[emcai] Call for papers - Interdisciplinary workshop on context-aware embodied spoken interactions

[Hannah Pelikan]

CFP to the Workshop on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on COntext-aware
embodied Spoken Interactions

We invite submissions for the Workshop on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on
COntext-aware embodied Spoken Interactions (MP-COSIN<https://www.mpcosin.com/>), which will be held as part of the International
Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023<https://ro-man2023.org/main>) in Busan, Korea on August 31st.

Workshop Goal:
The workshop aims to gather researchers in the fields of speech
technology, dialogue systems, and human-robot interaction to discuss the
challenges of creating interactive agents that can take their environment,
context and own embodiment into account to make the interactions with their
users natural and convincing. While it is already challenging to deploy
embodied agents for spoken interactions in the real world, the addition of
a dynamically evolving context during the interaction makes the complexity
of this task even higher. As these types of interactions can fail or
succeed in many different ways, it is important to bring different fields
together to share experiences in addressing this research path. In
particular, communities with a history of research on spoken dialogue
systems, conversation analysis, and conversational user interfaces can help
provide a common ground on the notion of context-awareness and how it could
be developed for robotics and human-robot interaction.

How to participate:
We welcome papers that are maximum 4 pages in length, excluding references
(if necessary, figures can be included in an appendix).

All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process and authors
should use the templates provided by the RO-MAN conference and follow the
format specified there. Authors should submit their papers electronically,
in PDF format, via the EasyChair submission<https://easychair.org/account/signin_timeout?l=9GfWVWDnb9CRyO4gpbQsFk> site.

Potential topics for the workshop:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

   - Position papers on context and domain in HRI
   - Studies of the effects of context-awareness in HRI
   - Analyses of how robot embodiment affects domain & context
   - Multimodal fusion for communicative modalities
   - Descriptions/demonstrations of adaptive speech dialogue systems
   - Empirical studies that demonstrate how interactions evolve situated
   contexts
   - In-the-wild HRI studies on evolving situated contexts

Important Information and Dates
Submission deadline: June 9th, 2023 (AOE)

Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2023

Workshop date: August 31st, 2023

Location: Busan, South Korea/hybrid, as part of the International Conference on
Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023)

See workshop website for details: https://www.mpcosin.com/home


Organizers
Ronald Cumbal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Agnes Axelsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Hannah Pelikan (Linköping University)
Divesh Lala (Kyoto University)
Merle Reimann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Felix Gervits (DEVCOM US Army Research Laboratory)
Olov Engwall (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)


Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the workshop!

Best wishes,
Hannah

Hannah Pelikan
PhD candidate| Language and Culture | Linköping University
https://liu.se/en/employee/hanpe82
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