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Call for Papers
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CHI 2014 Workshop on
Designing Speech and Language Interactions
Toronto, Canada
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/dsli2014

Submission of position papers: 17 January 2014
Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2014
Workshop: 26 April 2014


Speech and natural language remain our most natural forms of interaction; yet the HCI community have been very timid about focusing their attention on designing and developing spoken language interaction techniques. While significant efforts are spent and progress made in speech recognition, synthesis, and natural language processing, there is now sufficient evidence that many real-life applications using speech technologies do not require 100% accuracy to be useful. This is particularly true if such systems are designed with complementary modalities that better support their users or enhance the systems' usability. Many recent commercial applications, especially in the mobile space, are already tapping the increased interest in and need for natural user interfaces by enabling speech interaction in their products.

This multidisciplinary, one-day workshop will bring together usability researchers, multimodal interaction designers, and general HCI practitioners and speech technologists to analyze the opportunities and directions to take in designing more natural interactions based on spoken language, and to look at how we can leverage recent advances in speech processing in order to gain widespread acceptance of speech and natural language interaction. Our goal is to create, through an interdisciplinary dialogue, momentum for increased research and collaboration in:

* Formally framing the challenges to the widespread adoption of speech and natural language interaction,

* Taking concrete steps toward developing a framework of user-centric design guidelines for speech- and language-based interactive systems, grounded in good usability practices, and

* Establishing directions to take and identifying further research opportunities in designing more natural interactions that make use of speech and natural language

We invite the submission of position papers demonstrating research, design, practice, or interest in, but not limited to, areas such as:

- Human factors and usability issues of imperfect speech- and language-based systems

- Meaningful evaluations of speech-based systems such as speech summarization, machine translation, synthetic speech, etc.

- Designing natural language-based mobile interfaces, such as embodied conversational agents or applications for facilitating access to large multimedia repositories (e.g. meetings, video archives).

- Improved accessibility through speech and language processing

- Multimodal interfaces that combine speech with other input modalities for increased usability and robustness

- Speech applications that go beyond lexical recognition in novel ways (e.g. signal analysis for health diagnostics, learning analytics)

- Speech as an interface tool for building usable applications for illiterate or semi-literate populations

- Pervasive, augmented reality, or mixed-reality immersive systems enhanced with audio interactions

Position papers should be no more than 4 pages long, in the ACM SIGCHI Archival format, and include a brief statement from the author(s) justifying the interest in the workshop's topic. Summaries of research already presented are welcome if they contribute to the multidisciplinary goals of the workshop (e.g. a speech processing research in clear need of HCI expertise). Submissions will be reviewed according to:

- Fit with the workshop topic

- Potential to contribute to the workshop goals

- A demonstrated track of research in the workshop area (HCI or speech processing, with an interest in both areas).

Please submit workshop papers to: [log in to unmask] . For all other enquiries about the workshop, please contact us at: [log in to unmask] .


We're looking forward to seeing you in Toronto!


The DSLI 2014 Organizing Committee:

Cosmin Munteanu
National Research Council Canada and
University of Toronto

Matt Jones
Swansea University

Steve Whittaker
University of California at Santa Cruz

Sharon Oviatt
Incaa Designs

Mathhew Aylett
CereProc Inc.

Gerald Penn
University of Toronto

Stephen Brewster
University of Glasgow

Nicolas d'Alessandro
University of Mons

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Dr. Cosmin Munteanu
Research Officer
    People-Centred Technologies | Agent de recherche, Technologies axées sur les gens
    National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Adjunct Professor
    Department of Computer Science | University of Toronto
46 Dineen Drive | 46, promenade Dineen | Fredericton, NB, E3B 9W4, Canada
Tel. | Tél. +1 (506) 444-0527 | Fax | Télécopieur +1 (506) 444-6114


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