31.1964, Calls: Comp Ling/Netherlands or Online

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:37:22
From: Minha Lee [M.Lee at tue.nl]
Subject: Challenges of Agent Identity in Multimodal Communication

 
Full Title: Challenges of Agent Identity in Multimodal Communication 

Date: 25-Oct-2020 - 25-Oct-2020
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Minha Lee
Meeting Email: M.Lee at tue.nl
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

Conversational agents that interact with users in everyday settings are
becoming more commonplace, yet their identity has not yet been a key point of
investigation. With this workshop, we open up discussion on the relationship
between multimodality and identity of digital agents. Who “ lives” in which
devices or bodies and how may agents’ use of multimodal cues add to or
conflict with their identity? Multi-disciplinary teams of researchers are
welcomed to explore opportunities and challenges of an identity of an
artificial agent that may transfer between multiple devices, the perception
therein of having a single identity across various contexts and “bodies”, and
the possibility of multi-identity that may come with multimodality.

Invited speakers:
 - Iolanda Leite, Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
 - Catherine Pelachaud, Professor and Director of Research in the laboratory
ISIR, Sorbonne University

More information is on https://sites.google.com/view/agentidentity/


Call for Papers: 

As talking interfaces are at a nascent stage of popularization and
development, we look forward to submissions on how an identity or identities
can be constructed with:
1) multiple modalities,
2) single modality across different devices, and
3) multiple modalities across different devices (or bodies) with diverse sets
of modalities.

Which modalities signal what identity or identities, and why? Papers can be of
exploratory, provocative, or theoretical nature, and we also welcome empirical
works.

Paper categories:
 - Extended abstracts with bios (2 to 3 pages)
 - Short papers (4 to 5 pages)
 - Long papers (6 to 8 pages)

ACM templates are linked on our site.

Papers will be published as a part of this year's conference proceeding for
ICMI if accepted.

Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caimc2020#

Reviews: All submissions will be reviewed at by 2 reviewers.

Dates:
Submission deadline: 21 August 2020
Notification: 18 September 2020
Camera ready: 30 September 2020
Workshop: 25 October 2020

Location:
Utrecht, the Netherlands with ICMI 2020 or a virtual session (the situation is
being monitored).

Financial support:
In case the workshop can take place in person, we offer financial assistance
to one author of each accepted paper to present. This is contingent on ICMI
2020's plans and the number of accepted submissions.

Program Committee:
Asbjørn Følstad, Senior Researcher at SINTEF
Gijs Huisman, Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied
Science’s Digital Society School
Jose David Águas Lopes, Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University
Michal Luria, PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Hannah Pelikan, PhD Student at Linköping University
Ronald Cumbal, PhD Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sean Andrist, Researcher at Microsoft Research
Joakim Gustafson, Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Aske Mottelson, PostDoc at University of Copenhagen
Sam Thellman, PhD Student at Linköping University

Organizing committee:
Minha Lee, PhD Student at Eindhoven University of Technology
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, PhD Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Ilaria Torre, PostDoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Andre Pereira, Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dirk Heylen, Professor at University of Twente




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