30.1732, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Phonetics/Ireland

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Subject: 30.1732, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Phonetics/Ireland

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:29:37
From: Leigh Clark [leigh.clark at ucd.ie]
Subject: 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

 
Full Title: 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces 
Short Title: CUI 2019 

Date: 22-Aug-2019 - 23-Aug-2019
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Leigh Clark
Meeting Email: info at cui2019.com
Web Site: https://www.cui2019.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Phonetics 

Call Deadline: 24-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

CUI 2019 is the 1st annual International Conference on Conversational User
Interfaces. It aims to be the premier interdisciplinary conference for
researchers and practitioners across the world to discuss the latest in
conversational interface technology. This inaugural event will take place in
Dublin, Ireland on 22nd-23rd August 2019 and will be hosted in the heart of
the city centre. The conference holds ACM SIGCHI In Co-Operation status.

There has been an increasing interest in language based interactions with
technology. Through the commercial success of intelligent personal assistant
devices such as Alexa and Google Home, to the growth of the use of chatbots in
commercial settings, the number of natural language and conversation based
interactions is growing. Although there is growth in this area, with much
technical effort being applied and promoted in these areas (e.g. Interspeech,
SIGDIAL), there is comparatively little promotion of and exploration of
important human-computer interaction and design based issues. This event,
growing from successful workshops at both ACM CHI and ACM Mobile HCI, looks to
begin to develop an independent yet collaborative community with specific
interest in theory based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech
and text based conversational user interfaces. The event looks to bring
together the ISCA and ACM SIGCHI communities to publish and promote insight
and debate in this interesting and important discipline within language
interfaces.

Authors are encouraged to submit to our three tracks: Showcase, Full Papers
and Provocation Papers. See https://www.cui2019.com for more information.


2nd Call for Papers:

Provocation Papers (indexed in ACM DL)
May 24th@ 23:59 GMT

CUI 2019 is looking provocation papers: short papers that explore
controversial, risk taking or nascent ideas that have the potential to spark
debate and discussion at the conference. Papers are welcome from a broad range
of disciplines including: human-computer interaction, computer science,
engineering, speech technology, linguistics, psychology, cognitive sciences
and sociology. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- voice user experience
- speech interfaces
- speech interface theory development
- conversational interaction through technology
- text-based conversational interfaces
- chatbots
- speech synthesis
- speech recognition
- dialogue management
- conversational interface design insights
- methods for conversational user interface development and evaluation
- multimodal interaction involving speech, text or other language based
interfaces

Submission format and instructions:

https://www.cui2019.com/provocationpapers

2 page papers (excluding references) using the current or interim ACM
Templates. Submissions must be anonymised.

Provocation papers will be high quality original pieces of research relevant
to the topics above. Each paper will undergo jury review and will be archived
in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions must be made using the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cui2019

Important Dates:

May 24th - Submission deadline

June 21st - Notification to authors

Organising Committee:

Benjamin R Cowan (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Leigh Clark (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Julie Berndsen (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Martin Porcheron (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Jens Edlund (KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden)
Kristiina Jokinen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science 
and Technology, Japan)
Matthew Aylett (CereProc Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Eva Szekely (KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden)
Philip Doyle (Voysis Ltd., Dublin, Ireland)
Justin Edwards (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)




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