[iva] CFP: Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications
Timothy Bickmore
bickmore at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Apr 13 14:11:11 CEST 2018
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 Deanhttp://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bickmore/
College of Computer and Information Science Office: (617) 373-5477
Northeastern University, 911-177
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