Workshop Themes
Areas of research that touch on Situated Dialog:
- Auditory scene analysis and interpretation
- Acquisition and tracking of dialog channels
- Explicit and implicit grounding
- Out-of-Vocabulary inputs and their resolution
- Advanced conversational capabilities: Initiation and termination, multi-party
- Multi-modal interaction (gesture and gaze)
- Language-based learning and instruction
- Dialog interaction for robotic systems or kiosks
- Interfaces to automotive systems
- Spoken language for mobile applications
Research and development in the following areas are relevant to this meeting; we also invite the submission of original papers in any related area:
- Speech recognition and understanding,
- Dialog management, Adaptive dialog modeling,
- Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data,
- Emotional and interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during dialog, User modeling,
- Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description,
- Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions,
- Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output,
- Fusion, fission and information management, Learning and adaptability,
- Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction,
- Spoken Dialog databases and corpora, including methodologies and ethics,
- Objective and subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies, strategies and paradigms,
- Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc. We put this year workshop under the theme