[iva] 2nd Call for Papers - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (deadline extended)

[Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann]

Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children
https://aichildinteraction.github.io/

February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format)
Paper Submission Deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended)
Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23

Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or 
aichildinteraction at gmail.com

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In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into 
multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to 
discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond 
just processing child speech. We are interested in discussing approaches 
to collecting and annotating datasets involving child speech, intent 
classification in child speech, designing dialogue flow with artificial 
agents that primarily interact with children, as well as repair 
strategies, active listening behavior, and other aspects of dialogue 
modeling. Moreover, multiparty conversations involving several children, 
children, and their adult caregivers or several artificial agents are of 
particular interest to this workshop.

Acknowledging the early-stage nature of research in this area, the 
workshop will invite short position papers as contributions. In addition 
to selected talks that will be invited based on the submitted papers, we 
will host roundtable discussions allowing attendees to discuss ideas, 
share challenges they have faced, and highlight ideas for future research. 


## Topics of Interest
The workshop welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics 
including, but not limited to:
Natural Language Understanding of Child Speech 
Dialogue Modeling of Child-Agent, Child-Robot, Child-Child, and 
Child-Adult Speech 
Conversational Flow and Repair in Dialogue with Children 
Multiparty-Interaction Involving Children 
Multimodal Processing of Child Interactions 
Automatic Speech Recognition of Child Speech 
Evaluating Child Interactions with Artificial Agents/Robots
Challenges in Designing Interactions for Children 
Datasets of Child-Child, Child-Adult, or Child-Agent/Robot Interaction
Ethics and Responsible AI for Child-Agent/Robot Interaction
Related Topics


## Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended)
- Author Notification deadline: February 1st, 2023
- Workshop: February 21st, 2023 (morning session)


## Submission Guidelines
We invite short position papers of 3-4 pages (plus additional pages for 
references and appendices without page limitation), including work in 
progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case 
studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research in language-based AI 
agent interactions with children. Recently submitted or published papers 
are welcome to be submitted to this workshop if they are highly relevant 
to the topic of the workshop. Please select the appropriate track during 
the EasyChair submission to mark the submission accordingly.

Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and 
technical soundness.
Submissions do not need to be anonymized for review. All manuscripts 
must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format 
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23

Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. However, 
papers are still considered non-archival and can be submitted to other 
conferences.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper during 
the workshop in the form of a short talk, which can either be given in 
person in Los Angeles, USA, or virtually via Zoom.

Authors should use the official IWSDS template:
Latex Style and Template: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnzjvTlIVEsdPb2IZXbzxU8WRJj3mLiJ
Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/djcrwzgrdjvj
Word Template: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WmO9iLvJtO0cH1E0VSC1bPsC0vRDpzbd


## Contact
If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group 
https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an 
e-mail to aichildinteraction at gmail.com