December 16, 2011
We maked the end of a very eventful and exciting semester with a little get-together at the lab. 
Here is a picture of almost all involved in the various projects and activities in the lab in Fall 2011.

October 9 - 12, 2011
Arvid Kappas provided a key note address at the 4th bi-annual International Conference of the HUMAINE Association on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011), held in Memphis, Tennessee.

September 14 - 18, 2011
Two members of our lab attended the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Boston, MA, USA. Dennis Küster presented a poster on "Bilateral plantar electrodermal activity elicited by contributing to online discussion forums: Do males and females recover asymmetrically?" (Küster, Kappas, Theunis, & Tsankova), and Arvid Kappas presented a poster titled "Cyberemotions: Subjective and physiological responses elicited by contributing to online discussion forums" (Kappas, Küster, Theunis, & Tsankova). This was the 25th SPR conference for Arvid Kappas, who serves also as a member of the program committee for the meeting.

Arvid and Dennis presenting the posters.

August 10 - 11, 2011
The Cyberemotions members of our lab participated with two posters in the 7th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie which took place at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. The poster titles are "Measuring cyberemotions: How do bodily responses relate to the digital world?" (Küster, Tsankova, Theunis, & Kappas), and "Avatars in a "nonymous" vs. anonymous online setting" (Vujović, Tsankova, Kappas, & Küster).

August 1, 2011
Arvid Kappas gave a talk titled "About Face(s)" at Kyoto University. More information about the talk, hosted by Prof. Toyoaki Nishida, can be found here.

July 26 - 29, 2011
Arvid Kappas chaired a symposium on "Cyberemotions: Emotions in Cyberspace – Models and Empirical Approaches" at the International Society for Research on Emotions Conference in Kyoto, Japan. He also presented a talk titled "Reading or writing Internet contents in non-interactive settings triggers emotions: Changes in subjective experience, expression, and physiological activation" (Kappas, Küster, Theunis, & Tsankova).
Eva Krumhuber also attended the conference and gave a talk titled "Motion and emotion: What dynamic patterns reveal about emotion prototypes" (Krumhuber, Scherer, & Kappas) in a Symposium on "Advances in the study of facial expression of emotion".

June 6 - 8, 2011
Arvid Kappas and Dennis Küster attended a workshop of the CyberEmotions consortium at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland.

May 26 - 30, 2011
61st Annual International Communication Association Conference - Boston, MA
Arvid Kappas chaired a session on the topic "Getting to the Heart of the Digital: Automatic Analysis of Affect in Online Communication" where he also gave a talk titled "How Does the Digital World Link with the Heart? Of Human Emotions and Cyberemotions".

January 31 - February 4, 2011
Aleksandra Swiderska attended an eCUTE work meeting in Augsburg, Germany.

January 25, 2011
Arvid Kappas gave a talk titled "Much Ado about Nothing: Are Emotions Really Important?" at the OFAI in Vienna, Austria. Announcement and abstract here.

January 20 - 21, 2011
Workshop of the CyberEmotions consortium at the Jozef Stefan Institute's Department of Theoretical Physics in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Elena and Mathias presenting the recent activities of the Jacobs University team. Photo by Janusz Debski.

November 1 - 14, 2010
We were very happy to host a two-week research visit by Michael Philipp (University of Queensland, Australia) - lots of interesting discussions and new ideas!

Michael and Arvid looking at some data.

October 15, 2010
Marion G. Müller and Arvid Kappas will give a talk on the topic "Emotion, visuals, communication: Myths and truths, promises and pitfalls" at the ECREA Conference in Hamburg, Germany.