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/The 1st International Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in
Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2012)/:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae/2012/ will be held at the 50th
Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics
(http://www.acl2012.org/), on July 8th - 14th, 2012, in Jeju, Republic
of Korea.
Important Date:
Submission Deadline: *March, 25th*
Notification of Acceptance: *April, 15th*
Camera-ready deadline: *May, 18th*
Workshop date: *July, 12th*
SMIAE 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.
The submission deadline is *March 25*, 2011 (Check the website-Important
Dates for notification to authors and camera ready deadlines).
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 here and should be submitted
through the START system.
Suggested *Major Areas *or Tracks are the following:
- Speech-enabled systems in assisted living environments
- Speech in interaction with gesture and other modalities in assistive
environments
- Speech and multimodality in assistive robotics
- Control of smart devices through speech and multimodal approaches
- Speech/Text-to Speech software in Web applications designed for the
elderly
- Speech and multimodal interaction in e-Government and e-Health in
assistive environments
- Communication in assistive environments (e.g. Peer-to-Peer)
- Talking agents in assistive environments
All Submitted papers/abstracts 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.
SMIAE 2012 is sponsored by the the ACL Special Interest Group on Speech
and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT):
http://sigslpat.csee.ogi.edu/**
*Invited Speaker*: Dr. Mikio Nagano
*Programme Committee*:
Jan Alexandersson (DFKI Saarbrücken)
John Bateman (University of Bremen)
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl (DFKI Saarbrücken)
Alexandre Denis (Loria-CNRS)
Nina Dethlefs (University of Bremen)
Eleni Efthimiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing / ATHENA RC)
Evita Foteinea (Institute for Language and Speech Processing / ATHENA RC)
Konstantina Garoufi (University of Potsdam)
Kalliroi Georgila (University of Southern California)
Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology)
Florian Kretzschmar (Telekom Innovation Labs / Technische Universität
Berlin)
Susan Kemper (University of Kansas)
Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Oliver Lemon (Heriot-Watt University)
Ilias Maglogiannis (University of Central Greece)
Patrick Oliver (University of Newcastle)
Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University)
Rubén San Segundo Hernández (Technical University of Madrid)
Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University)
Hui Shi (University of Bremen)
Kristina Striegnitz (Union College)
Thora Tenbrink (University of Bremen)
Mariët Theune (University of Twente)
Pat Tun (Brandeis University Memory & Cognition Lab)
Maria Wolters (University of Edinburgh)
Wolfgang Zagler (Vienna University of Technology)
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
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SMIAE 2012 organising committee,
Dimitra Anastasiou
Desislava Zhekova
Cui Jian
Robert Ross
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