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HUMAN-ANIMATED CHARACTERS INTERACTION Workshop
6th September, 2005, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cogsys/workshop/
as part of HCI 2005: The Bigger Picture
The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference
(http://www.hci2005.org/)
*** Submission Deadline: 20th May 2005 ***
Workshop Themes
Session 1: Interaction modalities and Technology for Interaction
Position papers are sought describing the design and evaluation of various
modalities of interaction between humans and animated characters and the
related technology.
Session 2: Graphical Depiction of Synthetic Characters
This session of the workshop will seek submission of research papers that
speculate on the appearance of animated characters.
Session 3: Personality and Emotions
This session will explore how the believability of animated characters can
be enhanced through displaying recognisable personality traits, and focus on
what aspects of interaction can facilitate the development of emotional
bonds.
Session 4: Speech and Language
Position papers describing the state-of-the-art of language understanding,
generation and speech of animated characters will be presented in this
session.
SUBMISSION FORMAT: see http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cogsys/workshop/call.html
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Daniela M. Romano, University of Sheffield, [log in to unmask]
Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, [log in to unmask]
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, [log in to unmask]
Roger Moore, University of Sheffield, [log in to unmask]
Marilyn Walker, University of Sheffield, [log in to unmask]
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Ana Pavia - INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Ahmed BinSubaih - Sheffield University, UK
Catherine Pelachaud - IUT de Montreuil/Universite de Paris 8, France
Daniel Ballin - BT Group, UK
Elena Zudilova - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fiorella de Rosis - Universita' degli studi di Bari, Italy
Nadja De Carolis - Universita' degli studi di Bari, Italy
Patrick Olivier - University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Peter Wallis - ACM - Association of Computing Machinery, Australia
Ron Cole - University of Colorado, US
Steve Maddock - University of Sheffield, UK
Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy - University College London, UK
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