<html><head><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 class=""><span class="">We apologize for multiple postings of this message.</span></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Workshop on Conversational Interruptions in Human-Agent Interactions (CIHAI)</b></div><div class=""><b class="">2nd Call for Papers</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Web site:</b> <a href="http://workshopcihai2017.doc.ic.ac.uk" class="">http://workshopcihai2017.doc.ic.ac.uk</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Important dates</b></div><div class="">02 June 2017:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Full paper submission deadline</div><div class="">17 July 2017:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Authors notification</div><div class="">28 July 2017:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Camera-ready deadline</div><div class="">28 July 2017:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Demo 1-page description submission deadline</div><div class="">Same as IVA:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Early registration deadline</div><div class="">Same as IVA:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Registration deadline</div><div class="">27 August 2017:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Full day workshop</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Overview</b></div><div class="">This workshop will be held at IVA 2017 in Stockholm on August, 27th. The aim is to bring together researchers from a variety of fields interested in the study of conversational interruptions in multimodal human-human, human-agent (both virtual and robotic) or agent-agent interactions. Our aim is to address current challenges in this area (as well as identifying new ones) and to set a research agenda to make IVAs capable of believably react and adapt to unexpected situations such as conversational interruptions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Topics of interests include (but are not limited to)</b></div><div class="">* Challenges and approaches for real-time agent’s interruption handling;</div><div class="">* Expression and synthesis of agent’s multimodal reactions to interruptions;</div><div class="">* Agent management of user’s interruptions;</div><div class="">* Methods and techniques for modeling agents that interrupt users;</div><div class="">* Evaluation techniques in dyadic/group interactions and impact on user’s perception.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Format</b></div><div class="">In this one day workshop, authors of accepted papers will present their work during the morning. In the afternoon we will break out in small groups and participate in an interactive demo session offered by participants. The workshop will terminate with a final discussion panel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Submissions</b></div><div class="">We invite two types of submissions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) <b class="">Full papers:</b> will be reviewed and selected based on relevance, originality and theoretical and/or technical quality. Accepted submissions will be presented (orally) at the workshop (15 minutes + 5 minutes of Q&A). At least one author will be required to register and attend the workshop. Papers must be formatted according to the requirements for Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), anonymized, and submitted in PDF format (guidelines and templates on the main IVA 2017 conference website). Accepted full paper contributions will be published in the online CEUR Workshop Proceedings (<a href="http://CEUR-WS.org" class="">CEUR-WS.org</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) <b class="">Demos</b>: Participants (regardless of the paper acceptance) have the opportunity to showcase their work and obtain general feedback from the workshop’s attendees. The goal of the demos is to provide attendees with a more tangible experience of the issues under discussion. Prospective presenters must submit a single PDF page including: title, author(s), short description (5 lines max.) and a screenshot of the work to be presented. The demo description will not be peer reviewed and will not be published in the workshop proceedings.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All submissions type should be sent into via e-mail to: <i class=""><a href="mailto:angelo.cafaro@isir.upmc.fr" class="">angelo.cafaro@isir.upmc.fr</a></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Organizers</b></div><div class="">Angelo Cafaro (CNRS-ISIR, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France)</div><div class="">Blaise Potard (Cereproc LTD, UK)</div><div class="">Eduardo Coutinho (ICL and University of Liverpool, UK)</div><div class="">Patrick Gebhard (DFKI, Germany)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Contacts</b></div><div class="">Angelo Cafaro: <a href="mailto:angelo.cafaro@isir.upmc.fr" class="">angelo.cafaro@isir.upmc.fr</a></div><div class="">Blaise Potard: <a href="mailto:blaise@cereproc.com" class="">blaise@cereproc.com</a></div><div class="">Eduardo Coutinho: <a href="mailto:e.coutinho@imperial.ac.uk" class="">e.coutinho@imperial.ac.uk</a></div><div class="">Patrick Gebhard: <a href="mailto:patrick.gebhard@dfki.de" class="">patrick.gebhard@dfki.de</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Web:</b> <a href="http://workshopcihai2017.doc.ic.ac.uk" class="">http://workshopcihai2017.doc.ic.ac.uk</a></div></body></html>