This track addresses the cognitive and psychological impacts of AI adoption with specific emphasis on personality traits, affective processes, and ethical dimensions of human–AI interaction. It examines how AI-based systems influence emotional regulation, empathy, moral judgment, and value-oriented decision-making, particularly when systems exhibit adaptive, affective, or socially responsive behaviours. The track considers
affective agents not merely as interface elements, but as participants in socio-cognitive processes that may shape trust, reliance, self-perception, and interpersonal dynamics. Attention is given to how individual differences in personality, emotional sensitivity, and cognitive style mediate responses to AI-driven interaction.
Ethical considerations are treated as embedded properties of interaction design and system behaviour, rather than as external constraints. Contributions are expected to clarify mechanisms by which emotion-driven cues, perceived intentionality, and adaptive responses affect human agency, responsibility, and moral accountability.
The objective is to advance scientifically grounded understanding of how cognitive, affective, and ethical factors co-evolve in AI-augmented environments.
Subtopics for contributions include, but are not limited to:
Emotion-aware intelligent systems
Emotion recognition, modeling, and synthesis
Multimodal affective signal processing
Emotion-aware human–computer interaction
Affective user interfaces and adaptive systems
Affective agents, chatbots, and large language models
Emotion-driven decision making and behavior modeling
Emotional well-being in HCI
Empathy, personality, and individual differences in interaction
Affective computing for health, education, and well-being
Ethical, fairness, and privacy aspects in emotion-aware AI
Cross-cultural and context-dependent emotion interpretation
Affective feedback in social robots and embodied agents
Physiological and neuro-adaptive sensing for affect detection
Datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics for affective systems
Affective personalization and long-term emotional adaptation
These are only suggestions; we welcome papers discussing other issues related to the topic.