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                        ***HAI 2016 Call for Posters and Late-Breaking Papers***
 The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016)
                        Singapore  ~ 4 -7 October 2016
                      Submission Deadline: 16 July 2016
                               www.hai2016.org
           Submission Site: http://precisionconference.com/~hai/
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The Fourth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2016,
in co-operation with ACM SIGCHI) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary
venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results
that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including
robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication.
The theme for HAI 2016 is "Machine learning methods and multimodal interfaces
to achieve social intelligence in robots, avatars, and virtual characters".
The conference seeks contributions from a broad range of fields spanning
engineering, computer science, psychology and sociology, and will cover
diverse topics, including: human-robot interaction, affective computing,
computer-supported collaborative work, gaming and serious games, artificial
intelligence, and more.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
- designs  and studies of Human-Agent Interaction, including quantitative
  and qualitative results
- theoretical models of Human-Agent Interaction
- technological advances in Human-Agent Interaction
- impacts of embodiment (e.g., physical vs digital, human vs animal-like)
- experimental methods for Human-Agent Interaction
- character and avatar design in video games
- agents in social networks

This includes more targeted results that have implications to the broader
human-agent interaction community:
- human-robot interaction
- human-virtual agent interaction
- interaction with smart homes and smart cars
- distributed groupware where people have remote embodiments and representations
- and more!


This year in parallel with the submission of  full papers, we encourage the submission of
short papers  and posters with late-breaking results,  preliminary, and position papers 
with high impact studies.

Each accepted submission will be presented in  a 2 minutes oral spotlight and participate 
in a poster session. Depending on logistics and submissions quality, selected contributions 
may be presented during the conference as 15 min short talks.

All will be be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Full details of the call for the
submission types can be found at www.hai2016.org/submission


***Important Dates***
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*Poster and Late-breaking Submission* (2-4 pages)
16 July 2016: Deadline for submission of posters
27 July 2016: Notification of acceptance of posters
4 August 2016: Final camera-ready papers due


***Submission and Reviewing***
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HAI 2016 will accept ONLY online submission of PDF files in the ACM SIGCHI
format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform). ACM copyright area
should be left blank. Please visit the submission page www.hai2016.org/sub
mission/ for more details on preparations for paper submission.

Papers will be evaluated by internationally renown reviewers on the basis of research 
originality, impact, excellence, significance and relevance to HAI.

***Organising Committee***
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* Honorary Chair:
  Haizhou Li, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

* General Co-Chairs:
  Wei Yun Yau, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Takashi Omori, Tamagawa University, Japan

* Advisory Board:
  Sonia Chernova, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK
  Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
  Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Minho Lee, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  Yukie Nagai, University of Osaka, Japan
  Tetsuo Ono, Hokkaido University, Japan
  Hyeyoung Park, Kyungpook National University, Korea
  Yugo Takeuchi, Shizuoka University, Japan
  Britta Wrede, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  James Young, University of Manitoba, Canada

* Program Co-Chairs:
  Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore
  Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
  Hirotaka Osawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan

* Finance Co-Chairs:
  Lei Wang, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Rafael Banchs, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

* Local Organization Co-Chairs:
  Minghui Dong, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Zhiyong Huang, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Swee Lan See, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

* Publication Co-Chairs:
  Yugo Hayashi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
  Eng Siong Chng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

* Publicity Co-Chairs:
  Yan Wu,  A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Yanyu Su, Bozhong (Suzhou) Precision Industry Technology Co. Ltd, China

* Awards Co-Chairs:
  Martin Dunn, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
  Ellen Yi-Luen Do, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Ayse Kucukyilmaz, University of Yeditepe, Turkey

* Poster & Tutorial Co-Chairs:
  Dimitri Ognibene, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  Keng Peng Tee, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  
* Workshop & Invited Sessions Co-Chairs:
  Marcelo Ang Jr., National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Ai Ti Aw, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

* Sponsorship Chair:
  Boon Siew Han, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

* Registration Chair:
  Rong Tong,  A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  
* Web Co-Chairs:
  Daniel J. Rea, University of Manitoba, Canada
  Luis Fernando D'Haro Enriquez, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore