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Call for Contributions
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ANIMATING EXPRESSIVE CHARACTERS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Symposium of the AISB'02 Convention
Imperial College, London, UK, 2nd - 5th April, 2002
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc/aecsi02
** Submission Deadline approaching!!: January 9, 2002 **
SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION:
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The ability to express and recognise emotions is a fundamental aspect
of social interaction. The importance of endowing artefacts (for
example synthetic characters or robots) with these capabilities is
nowadays widely acknowledged in different research areas such as
affective computing, socially intelligent agents, computer animation,
or virtual environments. Researchers in all these areas are however
confronted with the problem of how to make the emotional displays of
artefacts and characters believable and acceptable to humans. This can
involve not only generating appropriate expressions and behavioural
displays - explored in animated film for many years - but also
endowing artefacts with underlying models of personality and emotions
that support the coherence and autonomy of their emotional displays
and interactions.
Thus this symposium concerns 'animation' not only from a graphical
perspective, but more generally in the human sense: making characters
'life-like', externally but also 'internally': giving them an
'anima'. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers
from different disciplines (including psychology, animal behaviour,
the arts, computer graphics and animation as well as those mentioned
above) to reflect on this common problem from different perspectives
and to gain new insights from this multi-disciplinary feedback.
Keynote speakers from different disciplines will appear at the
workshop, including (so far):
- Bruce Blumberg (MIT Media Lab, USA)
- Mike Milne (Framestore, UK)
- Thomas Wehrle and Susanne Kaiser (GIL and Geneva Emotion Research
Group, University of Geneva, CH)
SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS:
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Ruth Aylett Lola Canamero
Centre for Virtual Environments Dept. of Computer Science
University of Salford, UK University of Hertfordshire, UK
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Fax: +44-(0)161-295-2925 Phone +44-(0)1707-284308
Phone: +44-(0)161-295-2916 Fax: +44-(0)1707-284303
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
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Potential participants who would wish to present their work at the
symposium (poster, demo, or oral presentation) should submit an
extended abstract of no more than 2500 words. Contributions should
describe work in progress, completed work, positions, or give insight
into the current state or perspectives of research in the topic of the
symposium. All submissions must include: title, author(s) name(s),
affiliation(s), mailing and electronic addresses, and telephone and
fax numbers.
The abstracts submission deadline for this symposium is *9th January,
2002*.
Extended abstracts of no more than 2500 words should be sent by e-mail
(ASCII or URL from which your contribution can be downloaded are
preferred; otherwise attached PDF, UNIX-compatible postscript, or RTF
file) to both organisers:
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Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to contribute a paper to
the symposium proceedings, edited by the AISB Society. The deadline
for camera-ready papers is 7th March, 2002 (hard deadline!).
The organisers are also exploring the possibility of preparing a
post-symposium volume (with John Benjamins Publishing Co., Advances in
Consciousness Research Series) that would include a selection of
papers from the symposium.
Since contributions will be evaluated on the basis of extended
abstracts, it is very important that authors make very clear why and
how their contribution is relevant to the symposium. Abstracts should
explain clearly:
- What problem you are trying to address.
- Why this is an interesting problem, and how and why it is relevant
to the theme of the symposium.
- What has been tried before (in your community, in different
communities) and why/how your contribution is better/different/more
original.
- How it will help others/contribute to/enrich research or
applications having to do with the animation of expressive characters
for social interactions.
- Some results/proof/hint it works (how can your work be evaluated?).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
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Elisabeth Andre, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Yasmine Arafa, Imperial College, UK
Ruth Aylett, University of Salford, UK
Daniel Ballin, BTExact Technologies, Radical Multimedia Lab, UK
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT, USA
Paul Brna, University of Leeds, UK
Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Fiorella De Rosis, University of Bari, Italy
Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK
Ana Paiva, INESC, Portugal
Catherine Pelachaud, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Paolo Petta, OEFAI, Austria
John Vince, Bournemouth University, UK
Thomas Wehrle, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Adrian Woolard, BBC Imagineering, UK
IMPORTANT DATES:
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- 9th JANUARY, 2002: Submissions (extended abstracts) due
- 11th FEBRUARY, 2002: Notification to authors
- 7th March, 2002: Camera-ready papers due
- 2nd - 5th APRIL, 2002: AISB'02 Convention dates. The symposium
will run two days within that slot, probably 4-5 April (to be
confirmed).
RELATED EVENTS:
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ACE 2002, Agent Construction and Emotions, A Symposium at the 16th
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2002), Vienna,
Austria, April 2-5, 2002 (likely date of the symposium: April 2).
URL: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~paolo/conf/ace2002
Emotion, Evolution and Rationality, interdisciplinary
conference hosted by the Philosophy Department at King's College
London, Saturday 27 April - Sunday 28 April, 2002.
URL: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ip/nevensesardic/conference.html
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