<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> ============2017 English Mail================= [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************ Call for Participation Next Generation Human-Agent Interaction Workshop (NGHAI Workshop) To be Held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2017) <a href="http://nghai.net/">http://nghai.net/</a> October 17, 2017, Bielefeld Submission Deadline: July 25, 2017 ************************************************************************ NGHAI is the workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, for next generation researchers (young researchers, students, and newcomers) in Human-Agent Interaction field. Purpose of the workshop is to provide the opportunity for the next generation researchers to build collaborative relations by presenting and discussing their work and passion with comrades all over the world. The constructive relationship will lead the researchers to tackle pivotal challenges in HAI. Encouraging interaction of the next generation researchers will contribute development of HAI field's future. The report of NGHAI workshop held last year is shown in following website. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nghai.net/2016/">http://nghai.net/2016/</a> ______________ LIST OF TOPICS ______________ NGHAI Workshop invites submissions from students and researchers to the field of Human-Agent Interaction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - designs and studies of Human-Agent Interaction, including quantitative and qualitative results, - theoretical models of Human-Agent Interaction, - technological advances in Human-Agent Interaction, - impacts of embodiment (e.g., physical vs digital, human vs animal-like), - experimental methods for Human-Agent Interaction, - character and avatar design in video games, - agents in social network, This includes more targeted results that have implications to the broader human-agent interaction community: - human-robot interaction, - human-virtual agent interaction, - interaction with smart homes and smart cars, - distributed groupware where people have remote embodiments and representations, - and many more. ________________ IMPORTANT DATES ________________ - 25 July 2017: Submission deadline of NGHAI workshop - 15 August 2017: Notification acceptance - 18 August 2017: Final camera-ready papers due ___________ SUBMISSION ___________ - 2-4 pages - ACM SIGCHI paper format ( <a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform</a> ) - Papers should be anonymized - Papers will NOT be archived in ACM Digital Library ___________ PRESENTATION ___________ - Oral presentation - 10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A (No poster presentation this year) </body> </html>