How diverse is the ACII community? Analysing gender, geographical and business diversity of affective computing research

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• dc.contributor.author Hupont, Isabelle
• dc.contributor.author Tolan, Songül
• dc.contributor.author Freire, Ana
• dc.contributor.author Porcaro, Lorenzo
• dc.contributor.author Estevez, Sara
• dc.contributor.author Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-16T07:07:43Z
• dc.date.available 2023-02-16T07:07:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Comunicació presentada a 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), celebrat del 28 de setembre a l'1 d'octubre de 2021 de manera virtual.
• dc.description.abstract ACII is the premier international forum for presenting the latest research on affective computing. In this work, we monitor, quantify and reflect on the diversity in ACII conference across time by computing a set of indexes. We measure diversity in terms of gender, geographic location and academia vs research centres vs industry, and consider three different actors: authors, keynote speakers and organizers. Results raise awareness on the limited diversity in the field, in all studied facets, and compared to other AI conferences. While gender diversity is relatively high, equality is far from being reached. The community is dominated by European, Asian and North American researchers, leading the rest of continents under-represented. There is also a strong absence of companies and research centres focusing on applied research and products. This study fosters discussion in the community on the need for diversity and related challenges in terms of minimizing potential biases of the developed systems to the represented groups. We intend our paper to contribute with a first analysis to consider as a monitoring tool when implementing diversity initiatives. The data collected for this study are publicly released through the European divinAI initiative.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work is partially supported by the European Commission under the TROMPA project (H2020 770376) and the HUMAINT project of the Joint Research Centre.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Hupont I, Tolan S, Freire A, Porcaro L, Estevez S, Gómez E. How diverse is the ACII community? Analysing gender, geographical and business diversity of affective computing research. In: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII); 2021 Sep 28-Oct 1; Nara, Japan. [Piscataway]: IEEE; 2021. [8 p.]. DOI: 10.1109/ACII52823.2021.9597426
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACII52823.2021.9597426
• dc.identifier.issn 2156-8103
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55798
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• dc.relation.ispartof 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII); 2021 Sep 28-Oct 1; Nara, Japan. [Piscataway]: IEEE; 2021. [8 p.].
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/770376
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• dc.subject.keyword Affective Computing
• dc.subject.keyword Artificial Intelligence
• dc.subject.keyword diversity indicators
• dc.subject.keyword gender studies
• dc.title How diverse is the ACII community? Analysing gender, geographical and business diversity of affective computing research
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