<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">CUI 2019 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">(ACM SIGCHI In Co-Operation)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.cui2019.com/" class="">https://www.cui2019.com<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Provocation Papers (indexed in ACM DL)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">*****May 24th@ 23:59 BST*****</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">CUI 2019 is looking provocation papers: short papers that explore controversial, risk taking or nascent ideas that have the potential to spark debate and discussion at the conference. Papers are welcome from a broad range of disciplines including: human-computer interaction, computer science, engineering, speech technology, linguistics, psychology, cognitive sciences and sociology. Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- voice user experience</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- speech interfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- speech interface theory development</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- conversational interaction through technology</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- text-based conversational interfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- chatbots</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- speech synthesis</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- speech recognition</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- dialogue management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- conversational interface design insights</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- methods for conversational user interface development and evaluation</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">- multimodal interaction involving speech, text or other language based </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">interfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">*Submission format and instructions* </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.cui2019.com/fullpapers" class="">https://www.cui2019.com/provocationpapers<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">2 page papers (excluding references) using the current (LaTeX) or interim (Microsoft Word) ACM Templates. Submissions must be anonymised.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Provocation papers will be high quality original pieces of research relevant to the topics above. Each paper will undergo jury review and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 14, 14);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Submissions must be made using the EasyChair website: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cui2019" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(7, 0, 153);" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cui2019</span></a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">*Important dates*</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">**May 24th - Submission deadline**</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">June 21st - Notification to authors</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">*About CUI 2019*</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">CUI 2019 is the 1st annual International Conference on Conversational </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">User Interfaces. It aims to be the premier interdisciplinary conference </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">for researchers and practitioners across the world to discuss the latest </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">in conversational interface technology. This inaugural event will take </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">place in Dublin, Ireland on 22nd-23rd August 2019 and will be hosted in </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">the heart of the city centre. The conference holds ACM SIGCHI In </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Co-Operation status.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">There has been an increasing interest in language based interactions </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">with technology. Through the commercial success of intelligent personal </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">assistant devices such as Alexa and Google Home, to the growth of the </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">use of chatbots in commercial settings, the number of natural language </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">and conversation based interactions is growing. Although there is growth </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">in this area, with much technical effort being applied and promoted in </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">these areas (e.g. Interspeech, SIGDIAL), there is comparatively little </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">promotion of and exploration of important human-computer interaction and </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">design based issues. This event, growing from successful workshops at </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">both ACM CHI and ACM Mobile HCI, looks to begin to develop an </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">independent yet collaborative community with specific interest in theory </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text based </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">conversational user interfaces. The event looks to bring together the </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">ISCA and ACM SIGCHI communities to publish and promote insight and </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">debate in this interesting and important discipline within language </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">interfaces.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">*Organising Committee*</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Benjamin R Cowan</b> (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Leigh Clark </b>(University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Julie Berndsen</b> (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Martin Porcheron</b> (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Jens Edlund</b> (KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Kristiina Jokinen</b> (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">and Technology, Japan)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Matthew Aylett</b> (CereProc Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Eva Szekely </b>(KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Philip Doyle</b> (Voysis Ltd., Dublin, Ireland)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Justin Edwards </b>(University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)</span></div></body></html>