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We invite you to submit a paper to <i>The 1st International
Conference on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive
Environments (SMIAE 2012)</i>: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae/2012/">http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae/2012/</a>
, to be held at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association of
Computational Linguistics (<a href="http://www.acl2012.org/">http://www.acl2012.org/</a>),
on July 8th - 14th, 2012, in Jeju, Republic of Korea. <br>
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This workshop will focus on issues, applications, and development
tools in the field of Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive
Environments (SMIAE). It will be concerned with all topics which fit
within the purview of speech and multimodal communication in
environments suitable for the elderly and people with age-related
physical or cognitive disabilities. Assistive environments are an
application area of the research field of Ambient Assisted Living
(AAL). This research field is supported through a European
technology and innovation funding programme, which promotes
intelligent assistant systems for a better, healthier, and safer
life in the preferred living environments through the use of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Human-computer and
human-robot interaction are key technological tools in the area of
Assistive Environments, and as such the workshop will particularly
aim to draw together speech and multimodal work in these areas.
Moreover, both theoretical and applied computational work regarding
multimodal interaction in assistive environments will be welcome at
this workshop. <br>
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The submissions deadline is <b>March 18th</b>, 2011 (Check the
website on Important Dates for notification to authors and camera
ready deadlines). <br>
Submissions for long or short papers are both accepted. Both kinds
of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted
papers will be included in the same proceedings. Submissions must
conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines <a
href="http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp">here</a> and should
be submitted through the <a
href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/smiae-2012/">START</a>
system. <br>
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Suggested <b>Major Areas or Tracks </b>are the following:<br>
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<li align="" "centre"="">Speech-enabled systems in assisted living
environments</li>
<li>Speech in interaction with gesture and other modalities in
assistive environments</li>
<li>Speech and multimodality in assistive robotics</li>
<li>Control of smart devices through speech and multimodal
approaches</li>
<li>Speech/Text-to Speech software in Web applications designed
for the elderly</li>
<li>Speech and multimodal interaction in e-Government and e-Health
in assistive environments</li>
<li>Communication in assistive environments (e.g. Peer-to-Peer)</li>
<li>Talking agents in assistive environments</li>
<li>Multimodal ICT used in elder care </li>
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All Submitted papers will go through double-blind reviewing
processes (at least three reviewers). Authors of accepted papers
who registered in the conference will have access to the
evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who
recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can
accordingly improve the final version of their papers.<br>
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For any questions, feedback or comments, feel free to contact the
organization committee at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:smiae2012@informatik.uni-bremen.de">smiae2012@informatik.uni-bremen.de</a>
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SMIAE 2012 organising committee,<br>
Dimitra Anastasiou,<br>
Desislava Zhekova<br>
Cui Jian<br>
Robert Ross </div>
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