DEADLINE EXTENSION: JULY 10th --- LaugHSMI Workshop @ ICMI 2026 - Laughter, Humour, and Smiles in Multimodal Interactions

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**New **Submission Deadline:July 1^st , 2026 (old) *July 10^th , 2026* **

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Dear Colleagues and Humor enthusiasts,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your latest research to the 
LaugHSMI (Laughter, Humour, Smiles in Multimodal Interactions)workshop, 
taking place October 9th, 2026, in conjunction with the ACM 
International Conference of Multimodal Interactions 
<https://icmi.acm.org/2026/>(ICMI).

LaugHSMI is a full-day workshop dedicated to advancing our understanding 
of the role of laughter, smiles, and humor in human-computer interaction 
and multimodal communication. These phenomena are fundamental to social 
bonding and conversation regulation, yet they remain computationally 
challenging to detect, interpret, and generate.

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from fields such as affective 
computing, NLP, computer vision, speech processing, human-computer 
interactions, and social signal processing.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:

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    Detection & Analysis:Automatic detection, acoustic/visual features,
    cross-cultural variations…

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    Understanding & Modeling:Computational models of humor, theory-based
    models, multimodal fusion, transformer-based approaches, ethical
    considerations...

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    Applications:Human-robot interaction, human-agent interaction,
    affective dialogue systems, social robotics…

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    Datasets & Evaluation:New corpora, annotation schemes...

Submission Guidelines:

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    Format:Double-blind review. Short papers (4 pages) and Full papers
    (8 pages), excluding references, following the ACM ICMI format.

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    Scope:We welcome full research papers, work-in-progress, position
    papers, and summaries of works published within the last 12 months.

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    Submission Platform:OpenReview
    <https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/ICMI/2026/Workshop/LaugHSMI>

Important Dates (AoE):

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    Submission Deadline:July 1^st , 2026 (old) *July 10^th , 2026*

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    Notification:July 22nd, 2026

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    Camera-ready:August 1st, 2026

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    Workshop:October 9th, 2026

For more details on the submission process and further information, 
please visit our website

https://laughsmi.github.io/ <https://laughsmi.github.io/>

or contact the organizing committee at [email protected]

We look forward to your contributions.

Best regards,

The LaugHSMI Organizing Committee

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