Call for Papers

 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology

 Wearable movement and physiology sensors offer lightweight,
 non-invasive, and ecologically valid means to monitor human activity,
 affective state, and social behavior. With the rise of commercially
 deployed devices and new wearable foundation models, opportunities
 for scalable human behavior analysis continue to grow. However,
 challenges such as personalized modeling, on-device integration, or
 multimodal fusion prevail, limiting in-the-wild deployment of
 wearable devices.

The 1st Workshop on Behavioral and Emotion Analysis through wearable
Technology (BEAT) aims to foster collaboration between researchers
from various backgrounds (ML, HCI, biomedical engineering) around the
topic of wearable devices for human behavioral analysis. The workshop
will be held in Kyoto as part of the 20th IEEE International
Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2026), taking
place on May 25–29, 2026.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Machine Learning and computational models for movement and physiological wearables
    Resource efficient and lightweight models
    Multimodal fusion and synchronization strategies
    Methods for irregularly sampled or missing data
    Individual differences, personalization, and context-awareness
    Ethical and privacy-preserving AI in wearable systems
    Novel wearables and applications
    Experimental methods for validation of wearable systems
    Lab-controlled experiments and In-the-wild deployment
    Datasets and Benchmarks
    Responsible data management and user consent
    Applications in Affective Computing / Mobile Health / Action Recognition / Social Interaction / HRI




Submission Details:
(1) Main Track (Original Research): 4 up to 8-pages work
(2) Non-Archival Track (Published Work): 1-page summary
Important Dates:
Main track:

    Paper registration deadline: March 30, 2026
    Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2026
    Notification to authors: April 15, 2026
    Camera-ready paper deadline: April 20, 2026


Non-archival track:

    Summary submission deadline: April 3, 2026
    Notification to authors: April 15, 2026


For more details, please visit our website: https://beat-workshop.github.io/
For further questions, contact us via beat-workshop@googlegroups.com
General Chairs: Louis Simon, Arianna de Vecchi, Cristina Palmero, Felix Dollack, Ting Dang, Mohamed Chetouani (modificato) 
beat-workshop.github.io
Behavior and Emotion Analysis through wearable Technology (BEAT)
Workshop at IEEE International Conference on 
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2026, Kyoto, Japan