Recognition of Human Affect: Uni- or multimodal recognition of affect from face, body, gesture, voice text, or physiology; affective face/body animation; expression and gesture recognition; sentiment analysis

Synthesis of Human Affect: Affective speech synthesis, modeling and animation,synthesis of auditory affect bursts, synthesis of multimodal affective behavior)

Affective Interfaces: Affective brain-computer interfaces, design of affective loop and affective dialog systems; mobile, tangible, haptic and virtual/augmented interfaces; affectively-smart environments; affectively proactive interfaces

Social and Behavioral Science Involving Affective Computing: Cognitive-affective models; models of moral decision-making; tools for social science research;computational models of emotion; psychological factors in affective computing (personality, culture); ethical issues; dyadic and group affective processes

Affective and Social Robotics and Virtual Agents: Emotions in robot cognition and action, embodied issues in emotion; affective virtual agents; memory, reasoning,and learning of affective systems; affective architectures for virtual & robotic systems

Affective Applications: Databases and tools; biometrics; medical; assistive;virtual reality; entertainment; education; ambient intelligence; industrial