Report on the 2013 Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference (ACII 2013)

Under the auspices of the Humaine Association (now called the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing, AAAC), the ACII conference series has become an important international forum for research on affective human-machine interaction and intelligent affective systems. Affect is a phenomenon of substantial importance in most if not all of human activities. This ACII conference therefore strived to emphasize the humanistic side of affective computing by promoting research at the crossroads between engineering and human sciences, including biological, social, and cultural aspects of human life. This has been exemplified by conference topics as varied as computerized psychological emotional modeling; art and cinema studies; gaming; learning; depression, stress, and anxiety management; robots, avatars, and virtual worlds; social media analysis; pattern recognition, classification, and data mining; real-time and embedded affective systems; and others. All have in common affect and emotions, with an emphasis on a computational view of emotion.