The 1st Nordic Symposium on
MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION
25-26 September, 2003, Copenhagen

Symposium Programme

Thursday 25 September

10.30 Registration and coffee
11.00-11.15 Welcome by the organisers
11.15-12.15 Invited speaker:
Prof Elisabeth André, Augsburg University
From Simulated Dialogues to Interactive Performances
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.00 Allwood and Cerrato
A study of gestural feedback expressions
14.00-14.30 Qvarfordt
Spoken feedback in multimodal interaction: effects on anthropomorphism and qualities in interaction
14.30-15.00 Rantanen
Gestures, Body Language, and Their interaction in interaction material to be found in English fiction
15.00-15.30 Cerrato and Skhiri
Quantifying gestures in face-to-face human dialogues
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.30 Johansson
MadFilm - a Multimodal Approach to Handle Search and Organizarion in a Movie Recommendation System
16.30-17.00 Habel
Towards the Generation of Multimodal Route Instructions
17.00-17.30 Hofs, op den Akker and Nijholt
A Generic Architecture and Dialogue Model for Multimodal Interaction
17.30-18.00 Padilha and Carletta
Nonverbal bejaviour improving a simulation of small group discussion
18.00-19.00 Posters and drinks:
Hemsen
Designing a multimodal dialogue system for mobile phones
Warakagoda, Knudsen and Lium
Implementation of Simultaneous Coordinated Multimodality for Mobile Terminals
Ahlsen
Communicative contributions and multimodality
Månsson
The relation between gestures and semantic processes
19.30 Dinner
9.00-10.00 Invited speaker:
Prof Mark Knapp, University of Texas
Telling lies: a multimodal perspective
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.00 Bernsen, Dybkjær and Kolodnytsky
The NITE Workbench for Annotating Natural Interactive Behaviour
11.00-11.30 Evreinova and Evreinov
Typing Training System on Touch Screen with Color Blinking Imaging
11.30-12.00 Spakov, Evreinova and Evreinov
Psudo-Graphic Typeface: Design and Evaluation
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Invited speaker:
Stéphanie Buisine, LIMSI-CNRS
Experimental Evaluation of Multimodal Interfaces based on Multimodal Corpora Analysis
14.00-14.30 Woltjer
Adaptive Multi-Modal Interfaces - A Composite Research Field
14.30-15.00 Chen and Ohlsson
Multimodal Interfaces for UAV-Control and Communications
15.00-15.30 Coffee and demos
15.30-16.00 Malaia
Online Affiliation Formation
16.00-16.30 Jokinen and Raike
Multimodality-technology, visions and demands for the future