Call for Papers ADS'04

        
                          3rd Call for Papers


                   Tutorial and Research Workshop

                                on

                     AFFECTIVE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

                              ADS'04

                     June 14 through June 16, 2004

                     http://www.sigmedia.org/ads04


Deadline for paper proposal submission: now January 31, 2004 !


INTRODUCTION

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this Tutorial and
Research Workshop on AFFECTIVE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (ADS04), which will be
held at the Kloster Irsee in southern Germany from June 14 to June 16,
2004.

After two successful ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops on
Multimodal Dialogue Systems at Kloster Irsee, Germany in 1999 and
2002, a discussion of the latest developments in the area of affective
multimodal dialogue systems now seems timely.

The workshop will focus on the role of affect and emotion in dialogue
including e.g. design issues, applications, evaluation and tools. It
will provide a forum for the presentation of research and applications
and for lively discussions among researchers as well as
industrialists. Prototype and product demonstrations will be very
welcome.

ADS04 is organised as a collaboration between the Universities of
Augsburg, Ulm and Southern Denmark and DaimlerChrysler Research and
Technology.  We welcome you to the workshop.

Elisabeth André
Intelligent User Interfaces,
University of Augsburg, Germany
andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de

Laila Dybkjær
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory,
University of Southern Denmark
laila@nis.sdu.dk

Wolfgang Minker
Department of Information Technology
University of Ulm, Germany
wolfgang.minker@e-technik.uni-ulm.de

Paul Heisterkamp
Dialogue Systems,
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
paul.heisterkamp@daimlerchrysler.com



WORKSHOP THEMES

Papers may discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations,
general tools and techniques. Discussion papers that critically
evaluate approaches or processing strategies and prototype
demonstrations are especially welcome.

* Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures and facial
  expressions
* Expression of emotions via speech, gestures and facial expressions
* Emotional speech synthesis
* Frustration detection in multimodal dialogue systems
* Virtual agents exploiting affect for better interaction
* Animated agents provoking human empathy
* Modelling emotional agents
* Emotion and cognition
* Affective user modelling
* Emotion-based reasoning capabilities for coordination, conflict
  description and problem solving
* Emotional databases and corpora
* Evaluation strategies and paradigms for affective interaction


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The format of the workshop will be a non-overlapping mixture of oral
and poster sessions. A number of tutorial lectures will be given by
internationally recognised experts from the area of Affective Dialogue
Systems.

All poster sessions will be opened by an oral summary by the session
chair. A number of poster sessions will be succeeded by a discussion
session focussing on the subject of the session. It is our belief that
this general format will ensure a lively and valuable workshop.

The organisers would like to encourage researchers and industrialists
to take the opportunity to bring their applications as well as their
demonstrator prototypes and design tools for demonstration to the
workshop. If sufficient interest is shown, a special
demonstrator/poster session will be organised and followed by a
discussion session.

The official language of the workshop is English. At the opening of
the workshop hardcopies of the proceedings, published in the LNCS/LNAI
Series by Springer Verlag, will be available.


SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL

We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:

* Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research
  results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the
  range of 6-12 pages.

* Short Research Papers should not exceed 4 pages in total. Authors
  may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case
  studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts

* Demo Submissions - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate
  their system during ADS04 may choose this category and provide a
  description of their system, installation, or demo. System papers
  should not exceed 4 pages in total.

Final versions of papers will appear in the ADS04 conference proceedings.

Schedule:

Submission of paper proposal: January 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2004
Submission of final paper: April 15, 2004


INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Scientific Committee consists of the following group of
internationally recognised researchers (the list will be extended):

Jan Alexandersson
Niels Ole Bernsen
Cristina Conati
Janet Cahn
Piero Cosi
Ellen Douglas-Cowie
Silke Goronzy
Jim Glass
Björn Granström
Jon Gratch
Joakim Gustafson
Eli Hagen
Lisa Harper
Kia Hoeoek
David House
Ralf Kompe
Christine Lisetti
Jean-Claude Martin
Dominic Massaro
Géza Németh
Elmar Nöth
Ana Paiva
Catherine Pelachaud
Helmut Prendinger
Fiorella de Rosis
Alex Rudnicky
Marc Schroeder
Oliviero Stock
David Traum
Wolfgang Wahlster
Wayne Ward

CONTACT INFORMATION

Comments on ADS'04 Workshop to: ads04@nis.sdu.dk