18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference 2005
( FLAIRS-2005 )
May 16-18, 2005, Adam's Mark Hotel, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

Recently, researchers in neurosciences and psychology have found that emotions are widely related to cognition, they exert influences in various behavioral and cognitive processes, such as attention, long-term memorizing, decision-making. Moreover, positive affects are fundamental in cognitive organization and thought processes; they also play an important role to improve creativity and flexibility in problem solving. Reciprocally, negative affects can block thought processes; people who are anxious have a reduced memory capacity and a deficit in inductive reasoning. E-learning environments require to consider all factors that can improve and facilitate learning.

More recently, the notion of emotional intelligence has attracted increasing attention due to its capabilities to improve people’s performance. Although several important contributions were made to date in terms of identifying the nature and the role of learners' affect in the success of their cognitive progress, we have still a number of questions to address :

- What is emotional intelligence ? - How does tutors’ emotional intelligence contribute to students’ learning? - What is the impact of emotional intelligence on individual and social learning? - What affective states of the learner are of primary importance? - How do the different emotional aspects interact with one another, and with related states such as motivation and engagement? - Do different learning domains affect the kind of emotions that students may experience or are some emotions universally experienced by students across domains? - What pedagogical actions are called for, given a particular affective state (or a set of states) of a student?

We invite papers which present either finished work, work in progress or theoretical discussion concerned with any aspect of understanding and using affective and emotional intelligence. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics:

- Meaning of an Emotional Intelligent System - Behavior of Emotional Intelligent System - Role of Emotional Intelligence in computer systems - Implementation of Emotional Intelligence in computer systems - Impact of Emotional Intelligence on the users - Emotional Intelligent Agent - Emotional Intelligence in Tutoring Systems - Different applications of emotions in computer science. - Measure of emotions - Emotions and personality