Character Computing: Computer Science meets Psychology

Now that most daily endeavors have migrated to computers and the Internet, having systems that adapt to users is a rising trend. By detecting and adapting to the user's traits and character instead of only the current states, there is great potential for novel user experiences. Character Computing which was introduced in [3] is now extended to the field of experimental psychology and psychological theorizing. Our approach integrates psychological and computational aspects of advanced sensing and processing technologies to detect the building blocks of a user's character traits and states which will allow computer systems to adapt to the user's behavior and his/her feelings more reliably and mimic them according to situational demands. Accordingly, in this workshop the different aspects of Character Computing are to be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective taking computational and psychological accounts into consideration in order to strengthen already investigated and potential applications as well as the theoretical foundation and challenges of Character Computing.