<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">With apologies for multiple posting:</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">***********************************************************************</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Bielefeld University, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">16-17 October, 2017</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://mmsym.org" class="">http://mmsym.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Description</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">---------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. The multimodal communication symposium is organized by the <a href="https://www.cit-ec.de/" class="">Cluster of Excellence on Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)</a> at Bielefeld University and will be co-located with the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent-Interaction (<a href="http://hai-conference.net/hai2017/" class="">HAI 2017</a>; main program 18-20 October, 2017).</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">The symposium follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 1997 till 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013 the symposium has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta, Estonia, Ireland, and Denmark. This year the symposium will be held in Germany for the first time.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Multimodal communication as a research area is growing rapidly. There is indeed an increased interest in embodied and situated communication – how humans interact with each other using different modalities, as well as how technological artifacts affect communicative activities. Work places as well as school environments, health care and other services increasingly involve complex multimodal communication. The development in innovative computer interfaces, mobile media and robotics makes new multimodal technical solutions to communicative challenges possible while at the same time creating new challenge s for communication research.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Topics</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">--------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Speech, gestures and signs in human communication</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal systems for sign language users</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal health communication</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal dialogue systems</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Multimodal corpora</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Sign language corpora</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">* Evaluation methods for multimodal systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Invited speakers</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">TBA</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Important dates</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">---------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">New deadline for abstract submissions: 14 July, 2017</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Notification of acceptance: 07 August, 2017</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Revised abstracts: 29 September, 2017</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Symposium dates: 16-17 October, 2017</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Submissions and announcement</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">--------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Authors are invited to submit anonymous abstracts of 2 pages in PDF format. Abstracts must be submitted at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2017" class=""><span style="color: rgb(4, 46, 238);" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2017</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Documentation and dissemination</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">---------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">A booklet of abstracts will be published online and distributed at the conference. A post-symposium peer-reviewed publication of selected long papers will be considered. These papers will undergo a new round of reviewing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Organizing committee</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Patrizia Paggio (Universities of Copenhagen and Malta)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Costanza Navarretta (University of Copenhagen)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Jens Allwood and Elisabeth Ahlsèn (University of Gothenburg)</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Kristiina Jokinen (Universities of Helsinki and Tartu)</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Local organizers</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">----------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Kirsten Bergmann</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Stefan Kopp</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Provisional programme committee</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">-------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Elisabeth Ahlsén, University of Gothenburg</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Loredana Cerrato, Trinity College Dublin</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Alan Cienki, VU Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Onno Crasborn, Radboud University Nijmegen</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Jens Edlund, KTH Stockholm</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Dirk Heylen, University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Kristiina Jokinen, University of Tartu</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Michael Kipp, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Silvi Tenjes, University of Tartu</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="">------------<br class="">Dr.-Ing. Kirsten Bergmann<br class="">Social Cognitive Systems Group</div><div class="">CITEC, Faculty of Technology<br class="">Bielefeld University<br class=""><a href="http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~kbergman" class="">http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~kbergman</a></div></div></div></div> </div> <br class=""></body></html>