The 6th Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The 6th Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
(GENEA) Workshop
October 27 or 28, 2025 (in person)
Held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2025, Dublin, Ireland
Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2025/workshop/

Paper submissions are now open for the 6th edition of the GENEA
Workshop, focusing on the generation of non-verbal behaviours such as
gesticulation, facial expressions, and gaze - a crucial component of
natural interaction with embodied agents, including virtual agents and
social robots.

Currently, behaviour generation is typically powered by rule-based
systems, data-driven approaches like generative AI, or hybrid
models. For evaluation, both objective and subjective methods are
used, though their application and validity are often debated. This
workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines
working on various aspects of non-verbal behaviour generation,
facilitating discussion on advancing both generation techniques and
evaluation methodologies.

 

Topics of Interest

We invite original contributions on topics including (but not limited to):

    Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements, including multimodal synthesis
    Audio-, music-, emotion-driven, or stylistic non-verbal behaviour synthesis
    Closed-loop / end-to-end non-verbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)
    Non-verbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions
    Use of LLMs/VLMs in the context of non-verbal behaviour synthesis
    New datasets, annotation methods, and analyses of existing datasets related to non-verbal behaviour
    Cross-cultural and multilingual influences on non-verbal behaviour generation
    Cognitive and affective models for non-verbal behaviour generation
    Social perception and attribution of synthesised non-verbal behaviour
    Ethical considerations and biases in non-verbal behaviour synthesis
    Subjective and objective evaluation methods for any of the above topics

 

* Submission Types

We welcome:

    Long papers (8 pages)
    Short papers (4 pages)

All submissions should follow the double-column ACM conference format
used by ACM Multimedia (https://acmmm2025.org/call-for-papers/). Pages
containing only references do not count toward the page limit. Papers
must be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview and formatted for
double-blind review. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop
and included in the companion proceedings. Submission site:
https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/GENEA.

 

*? Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth, AoE)

    Paper abstract deadline: 9 July 2025
    Full submission deadline: 11 July 2025
    Notification of acceptance: 01 August 2025
    Camera-ready deadline: 10 August 2025
    Poster submission deadline: 19 September 2025
    Notification of poster acceptance: 3 October 2025
    Workshop date: 27 or 28 October 2025

 

?Invited Speakers 

*      Catherine Pelachaud - CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

*      Asli Ozyurek - Radboud University, The Netherlands

 

* Organisers

    Taras Kucherenko – Electronic Arts (EA), Sweden
    Rajmund Nagy – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Alice Delbosc – Davi, The Humanizers, France
    Oya Celiktutan – King's College London, United Kingdom
    Youngwoo Yoon – ETRI, South Korea
    Gustav Eje Henter – KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Motorica AB, Sweden
    Laura Hensel – University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

 

For more information, visit our website, contact us at
genea-contact@googlegroups.com, or follow us:
* @geneaworkshop.bsky.social (BlueSky)
* @genea_workshop (X)
* LinkedIn Group

 

We look forward to your contributions!