Workshop on Affect-aware Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction

Workshop Details

The workshop takes place during the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

15 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

Athens. Greece

http://www.petrae.org/index.html

Call for Papers

Call for papers
Workshop on
Affect-aware Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction
during the 1st International Conference on PErvasive
Technologies Related to Assistive environments (PETRA'08)
Athens, Greece July 15-19, 2008
Conference website: http://www.petrae.org

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Recent research results in the area of multimodal interfaces have been focusing on the development of natural, adaptive and intelligent interfaces enabling machines and robots to communicate with humans in ways close to human-to-human interaction. Natural interfaces, catering for visual, speech, and gestural input and human-like interface agents and robots are the two main characteristics of the dominant approaches; in terms of theoretical definition, such interfaces are beginning to take into account emotion representation theories and definitions of virtual personalities. As a result, systems are developed which take into account user expressivity and have robust natural multimodal interaction capabilities. In addition to computer systems, affect-aware robotic platforms are currently emerging even into the consumer market. Not long ago, the social impact of these products in everyday life was largely unknown. However, with the advent of low-cost robots, able to receive, transmit and process visual, motion and sound information, interface agents and assistants have taken an embodied form as well. This workshop is based on themes from successfully completed and current European projects in the fields of interfaces and robotics, such as NoE Humaine, IP Callas, and STREP Feelix-Growing.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Affect-aware interfaces
Ambient/natural interfaces
Adaptive/cooperative interfaces
Interfaces for attentive and intelligent environments
Signal acquisition and processing for handicapped people
Information/Sensor Fusion techniques and Architectures
Machine Learning for human-computer and human-robot interaction
Multimodal recognition of affect
Affect recognition "in the wild"
Theory of Emotion/Emotion Representation
Cognitive modeling of users
Virtual/augmented environments for handicapped people
Affect-aware e-learning applications
Applications of Affective Robots
Emerging affect-aware Standards

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Elisabeth Andre, Univ. of Augsburg, Germany
Kostas Karpouzis, ICCS/NTUA, Greece
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ilias Maglogiannis, Univ. of Aegean, Greece
Stefanos Kollias, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Philippe Gaussier, Cergy-Pontoise University/ENSEA, France
John Soldatos, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: March 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008
Camera ready papers due: May 20, 2008
Prospective authors should submit their contribution through e-mail to hci-petra_at_image.ntua.gr, under the instructions described in http://www.petrae.org/proceedings.htm. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the workshop and present the paper. Authors should use the ACM Word or LaTeX style templates to prepare their articles (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages. Papers may be accepted either as full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Proceedings of the Conference. ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library.

Deadline: 30 March 2008

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