[iva] CFP: Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications

[Timothy Bickmore]

Workshop on Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care 
Applications
Held in conjunction with Federated AI Meeting (FAIM)
14th-15th of July, 2018
Stockholm

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018

Communication is of crucial importance in home and geriatric care. 
Caregivers are expected not only to facilitate information, guidance and 
instruction, but also to interact as trustworthy companions of 
caretakers. In the light of the fact that more and more individuals are 
increasingly in need of home and geriatric care, ensuring adequate 
service for all has become a societal challenge. With the increasing 
maturity of verbal and non-verbal communication understanding and 
generation technologies, knowledge-based dialogue management techniques, 
external knowledge acquisition, and virtual character and robot design, 
questions regarding the use of intelligent conversational agents in home 
and geriatric applications has become increasingly important. At the 
same time, the home and geriatric care context implies specific 
technical and ethical challenges with respect to language, social 
behaviour, data and knowledge management, etc. An increasing number of 
research initiatives address these challenges. The aim of the workshop 
is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of 
intelligent conversational agents and related fields, practitioners who 
deploy such agents in the context of home and geriatric care 
applications, and critical users, who can report about their experience 
with the use of conversational agents within these applications. Apart 
from cutting edge technical submissions, contributions that address the 
challenge of the use of agents in home and geriatric care from the 
ethical perspective are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are 
not restricted to:

  *      Specifics of the home and geriatric care context for
    conversational agents
  *      Ethical challenges in home and geriatric care applications
  *      Design of intelligent conversational agents for home and
    geriatric care applications
  *      Personalized agent embodiments
  *      The use of virtual and augmented reality techniques in home and
    geriatric care applications
  *      Personalized knowledge and data management in conversational agents
  *      Knowledge modelling in conversational agents
  *      Question answering techniques for conversational agents
  *      Semantic data fusion and reasoning for multimodal interaction
    with elderly
  *      Dialogue management for highly unpredictable conversation shifts
  *      Adaptation of the language style and vocabulary of
    conversational agents to a targeted user
  *      Emotional behaviour of conversational agents in emotionally
    charged contexts
  *      Multimodal interaction strategies in conversations with elderly
  *      Conversational agent interaction with mentally challenged users


Submissions

We invite full (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, with an unlimited 
number of pages for references. Submissions must conform with the ACM 
proceedings style guidelines, be in PDF format and anonymized to 
facilitate the double blind reviewing process. The submission site will 
be opened shortly.

To encourage inclusiveness and the presentation of speculative and 
recent work, inclusion in the conference proceedings is optional. The 
author’s preference should be indicated with the final submission.

Organizing committee:
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University
Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Thessaloniki
Leo Wanner, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona


Website:     http://taln.upf.edu/pages/ica_ws/

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Timothy W. Bickmore, Ph.D.                         bickmore at ccs.neu.edu
Professor & Associate Dean        http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bickmore/
College of Computer and Information Science      Office: (617) 373-5477
Northeastern University, 911-177
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