware Reproducible Research<\/span>
\nSophin Chheng<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal Subjective Intention Modeling in Social Interactions<\/span>
\nArthur Mercier<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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11:00-12:30 Oral Session #3: Neurophysiological & Wearable Multimodal Sensing<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00<\/strong> Multimodal Learner-State Analytics: Cross-Modal Insights from Motor-expressions and EEG for Instructor-Facing Visualization Platform<\/span>
\nQi Song, Gaoyuan Zhang, Chengchen Lyu, Xurong Xie, Naiming Yao, Hui Chen, Feng Tian<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:15<\/strong> \u03bcDPad: A Large-Scale Multimodal PPG and IMU Dataset for Wrist-Worn Microgesture Recognition<\/span>
\nLars Hauptmann, Dominik Hollidt, Xintong Liu, Manuel Meier, Christian Holz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:30<\/strong> MoDAl: Self-Supervised Neural Modality Discovery via Decorrelation for Speech Neuroprosthesis<\/span>
\nYuanhao Chen, Peter Chin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:45<\/strong> SENSE: Efficient EEG-to-Text via Privacy-Preserving Semantic Retrieval<\/span>
\nAkshaj Murhekar, Christina Liu, Abhijit Mishra, Shounak Roychowdhury, Jacek Gwizdka<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:00<\/strong> Investigating Foundation Models, Disentanglement and Latent Alignment for Subject-Independent EEG Learning<\/span>
\nLia Schmid, Jacopo Burger, Alessandro D’Amelio, Raffaella Lanzarotti<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:15<\/strong> MIMIC: A Real-Time Multimodal Framework to Provide Fine-Grained Motion Corrections Remotely<\/span>
\nBlain Judkins, Jennifer Yentes, Edgar Javier Rojas-Mu\u00f1oz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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14:00-15:00 Blue Sky Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00<\/strong> Human Hardware in an Agentic World: Jia\u2019s Journey as a Biological Actuator and the Call for Sovereign Interaction Design<\/span>
\nLik-Hang Lee<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14:20<\/strong> The Person Multimodal AI Cannot Finish<\/span>
\nMohammad Rashedul Hasan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

14:40<\/strong> The Recognition-Consequence Gap: How Gesture Recognition Misses Human Action<\/span>
\nStephanie A Scopelitis, Dane DeSutter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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15:00-16:30 Poster Session #3: Multimodal Learning, Vision-Language Models & Responsible AI<\/strong><\/p>\n

GRoFA: Noise-Gated Adapters for Jointly Fair and Robust Face Embeddings<\/span>
\nAmu Suemoto, Yutaka Arakawa, Tsunenori Mine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

LEGO Co-builder: Exploring Fine-Grained Vision-Language Modeling for Multimodal Assembly Assistants<\/span>
\nHaochen Huang, Yue Su, Xin Sun, Moonisa Ahsan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Irene Viola, Zhaochun Ren, Chuang Yu, Aneta Lisowska, Artem Belopolsky, Koen Hindriks, Pablo Cesar, Junxiao Wang, Jiahuan Pei<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

How YouTube Frames ChatGPT Use in Education: An Epistemic Network Analysis with Supporting Multimodal Metadata<\/span>
\nShayla Sharmin, Mohammad Al-Ratrout, Mohammad Fahim Abrar, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Bridging the Spatial Blind Spot in Pathology Foundation Models for Tumor Localization<\/span>
\nGuoshuai Xu, Kai Zhang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

STACK: 3D Spatial Task Analysis in Collaborative Construction Keyframes<\/span>
\nChangsoo Jung, Sheikh Abdul Mannan, Jack Fitzgerald, Ethan Seefried, Videep Venkatesha, Sifatul Anindho, Nathaniel Blanchard<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

NewsSegCap: Efficient Dense Video Captioning for TV News<\/span>
\nAntoine Brimont, Titus Zaharia, Ruxandra Tapu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

TNG-CLIP:Training-Time Negation Data Generation for Negation Awareness of CLIP<\/span>
\nYuliang Cai, Jesse Thomason, Mohammad Rostami<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When Cross-Modal Attention Fails under Channel Degradation: Diagnosing Dominant Interaction Structure for Reliable Multimodal Interaction<\/span>
\nBin Liu, Zhaoxiang Xiao, Zhengpeng Liu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Distilling the Noise: Value-Aware Contrastive Hypergraph Learning for Robust Multimodal Rumor Detection<\/span>
\nHeng Zhang, Weiyu Zhang, Chaoqun Zheng, Rui Wang, Jiasheng Si, Wenpeng Lu, Deyu Zhou<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Self-Distillation as a Structure-Dependent Mechanism in Multimodal Dialogue via Multi-Context Modeling<\/span>
\nRyo Ishii, Chihiro Takayama, Jiro Nagao, Toshiki Onishi, Yukiko Nakano, Junichi Sawase<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Human-Centered Metrics for Evaluating Usability in Artificial Intelligence Generated Human Object Interactions<\/span>
\nShengdi Xiao, Yuto Asano, Jingjing Li, Yoichi Ochiai<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Towards Gaze-Informed AI Disclosure Interfaces: Eye-Tracking Attentional and Cognitive Load While Reading AI-Assisted News<\/span>
\nPooja Prajod, Hannes Cools, Thomas R\u00f6ggla, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

SIGMA: Statistical Memory Head for Robust Class-Incremental Vision\u2013Language Learning with CLIP<\/span>
\nDinh-Dat Nguyen, Duc-Duy Mai, Hung Xuan Ho Mr, Quynh-Trang Pham Thi, Thanh-Hai Dang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

M3CA: Multi-modal and Multi-view Fusion based on Multi-layer Cross Attention for Isolated Sign Language Recognition<\/span>
\nJinyang Feng, Zhong Guan, Yongli Hu, Jiahai Yang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

An Explainable Neurosymbolic Multimodal Deepfake Detection with A Comparative Study of Cross-Dataset Generalization<\/span>
\nMd Shafiqul Baten Sumon, Fatma Najar<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Bytes to Semantics: LLM-Agent-Driven Commit Message Generation for Non-Code Assets<\/span>
\nLiran Wang, Zhoujun Li<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

HuGDAT: Guiding Transformer Attention with Human Vision<\/span>
\nAhmad Waseem, Pietro Ruiu, Andrea Lagorio, Seth Nixon, Massimo Tistarelli<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Local Optical Flow for Eye Movement Event Detection in Head-Mounted Setups<\/span>
\nAbdulrahman Mohamed Selim, Omair Shahzad Bhatti, Lukas Wilde, Khue Minh Pham, Michael Barz, Daniel Sonntag<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Towards Responsible AI in Low-Resource Languages: Evaluating LLM Responses with a Culturally Aware Sinhala Dataset<\/span>
\nLiyanaarachchige Dona Rashmi Nirasha Gunawardana, Ayantha Randika, Dushani Perera, Kasun Karunanayaka<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ADMC: Attention-based Diffusion model for Missing modalities Completion<\/span>
\nYuhan Li, Wei Zhang, Juan Chen, Jiangjia Yan, Peng Xiangli, En Zhu, Liangze Yin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

TraceNote: Instructor Cursor Dynamics as Spatiotemporal Signals for Importance-Aware Lecture Note Generation<\/span>
\nYao Tong, Su Wang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ECHO: Explainable Co-editing with Human-in-the-loop Operations for Presentation Slide Refinement<\/span>
\nYu Fu, Yongqi Kang, Yujia Zhou, Yong Zhao<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

EST-inspired computational approaches to event boundary detection<\/span>
\nAmirarsalan Serajoddin Mirghaed, Gualtiero Volpe, Giovanna Varni<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pre-processing Techniques for Multimodal Affective Computing: Implications for Data Quality and Multimodal Fusion<\/span>
\nC\u00e9lio Carvalho, Jos\u00e9 Torres, Rui Silva Moreira<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

GroundingGaze: An Interactive Pipeline for Automatic Gaze Annotation<\/span>
\nMounika Kanakanti, Ferdinand Otmar Paar F.P., Asli Ozyurek, Chinmaya Mishra<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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16:30-18:00 Oral Session #4: Engagement, Behavior & Human State Modeling<\/strong><\/p>\n

16:30<\/strong> Interpretable Multimodal Engagement Prediction with Graph-based Mixture-of-Experts<\/span>
\nMonisha Singh, Abhinav Dhall<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

16:45<\/strong> From Detection to Mechanism Analysis: Interpretable Multimodal Concept Interactions in Gesture Pragmatics<\/span>
\nJinqian Zhang, Sixia Li, Candy Olivia Mawalim, Shogo Okada<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:00<\/strong> Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Behavioral Expressions of Social Engagement<\/span>
\nNaga Venkata Sai Raviteja Chappa, Lisa Yankowitz, Gokul M Nair, Evangelos Sariyanidi, Casey J. Zampella, Kathleen Campbell, Whitney Guthrie, John D. Herrington, Robert T. Schultz, Birkan Tunc<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:15<\/strong> Human-as-a-Sensor: Inferring Individual Engagement from Teammates Alone via Latent Group State Modeling<\/span>
\nZhaobo Zheng, Navid Salami Pargoo, Kumar Akash, Teruhisa Misu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:30<\/strong> How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks<\/span>
\nTahiya Chowdhury<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:45<\/strong> SQUAD: A Unified Framework for 3D Dyadic Scene Understanding with Applications to Visual Focus of Attention and Object Use<\/span>
\nBerfu Karaca, Niilo V. Valtakari, Albert Ali Salah, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Sonja M. C. de Zwarte, Ronald Poppe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Main Conference Day 3 – Thursday, 8 October 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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10:00-11:00 Poster Session #4: XR, Embodied Interaction & Multimodal Interfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quantifying 3D Pointing: Characterizing What Happens During Pointing Selection in Virtual Reality<\/span>
\nJunhan Kong, Jacqui Fashimpaur, Michael J Proulx, Hemant Bhaskar Surale, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Amy Karlson<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Did I Just Cheer in a Concert Hall?: Enhancing Remote Participation with Congruent Self-Voice Feedback<\/span>
\nHikari Kato, Tomoaki Konno, Toshiharu Horiuchi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

XRPoseSync: A Synchronized Multimodal Dataset for EdgeXR Pose Prediction<\/span>
\nZiyu Zhong, Jens Nirme, Hector A Caltenco, Stefan Lindgren, Bj\u00f6rn Landfeldt<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

TriSelect: Distance Adaptive Multimodal Object Selection in Virtual Reality Using Eye Gaze, Hand Gesture, and Voice<\/span>
\nJai Sachdeva, Prashant Rawat<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Partner Representation Shapes Coordination Tradeoffs in Shared XR<\/span>
\nEhtisham Ul Haq, Robert S. Allison, Laurie M Wilcox<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hands-VRee: Towards Hands-Free Gaming in VR via Concurrent Input for Locomotion, Viewport Control, and Pointing<\/span>
\nAdrian Javier Leon Valencia, Pedro Tavares, In\u00eas Alves, Ian Oakley, Augusto Esteves<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

IntentVLM: Open-Vocabulary Intention Recognition through Forward\u2013Inverse Modeling with Video-Language Models<\/span>
\nHamed Rahimi, Cl\u00e9mence Grislain, Adrien Jacquet Cr\u00e9tides, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Disrupted Harmony: How Visual\u2013Audio Incongruence Influences Creativity in Collage Making<\/span>
\nLeyan Wu, Yalong Luo, Andi Wan, Yucheng Jin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Han-Vibe: Culturally-Situated Multimodal Interaction for AI-Mediated Live Music Performance<\/span>
\nZhengyang Ma<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Audiovisual Material Perception in Virtual Reality<\/span>
\nHarshitha Koppisetty, Laurie M Wilcox, Robert S. Allison<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Multimodal User Simulation with Cross-Modal Grounding for Virtual Museum Interaction<\/span>
\nShreya Sanghamitra, Shihan Wang, Shenghui Wang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What you know, How you act: Transactional VR Authentication<\/span>
\nNuman Zafar, Shafique A Chaudhry<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pose-to-Command: A Personalized Embodied Control Layer for Ordinary Games<\/span>
\nTung Khau, Matthias Rueger, Gerrit Meixner<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Exploring Thermal Color Cues to Evoke Thermal Illusions in Virtual Object and Hand-to-Hand Interactions in VR<\/span>
\nArtem Sultanov, Alexander Raake, Stephanie Arevalo Arboleda<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Inferring Openness to Experience from Behavioral Signals in a Virtual Reality Art Gallery<\/span>
\nAaditya Vardhan Narain, Raman Saxena, Y. Raghu Reddy<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Causal Temporal Padding for Low-Latency Real-Time Gesture Generation<\/span>
\nRyo Ishii, Shinichiro Eitoku, Jiro Nagao, Junichi Sawase<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Auditory Feedback as a Communication Modality: Modeling Perceived Semantic Expression of UX Sounds<\/span>
\nAnnika Frommholz, Steffen Lepa, Stefan Weinzierl, Johannes Helberger<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

AdaHome: An Adaptive Smart Home Assistant using Local Small Language Models<\/span>
\nEu Jin Lim, Zhaoxing Li, Sebastian Stein<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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11:00-12:30 Oral Session #5: Multimodal Reasoning, Explainability & Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00<\/strong> DatasetOS: An Agentic Framework For Multimodal Dataset Construction<\/span>
\nBashayer Alsreidi, Ghaleb Aldoboni, Lobna Nassar, Fakhreddine Karray<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:15<\/strong> Explanation Needs Emerge Before Explicit Requests in Human-Robot Interaction<\/span>
\nDimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Joakim Gustafson, Julie Shah<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:30<\/strong> S-AODP++: Structure-Aware AOI-Guided Scanpath Attention for AI-Generated Image Identification<\/span>
\nJingming Wang, Renwei Meng, Yunjie Si<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

11:45<\/strong> SPICE: Synergy and Partial Information Based Curriculum Evolution<\/span>
\nAnkush Pratap Singh, Houwei Cao, Yong Liu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:00<\/strong> Scene-Conditioned Capability Mounting as a Visible and Executable Boundary for Situated LLM Agents<\/span>
\nSiyu Jiang, Yuxuan Cheng, Jiayi Wang, Sanshuai Cui<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

12:15<\/strong> MapQA: A Map-Question-Answering Benchmark for Visual Language Model Reasoning<\/span>
\nChristian Arnold, Andrew Alini, Abdulrahman Alabdulkareem, Jonathan Wang, Pieter Feenstra, Conner Arnold, Jan Kenneth DeWitt, Natalie Christina Ritsema, Jung Hyun Yae, Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu, Brian Cheung<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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15:00-16:30 LBR<\/strong><\/p>\n

How Local AI Framing Shapes User Experience and Perceived Data Security with an Embodied AI Psychotherapist in VR<\/span>
\nPaula Friedrich, Lukas Polifke, David Obremski, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Clinical Decision Support System Prototype for Multimodal Youth Mental Health Monitoring<\/span>
\nCarlo Mazzola, Helen Stocks, Ula Kolinska, Izidor Mlakar, Gwendolyn Mayer, Zouhair Haddi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Designing a Functional Social Robot for Blood Test Procedures in the Emergency Department: A Human-Centered Approach<\/span>
\nYuval Rubin Kopelman, Dikla Dahan Shriki, Zohar Fein, Mahmod Hamdan, Rony Ben Ami, Daniel Armoni, Andrey Grishko, Nevo Heimann Saadon, Hadas Erel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“Nobody Told me Farming is not Only Farming”: A Conversational AI Agent for Causal Loop Reasoning with Japan Farmers<\/span>
\nTomohide Mizuuchi, Eduardo Feteira, Liuru Nan, Mami Yoda, Wan-Jou She, Panote Siriaraya<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Structured Patterns of Dyadic Motion Coordination Predict Communicative Success<\/span>
\nAditya Mutharasu, Elayna Bowe, James Benjamin Falandays<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Benchmarking Prompt Extension and Image Generation Models for Automotive Instructional Imagery<\/span>
\nYuval Zak, Eli Tzirkel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

CEMAS – a Configurable Embodied Multi-Agent System<\/span>
\nDavid Obremski, Lukas Polifke, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Emerging Agency-Aware Interface Patterns in AI-in-the-Loop Platforms<\/span>
\nMassimo Bertolotti, Silvia Di Giulio, Genoveffa Tortora, Luigi Troiano<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

How Humans Evaluate Headline-Map Climate Change Misinformation with Multi-Agent (In)consistent Guidance?<\/span>
\nNianhua Liu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Aligning Gaze, Space, and Cognition: A Multimodal Triangulation Framework for Visitor Interactions in Cultural Heritage (An Expert vs. Non-Expert Comparative Study)<\/span>
\nZihe Wei, Yufei Liu, Dan Zhang, Xin Zhang, Miao Sun<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

How to Greet Humans: Designing Opening Encounters for Functional Robots with Naive Users<\/span>
\nTom Hitron, Nevo Heimann Saadon, Guy Doron, Thomas H. Weisswange, Hadas Erel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Implied Expressive Motions in Paintings: An Early Study on the Limits of Text-to-Motion Generation<\/span>
\nMohammadreza Mahmoudi, Nicola Corbellini, Cora Gasparotti, Nicola Ferrari, Antonio Camurri<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Do Emotional Cues Matter? Exploring Support Strategy Selection in LLM-Based Supportive Conversations<\/span>
\nWeiyi Tian, Safak Dogan, Jie Meng<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Beyond the Vibration Channel: A Signal-Level Benchmark for Dry-Sand Touch on Phones<\/span>
\nTakahiro Yamamoto, Toshiharu Igarashi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Continuous wrist kinematics carry lexical cues for temporal deixis<\/span>
\nRa\u00fal S\u00e1nchez S\u00e1nchez, Crist\u00f3bal Pag\u00e1n C\u00e1novas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Does Listening Matter? Backchanneling and Nodding in AI Clone<\/span>
\nKoji Inoue, Kazushi Kato, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shunichi Kasahara<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

An Exploratory Multimodal Analysis of Digital Handwriting and Spontaneous Speech Features to Distinguish Early Cognitive Impairment from Normal Aging<\/span>
\nMaria Santina Ler, Maria Sarno, Miriam Veneziano, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito, Antonio Perna<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

3D Gaze Ray Dynamics During Palpation-Centered Nursing Assessment of Edema<\/span>
\nMasato Fukuda, Mitsuhiro Goto, Koki Ebina, Aya Saitoh, Noriko Yagyuda, Shigekuni Kondo, Sayuri Sakai<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Modeling Participant Behavior Across Utterances and Silent Intervals for Engagement Estimation of Individuals with ASD<\/span>
\nHiyori Toda, Jie Zeng, Fumio Nihei, Chihiro Takayama, Ryo Ishii, Masatsugu Tsujii, Yukiko Nakano<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Multimodal Latent State-Space Framework Reveals Spontaneous Interpersonal Synchrony Dynamics<\/span>
\nPhD Yubraj Gupta, PhD Stefanie Suttkus, PhD Steffen Schulz, PhD Feliberto de la Cruz, PhD Maria Geisler, Dr Karl-Juergen Baer, PhD Andy Schumann<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Multilingual Speech-Driven Semantic Input Module for University Indoor Wayfinding<\/span>
\nG\u00f6khan Ceylan, Gabriella Trasciatti, Emanuele Panizzi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

How AI Experiences Art: Emergent Aesthetic Structure in a Self-Supervised Multimodal Embedding Space<\/span>
\nCorey DC Heath<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Low-Latency Turn-Taking via Context-Aware Preface Generation in a Real-World Dialogue Robot<\/span>
\nYuki Okafuji, Koji Inoue, Yoshiki Ohira<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Explainable AI Insights into Gender-Associated Facial and Upper-Body Patterns in Public Speaking: An Exploratory Study<\/span>
\nNesrine Fourati, Kamel Madi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Is Bad Handwriting Really Bad? Multimodal Human\u2013AI Interpretation of Illegible Handwriting in Palliative Care<\/span>
\nZhigang Ni, Lei Yang<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

DyadicTickTacking: Multimodal Co-Evolution of Joint Strategies and Turn-Taking in Expert-Novice Scaffolding<\/span>
\nAli KhaliliKandjani, Gabriele Romano, Nicola Corbellini, Gualtiero Volpe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When Coordination Signals Can Mislead: Conversational and Facial Markers of Transactive Functioning in Newly-Formed Virtual-Reality Teams<\/span>
\nTristan Lannuzel, Beatrice Biancardi, Mukesh Barange, St\u00e9phanie Buisine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Modular Open-Source Augmented Reality Drone Environment for Human\u2013Drone Interaction Research<\/span>
\nVilmer Malm, Hugo Raimer, Javier Jim\u00e9nez Ruescas, Fanta Camara, Mohammad Obaid<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A Reproducible Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow for Exploring Epistemic Dissonance<\/span>
\nRei Yuda<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Can Vision-Language Models Extract Relevant Multimodal Cues for Post-Inference Cue Integration? A Comparison of Affective Judgments on Adult and Child Interaction Data<\/span>
\nXiajie Zhang, Sharifa Alghowinem, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

CreaRobot – Improving creativity using a social robot<\/span>
\nSalvatore Maria Anzalone<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Towards a Multimodal Video-Based Approach for Editable Piano Score Transcription<\/span>
\nSilvia Di Giulio, Luigi Troiano, Genoveffa Tortora<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

SMILE: A Hybrid Memory-Driven Dialogue Manager for Social Companion Robots<\/span>
\nMariacarla Staffa, Salvatore Maria Anzalone, Lorenzo D’Errico<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

LLMs with a Heart: Using Contextual Heartbeat Haptics to Add Feeling to Text and Audio LLM Interactions<\/span>
\nPrithiv Premkumar, Shuyuan Liu, Ryan Clark, Ken Shibata, Christopher Vaughn Casarez, Bruce N. Walker<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Evaluating the Impact of Large Language Model Assistance on Human Attention Paradigm in Human\u2013Robot Collaboration<\/span>
\nTajbeed A. Chowdhury, Jose A. Trapero, Farah I. Corona-Strauss, Daniel J. Strauss<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Plots to Words: Model-Aware Multimodal Explanations as a Foundation for Accessible, Non-Visual Interaction<\/span>
\nNur Kele\u015fo\u011flu, \u0141ukasz Sobczak, Joanna Doma\u0144ska<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From Blind Edits to Verified Repair: Building Trustworthy User-Side LLM Agents for Web Accessibility<\/span>
\nLily Bundgaard Wanscher, Markus Heidemann Lorensen, Mohammed Ammad Shafiq, Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, Mina Alipour<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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16:30-18:00 Oral Session #6: Human\u2013AI Collaboration, Co-Creation & Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

16:30<\/strong> Ethical Guidelines and Stakeholder Perspectives on the Use of Conversational AI in Psychotherapy – A Scoping Review<\/span>
\nPaula Friedrich, David Obremski, Marc Erich Latoschik, Carolin Wienrich<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

16:45<\/strong> CHORUS: Designing Human\u2013AI Multi-Agent Collaboration for Professional Translators<\/span>
\nGeorge Xi Wang, Jiaqian Hu, Guande Wu, Jing Qian<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:00<\/strong> Framing the Formless: A Xing\u2013Qi\u2013Shen Framework for Culturally Aware Multimodal Human\u2013AI Co-Creation<\/span>
\nConggang Yu, Shudan Tan, Yuxing Zhang, Lin Yu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:15<\/strong> Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points: A Longitudinal Multimodal Study of Human-AI Interaction<\/span>
\nRyuichi Sumida, Mao Saeki, Masaki Eguchi, Sadahiro Yoshikawa, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Yoichi Matsuyama<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:30<\/strong> Context-Aware Multimodal AI System for Wildfire Decision Support<\/span>
\nShaurya Mathur, Shreyas Bellary Manjunath, Nitin Kulkarni, Alina Vereshchaka<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

17:45<\/strong> A Methodology to Compare Real and LLM-Simulated Multimodal Interactions: The Case of Gender Bias<\/span>
\nElodie Etienne, Magalie Ochs, Jean-Michel Loubes, Chlo\u00e9 Clavel<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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