<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><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 class="" style="margin: 0px;">With apologies for multiple posting:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">***********************************************************************</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Bielefeld University, Germany</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">16-17 October, 2017</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://mmsym.org" class="">http://mmsym.org</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Description</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">---------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. The multimodal communication symposium is organized by the Cluster of Excellence on Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University and will be co-located with the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent-Interaction (HAI 2017; main program 18-20 October, 2017).</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">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</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Multimodal communication as a research area is growing rapidly. There is indeed an increased interest in embodied and situated communication – how humans interact with</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">each other using different modalities, as well as how technological artifacts affect communicative activities. Work places as well as school environments, health care and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">other services increasingly involve complex multimodal communication. The development in innovative computer interfaces, mobile media and robotics makes new</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">multimodal technical solutions to communicative challenges possible while at the same time creating new challenges for communication research.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Topics</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">--------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited to:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Speech, gestures and signs in human communication</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal systems for sign language users</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal health communication</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal dialogue systems</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Multimodal corpora</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Sign language corpora</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">* Evaluation methods for multimodal systems</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Invited speakers</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">----------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Irene Mittelberg</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Christian Wolf</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Associate professor at INSA de Lyon and LIRIS UMR 5205</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Important dates</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">---------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">New deadline for abstract submissions: 14 July, 2017</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Notification of acceptance: 07 August, 2017</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Revised abstracts: 29 September, 2017</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Symposium dates: 16-17 October, 2017</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Submissions and announcement</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">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="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2017</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Documentation and dissemination</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">---------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">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. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">These papers will undergo a new round of reviewing.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Organizing committee</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">------------------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Patrizia Paggio (Universities of Copenhagen and Malta)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Costanza Navarretta (University of Copenhagen)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Jens Allwood and Elisabeth Ahlsèn (University of Gothenburg)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Kristiina Jokinen (Universities of Helsinki and Tartu)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Local organizers</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">----------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Kirsten Bergmann</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Stefan Kopp</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Provisional programme committee</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">-------------------------------</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Elisabeth Ahlsén, University of Gothenburg</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Alan Cienki, VU Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Kristiina Jokinen, University of Tartu</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;">Silvi Tenjes, University of Tartu</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></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>