Call for Submissions: Integration of Perception & Action

                         AAAI-05

   Workshop on Integration of Perception & Action in Multimodal
                        Systems

      http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~pelachaud/AAAI05/


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Perception, in addition to motor skill, is critical in organizing
movement and communication in systems that interact naturally with
humans. Conversation is by no means a sequence of one-way message
sending, with the role of participants alternating between that of
“sender” and “receiver”. Rather, conversants adapt continuously to
each other during the conversation: what a participant says, and
how and when she says it, depends on her perception of the others’
behaviour, their (perceived and inferred) mental and
communicational capabilities and preferences, attention,
understanding, emotional state, etc. Conversation is thus a
two-way street of multiple message types, no matter who has the
turn. From a technical point of view, face-to-face conversation
can be described as layered feedback loops at various time-scales.

In this workshop we wish to address tight integration of
perception and action as it applies to real-time dialog -- systems
that perceive real communicative acts in a human, or another
artificial system situated in the real world, and are able to use
this to act in accordance with the rules of human face-to-face
conversation and social convention.

MAJOR TOPICS
     - Integrated and interwoven usage of multiple input and output modalities
     - Models integrating perception of the user: physical presence, reaction,
       behaviour, inferred communicative intent, as well as cognitive and emotional states
     - Perception techniques for communicative systems
     - Computational models for and AI tools to develop perceptive and adaptive systems
     - Adaptation to the user (age, gender, language, culture, personality, …)
     - Adaptation to the operational environment (noise, public place)
     - Evaluation studies of/for perceptive and adaptive communicative systems
     - Representations for communicative perception, knowledge and action
     - Planning techniques for real-time, multimodal dialog
     - Active perception during turn-taking

TIMELINE
April 20 : Deadline for submissions of contributions
May 11: Authors' notification.
May 18: Submission of camera ready contribution for the workshop
        notes (IMPORTANT: Accepted papers only have a week to prepare a
        photoready copy. This tight timeline is due to scheduling problems
        in the conference itself, which we are unfortunately unable to
        change.)
July 9 : Workshop

SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers should be up to 8 pages long (using 11pt, single space, all
margins of 2cm) in the style specified by AAAI:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html.

Submissions should preferably be accompanied by animations or URLs
showing multimedia content (actual systems, screen-shots,
animations, etc.) describing the work presented.

Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, quality of
the work and clarity of the presentation.

Please email submissions in pdf format to the workshop chair:
c.pelachaud AT iut.univ-paris8.fr.

WORKSHOP OUTCOME PUBLICATION
AAAI technical reports to be included in the AAAI Digital Library

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Primary Contact:
Catherine Pelachaud
LINC - IUT de Montreuil
University of Paris 8 France
Email: c.pelachaud AT iut.univ-paris8.fr

Zsofia Ruttkay
Human Media Interaction
University of Twente The Netherlands
Email: zsofi AT cs.utwente.nl

Kris R. Thórisson
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Reykjavik University
Email: thorisson AT ru.is

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elisabeth Andre, DE
Norman Badler, USA
Doug de Carlo, USA
Attila Fazekas, HU
Sylvie Gibet, FR
Björn Granstrom, SE
Katherine Isbister, USA
Stefanos Kollias, GR
Kossuth Lajos, HU
Christine Lisetti, FR
Stacy Marsella, USA
Jean-Claude Martin, FR
Nikolaos Mavridis, USA
Helmut, Prendinger, JP
Mark Steedman, GB
Matthew Stone, USA