The 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction was held in Tokyo. I was one of the mentors for the doctoral consortium this year. We also held our 2nd Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction ASSP4MI@ICMI2016, organized by Dirk Heylen, Mohamed Chetouani, Toyoaki Nishida, and myself. More about our workshop can be found here http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~truongkp/icmi2016-assp4mi/