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4th International Workshop on
Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
(MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA.
In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope:
One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining
them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and
system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may
be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far
from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical
solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate
smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication
has resulted in many insights.
Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging
especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain
area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main
speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible
co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to
occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such
as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the
counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order
for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment.
The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the
analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that
can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be
regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents,
empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More
general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located
in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition,
we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in
extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine
interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and
interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal,
real-time systems.
We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such
human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time
conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also
within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to):
a) Multimodal Environment Analyses
- Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural
interactions
- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions
- Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation
and environment
b) Multimodal User Analyses
- Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state
- Dialogue management using multimodal output
- Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective
- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions
- Novel strategies of human-machine interactions
c) Applications, Tools, and Systems
- Novel application domains and embodied interaction
- Prototype development and uptake of technology
- User studies with (partial) functional systems
- Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018
Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018
Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and
short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted
papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers:
Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany
Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland
Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck
FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems
Building 03, Room 322
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Phone: +49 391 67 50061
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