<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="">With apologies for multiple posting:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">*****************************************************************************************</div><div class="">The 5th European and 8th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication</div><div class="">Bielefeld University, Germany</div><div class="">16-17 October, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://mmsym.org" class="">http://mmsym.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">****************************************************************************************</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 28 July, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">****************************************************************************************</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Description</div><div class="">---------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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="">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=""><br class=""></div><div 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</div><div class="">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=""><br class=""></div><div 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</div><div class="">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="">other services increasingly involve complex multimodal communication. The development in innovative computer interfaces, mobile media and robotics makes new</div><div class="">multimodal technical solutions to communicative challenges possible while at the same time creating new challenges for communication research.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics</div><div class="">--------</div><div class="">Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited to:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Speech, gestures and signs in human communication</div><div class="">* Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour</div><div class="">* Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)</div><div class="">* Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents</div><div class="">* Multimodal systems for sign language users</div><div class="">* Multimodal health communication</div><div class="">* Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)</div><div class="">* Multimodal dialogue systems</div><div class="">* Multimodal corpora</div><div class="">* Sign language corpora</div><div class="">* Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora</div><div class="">* Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction</div><div class="">* Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data</div><div class="">* Evaluation methods for multimodal systems</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Invited speakers</div><div class="">----------------------</div><div class="">Irene Mittelberg</div><div class="">Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Christian Wolf</div><div class="">Associate professor at INSA de Lyon and LIRIS UMR 5205</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important dates</div><div class="">---------------------</div><div class="">Extended deadline for abstract submissions: 28 July, 2017</div><div class="">Notification of acceptance: 18 August, 2017</div><div class="">Revised abstracts: 29 September, 2017</div><div class="">Symposium dates: 16-17 October, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions and announcement</div><div class="">--------------------------------------------</div><div 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="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2017</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Documentation and dissemination</div><div class="">---------------------------------------------</div><div 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. </div><div class="">These papers will undergo a new round of reviewing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Organizing committee</div><div class="">------------------------------</div><div class="">Patrizia Paggio (Universities of Copenhagen and Malta)</div><div class="">Costanza Navarretta (University of Copenhagen)</div><div class="">Jens Allwood and Elisabeth Ahlsèn (University of Gothenburg)</div><div class="">Kristiina Jokinen (Universities of Helsinki and Tartu)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Local organizers</div><div class="">----------------------</div><div class="">Kirsten Bergmann</div><div class="">Stefan Kopp</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Provisional programme committee</div><div class="">-------------------------------</div><div class="">Elisabeth Ahlsén, University of Gothenburg</div><div class="">Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg</div><div class="">Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University</div><div class="">Alan Cienki, VU Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University</div><div class="">Kristiina Jokinen, University of Tartu</div><div class="">Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University</div><div class="">Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen</div><div class="">Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen</div><div class="">Silvi Tenjes, University of Tartu</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><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=""></div></body></html>