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| Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces in Semantic Interaction 2007 - Programme Committee |
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International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Nagoya, Japan, Nov 15, 2007 |
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Organizers:
Naoto Iwahashi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan)
Program Committee Members: Hideki Asoh (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Masahiro Araki (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Michael Beetz (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
James Glass (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Christian Goerick (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)
Tetsunari Inamura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Frederic Kaplan (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, France)
Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Takayuki Nagai (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Tsuneo Nitta (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Natsuki Oka (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hiroyuki Okada (Tamagawa University, Japan)
Hiroshi G. Okuno (Kyoto University, Japan)
Candace Sidner (BAE Systems, USA)
David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)
With the advances in ubiquitous networks, data mining, communication
robots, and sensing technologies, various information on the real world
has become available in real time. This information, presented to the
user, not only makes it possible to support his or her intellectual
activities but may also be utilized as context, thus opening great
possibilities of achieving situated intelligent functions.
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information systems and robots that support human activities in
everyday life should ideally have functions that allow them to interact
with humans adaptively according to context, such as the situation in
the real world and each human's individual characteristics. For
instance, these functions might include the ability to understand the
user's intention through his or her utterances, as well as the ability
to provide suitable information at appropriate timing.
In order to realize such interaction-as semantic interaction-it is
necessary to extract and use the valuable context information needed
for understanding interaction from the obtained real-world information.
This context information is multimodal information at several levels:
1) raw information obtained from sensors, 2) information obtained
through categorization, and 3) the relationships between categories.
In semantic interaction, it is important for the user and the machine
to share knowledge and an understanding of a given situation. Thus, it
is necessary to infer the user's intention and to represent the
machine's inner state naturally through speech, images, graphics,
manipulators, and so on. This is achieved based on the multimodal
context information. Accordingly, the development of multimodal
interfaces is a very important research theme.
The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers active in the above
field, or related domains, to discuss theories, basic technologies, and
application systems. We are looking for position papers as well as
research papers that debate or contribute to the following (and other
related) areas:
* Extraction of context information from the real world
* Situated interaction using context information
* Theories and basic technologies on the grounding of language
* Situated dialogue system
* Human-robot interaction
* Inference of intention and mental state from user's behavior
* Processing of emotion and paralinguistic information
* Embodiment in semantic interaction
* Adaptation, learning, and development for semantic interaction
* Active sensing for semantic interaction |
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