Programme

Thursday, November 17:

Morning session    

09:00 – 09.30

Welcome - Opening Address 
Roddy Cowie and Oliviero Stock

09:30 – 10:45

Presentations:

Emotional and Non-Emotional Persuasion
Maria Miceli, Fiorella de Rosis, Isabella Poggi

Persuasive goals of Irony, Humour and Ridicule in a political trial
Isabella Poggi, Federica Cavicchio, Emanuela Magno Caldognetto

On Emotion-Rich Persuasion Artifices
Irene Mazzotta, Fiorella de Rosis

11:15 – 12:30

Presentations:

Design of a Pilot Experiment for the Evaluation of Automated Persuasion systems
Marco Guerini, Shlomo Hareli, Shay Tzafrir

Affective weight of lexicon as an element for creative language production
Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava, Alessandro Valitutti

Cantoche and WP8 Exemplar
Benoit Morel

Afternoon session

13:45 – 15:25

Presentations:

Backchannels and other Listener Actions in Argumentative Dialogue
Dirk Heylen

Backchannels Through Gaze as Indicators of Persuasive Success
Elisabetta Bevacqua, Maurizio Mancini, Christopher Peters, Catherine Pelachaud

More than just a pretty wording - Politeness in ECAs
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André

Proposing new ways of resolving online conflicts: an intelligent facilitation of forgiveness in CMC
Asimina Vasalou, Jeremy Pitt, Guillaume Piolle

15:45 – 17:00

Demos of initial prototypes:

Automated Persuasion: The Promoter prototype
Marco Guerini, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro

Atelier Bari
Fiorella de Rosis and colleagues

Automated Humor, initial steps
Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava, Alessandro Valitutti

17:00 – 18:00

Special session on ethical issues:

Ethical issues arising from workshop presentations confronted with Applied Ethics and Principlism

Paolo Petta and Sabine Döring

Friday, November 18:      

09:00 – 10:00

Invited Talk:

The Ontological Semantics of Emotion, Humor, and Persuasion
Victor Raskin (Purdue University)

10:00 – 10:45

Posters and Coffee:

Affective Dialogues with an ECA: from information-oriented to persuasion-oriented
Fiorella de Rosis, Giuseppe Clarizio, Ian O’Neill, Philip Hanna

Affective and Persuasive Guide
Mei Yii Lim, Ruth Aylett, and Christian Martyn Jones

An emotional approach to designing self-awareness mechanisms for CMC
Asimina Vasalou, Jeremy Pitt

10:45 – 11:45

Relations across WP’s

coordinator: Roddy Cowie

11:45 – 13:00

Operational meeting & conclusive panel