About us

This workshop is dedicated to discussing computational methods for sensing and recognition of nonverbal cues and internal states in the wild to realize cooperative intelligence between humans and intelligent systems. We gather researchers from different expertise, yet having the common goal, motivation, and resolve to explore and tackle this delicate issue considering the practicality of industrial applications. We are calling for papers to discuss novel methods to realize human-robot cooperative intelligence by sensing and understanding humans’ behavior, internal states, and to generate empathetic interactions.

Important Dates

Wed, Jul 1, 2026

Submission deadline

Call For Paper

Human internal state inference, e.g., cognitive, emotional, intention models.

Recognition of nonverbal cues, e.g., gaze and attention, body language, para-language.

Multi-modal sensing fusion for scene perception.

Nonverbal behavior generation for robots/agents, e.g., gaze salience, gesture.

Synchronization of nonverbal and verbal behavior

Learning algorithms, e.g., cross-embodiment and cross-context learning, imitation learning.

Generative and adversarial algorithms to enhance human-robot interaction, e.g., LLMs, diffusion models, VLMs.

Empathetic interaction between humans and intelligent systems.

Robust sensing of facial and body key points.

Social interaction dynamics modeling, e.g., harmony level, engagements.

Personalization of intelligent systems from nonverbal cues and trust evaluation.

Applications of cooperative intelligence in the wild.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We invite authors to submit unpublished papers (2-4 pages excluding references) to our workshop, to be presented at a workshop session upon acceptance. Submissions will undergo a peer-review process by the workshop's program committee and accepted papers will be invited to present their works at the workshop.

Committee

Organizing Committees

Jouh Yeong Chew

point of contact

Honda Research Institute Japan

Andreas Bulling

University of Stuttgart

Daisuke Kurabayashi

Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Eiichi Yoshida

Tokyo University of Science

Iolanda Leite

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sarah Gillet