Program
Friday, October 9, 2026 · 08:30–12:45 · Room TBA · All times local (UTC+X)
Long papers: 12 min talk + 3 min Q&A · Short papers: 7 min talk + 3 min Q&A
| Time | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Opening | Welcome, workshop overview, and presentation guidelines |
| 08:40 | Invited Talk | Prof. Kazuhiro Otsuka — Nonverbal Functional Spectrum Analysis and Beyond: Exploring Complex Group Dynamics Through Diverse Multimodal Functional Cues |
| 09:25 | Long Paper | Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Continuous Group Emotion Recognition in Multi-party Dialogues WSCS_1007 |
| 09:40 | Long Paper | Empathic Coalescence Analysis of Group Dynamics in Small-Group Consensus-Building Discussions WSCS_1008 |
| 09:55 | Transition | Announcements and schedule buffer |
| 10:00 | ☕ Coffee Break | Conference-provided refreshments and pastries (30 min) |
| 10:30 | Short Paper | Analyzing Speaker-Role Representations in LLMs for Group Discussions WSCS_1013 |
| 10:40 | Short Paper | Beyond Call and Response: Modelling Reciprocal Coordination in Human–AI Vocal Ensembles WSCS_1015 |
| 10:50 | Invited Talk | Prof. Carlos Busso — Title TBA |
| 11:35 | Long Paper | Pseudo-Label Augmentation for Affect Sensing in Small Collaborative Groups WSCS_1003 |
| 11:50 | Long Paper | Backchannel-Aware Transcription for Multiparty Conversation: ASR Omissions, Acoustic Recovery, and Cross-Corpus Transfer WSCS_1012 |
| 12:05 | Long Paper | Acoustic and Linguistic Analysis of Objective and Subjective Team Functioning Outcomes WSCS_1009 |
| 12:20 | Long Paper | Adaptive Human–AI Collaboration: A Review of Multimodal Context Modeling, Uncertainty-Aware Intervention, and Longitudinal Co-Adaptation WSCS_1011 |
| 12:35 | Closing | Summary, future directions, announcements, and acknowledgements |