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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span>HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">6-7 October, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The purpose of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industrialists concerned with all aspects of human-computer conversation and the associated research<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>issues of emotion, relationships, companionship, embodiment, ECAs, memory, evaluation etc. that persistent, personalised computational agents will need solutions for if they are to exist, as they will, in the reasonably near future. The earlier workshops in this series (see the first at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="http://icon.shef.ac.uk/meetings/bellagio/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#0000DD;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://icon.shef.ac.uk/meetings/bellagio/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">) were highly successful at getting industry groups to display their interests and prototypes as did university and independent researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Since 2000, there has been a great upsurge in research funding, and another aim of the meeting will be to bring together members of currently active research consortia in the EU and US, such as CALLAS, CALO, COSY, AMIDA, INDIGO, SOPRANO and others; the workshop is being held under the auspices of the EU 6FP IP COMPANIONS (www. companions-project.org)(2006-2010). Bellagio and the Villa Serbelloni are among the finest spots in the world for thought and reflection: see </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.villaserbelloni.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none">http://www.villaserbelloni.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Abstracts due:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1 July 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Authors notified: 31 July 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Final papers due: 5 September 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Abstracts should use a simple template (modelled on two-column AISB format) at (Word version):<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><a href="http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Bellagio08_template.doc"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Bellagio08_template.doc</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Abstracts should not exceed two pages. Final papers should not exceed five pages.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">GENERAL CHAIR<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Yorick Wilks (U. Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">James Allen (U. West Florida)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Ellizabeth Andre (U. Augsburg)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">David Benyon (Napier U.)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Christopher Brewster (U. Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Emmet Coin (ejTalk, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Bjorn Gamback (SICS, Stockholm)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Louise Guthrie (U. Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Aravind Joshi (U. Pennsylvania)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Anton Nijholt (U. Twente)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Catherine Pelachaud (U. Paris)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Steve Pulman (U. Oxford)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Akira Shimazu (JAIST, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Tomek Strzalkowski (U. Albany)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Markku Turunen (U. Tampere)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Mats Wiren (U. Stockholm)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">INVITED TALKS (not all yet confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">James Allen (U. West Florida)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Aude Billard (EPFL, Geneva)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Tim Paek (Microsoft Research, Redmond)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">REGISTRATION<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Information and an online payment method will be posted on the project site <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.companions-project.org/events/200810_bellagio.cfm"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.companions-project.org/events/200810_bellagio.cfm</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">and an email circular will tell you registration is open. At that time we shall also post travel and hotel information etc. Those wishing to ensure that they get rooms in the Villa Serbelloni itself should book now at the website above, mentioning the workshop and asking for the special price. The registration fee (under 400 euro and 200 euro for full-time students) will include a welcome reception in the Villa as well as a special lunch on the terrace over Lake Como. Registration will be limited to 100 participants.</span><!--EndFragment--> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>