JMUI 2011 - Special Issue of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces: Interacting with Embodied Conversational Agents (JMUI 2011)

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Category JMUI 2011

Deadline: September 26, 2010 | Date: May 11, 2011

Venue/Country: Call for Articles, Tonga

Updated: 2010-07-31 12:54:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

andreinformatik.uni-augsburg.de

Marc Cavazza, School of Computing, University of Teesside, UK; m.o.cavazzatees.ac.uk

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS ? LTCI, Télécom ParisTech, France;

Catherine.Pelachaudtelecom-paristech.fr

OVERVIEW:

Despite advances in enhancing the expressivity of embodied

conversational agents (ECAs), communication with ECAs remains an

unnatural experience due to an often encountered asymmetry in

communication channels, in which user input modalities tend to be less

sophisticated due to the limitation of input processing. This is

becoming a limiting factor as virtual actors become an essential element

of computer games, intelligent tutoring systems and new media such as

Interactive Storytelling. Furthermore, user-agent communication should

be properly situated in the context of the application at hand rather

than isolated as a laboratory experiment. In addition, interaction with

ECAs implicitly creates a social environment which requires mechanisms

for recognizing the user’s affective, attentive and social cues. This

special issue will provide the opportunity to present research on the

integration of speech, vision and other non-verbal sensors into an ECA's

conversational model. We specifically welcome research taking place

within realistic scenarios or applications (entertainment, tutoring

systems, persuasive systems, Interactive Narrative).

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for paper submission: 26th November 2010

- Notification of acceptance: 10th January 2011

- Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 25th February 2011

- Publication date: April/May 2011

We invite submissions of research papers that consider at least one

input channel to ECAs and address the following areas (but not limited to):

? Integration of speech, vision and other sensor-based technologies in

dialogue understanding for ECAs

? Perception and interpretation of affective, social and attentive cues

from users during human-agent dialogue

? Perception-based models of grounding and turn-taking

? Alignment and synchrony of perceptive and expressive behaviors in

human-agent dialogue

? Natural language dialogue with ECAs in augmented and mixed realities

? Applications that emulate characteristics of human-agent dialogue,

such as games and interactive storytelling

? Empirical studies that explore the potential benefits of speech,

vision and other sensor-based technologies for human-agent-communication

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:

Submissions should be 8 to 12 pages long and must be written in English.

Formatting instructions and templates are available on: http://www.jmui.org

Authors should register and upload their submission on the following

website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmui/

During the submission process, please select “SI (Special Issue) -

Interacting ECAs” as article type.

Authors are encouraged to send to: andreinformatik.uni-augsburg.de a

brief email indicating their intention to participate as soon as

possible, including their contact information and the topic they intend

to address in their submissions.

The Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces is a publication of

OpenInterface (www.openinterface.org)

Editor in Chief: Jean-Claude Martin

Founding Editor: Benoit Macq

More information on www.springer.com/12193 or www.jmui.org