[iva] Final Call for Participation - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (Registration now open)

[Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann]

# Final Call for Participation

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

February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format)
Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration
Virtual participation is free!

Program: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule
Papers: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission
Keynotes: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html

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. The first part of the workshop will be 
concerned with conversational agents for child learning with four short 
presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. After a coffee break, 
the workshop will then focus on collecting data and practical and 
ethical considerations when building datasets involving children.

We invite all researchers interested in AI-Child Interaction independent 
of their background and their previous experience with speech-based 
interaction to participate in the workshop.

## Accepted Papers
A list of accepted papers including their PDFs can be found here: 
https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission
The papers will remain on the website available to everyone even after 
the workshop has concluded


## Schedule
An overview of the schedule is available on our website (all times are 
PST - UTC-8): https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule
In addition to two keynote presentations, the first by Prof. Khiet 
Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands, and the second by Prof. 
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, and seven 
short paper presentations, we will host two roundtable discussion 
sessions. These are interactive sessions in which we can dive deeper 
into the topics covered by our speakers and we welcome all participants 
to contribute with questions and statements.

More information about the keynote speakers and their talks can be found 
here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html

## Registration
If you would like to attend our workshop, please register using the 
IWSDS registration website: 
https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration

There are three types of registration:
(i) If you are already registered for the IWSDS main conference 
(in-person or virtual), then your workshop participation is already 
covered. There is no need for any extra registration.
(ii) If you would like to attend the workshop in person without 
registering for the main conference, please choose "In-Person Workshop 
Only" non-student (100 USD) or student (50 USD) options towards the end 
of the registration form.
(iii) Virtual registration is completely free of charge! Please use the 
same link and select the "Virtual Workshop Only - Non-students and 
students" option.

We will send registered participants information about in-person and 
virtual participation as well as the Link to the Zoom Webinar the day 
before the workshop.


## 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