[iva] CUI at CSCW: Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces at the ACM CSCW conference

[Leigh Clark]

** DEADLINE EXTENDED ONE WEEK **

//
// COLLABORATING THROUGH
// CONVERSATIONAL USER INTERFACES WORKSHOP
// AT THE (VIRTUAL) ACM CSCW CONFERENCE
//

Workshop details below, or on our website: 
http://speech-interaction.org/CSCW2020/


// KEY DATES //
Submission deadline: 6th September (23:59 Anywhere on Earth)
Notifications: 13th September
Workshop: 17th or 18th October (TBC)


// ABOUT THE WORKSHOP //
The virtual CUI at CSCW workshop will bring together the burgeoning 
communities centred on the design, development, application, and study 
of Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs). We will examine the challenges 
involved in transforming CUIs into everyday computing devices capable of 
supporting collaborative activities across space and time. Additionally, 
we intend to establish a cohesive CUI community and research agenda 
within CSCW and examine the roles in which CSCW research can contribute 
insights into understanding how CUIs are or can be used in various 
settings. By bringing together existing researchers and new ideas in 
this space, we intend to foster a strong community and enable potential 
future collaborations.

Additionally, this workshop seeks to establish a cohesive CUI community 
and research agenda within CSCW. We will examine the roles in which CSCW 
research can contribute insights into understanding how CUIs are or can 
be used in a variety of settings, from public to private, and how they 
can be brought into a potentially unlimited number of tasks.


// CHALLENGES //
In this virtual workshop, we want to specifically address issues 
cognisant to this overlap between the CUI and CSCW communities:
•       Examine key ideas around the notion of how individuals or groups 
collaborate with or through CUIs (voice or text-based)
•       Re-imagine CUIs as everyday computing interfaces
•       Discuss the strategies for studying and designing CUIs within 
CSCW's understanding of group work and collaboration
•       Explore parameters and issues needing to be considered in 
designing CUIs for multi-agent, multi-user conversations and tasks
•       Understand the challenges in designing inclusive CUIs that 
accommodate and are sensitive to a wider range of personal, social, and 
cultural contexts, especially in multi-party interactions
Furthermore, there are specific and timely issues that we wish this 
workshop to raise, including:
•       How can CUIs enhance or support an individual's personal health 
and wellbeing?
•       How can CUIs support individuals who may be (self) 
isolating/shielding?
•       How can the community address issues of biased or problematic 
AIs and enable CUIs to be used by the most diverse range of people, 
irrespective of age, ethnicity, or gender?
•       How can we address existing CUI and VUI usability issues that 
limit accessibility to both general and underrepresented populations 
(older adults, users with vision/mobility impairments, etc.)?
•       How can CUIs become a way for individuals with low literacy or 
access to technology to interact with digital media and the Internet?
•       How can CUIs be created in a collaborative way by a diverse 
range of people, especially by non-machine learning experts?


// SUBMISSION INFORMATION //
We invite researchers from academia and practitioners from industry to 
submit position papers. Papers should be 3–6 pages long (including 
references) in the ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstract template (Word/LaTeX). 
The submission should describe the authors’ work related to the workshop 
challenges, or any other key topic that authors feel should be addressed 
by the community.

We will prioritise papers that respond to pressing social topics, 
including remote working, isolation, and healthcare. We are ambitious 
for papers to be diverse in terms of topic, discipline, and approach, 
and workshop participation to be open and accessible to all people.

In addition to papers, we will invite the submission of one-page 
position statements for participants who wish to join the workshop 
without submitting a paper. In our past experiences we have found that 
this option is particularly attractive to industry-based researchers.

Submissions should be made by email to Martin Porcheron by 11:59PM on 
the 6th September (Anywhere on Earth). More information is on our website


// ORGANISERS //
Martin Porcheron, Leigh Clark and Matt Jones (Swansea University)
Heloisa Candello (IBM Research Brazil)
Benjamin R. Cowan and Philip R. Doyle (University College Dublin)
Christine Murad, Jaisie Sin and Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto)
Minha Lee (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Matthew P. Aylett (CereProc)
Joel E. Fischer (University of Nottingham)
Jofish Kaye (Mozilla)


More information is on the workshop website: 
http://speech-interaction.org/CSCW2020/

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Dr Leigh Clark
Lecturer in Computer Science
Computational Foundry, Swansea University, United Kingdom

https://lmhclark.com