Description of the Symposium

The workshop will be of interest to anyone studying multimodal communication, and deal with theoretical as well as practical research issues related to multimodal communication. In particular, we would like to address the question of the extent to which insights coming from human communication can be used to design and build good multimodal applications.

Venue

The symposium will take place at the hotel and conference centre Marienlyst, situated north of Copenhagen on the coast. Marienlyst can be easily reached by train from Kastrup, the airport of Copenhagen, or from the Copenhagen central station. Take the train to Helsingør, and from there either change trains to Marienlyst (the station is right by the hotel) or get a taxi. The whole trip takes about an hour.

The address of the hotel is:

Hotel Marienlyst A/S
Ndr. Strandvej 2
3000 Helsingør
Phone: +45 4921 4000
Fax: +45 4921 4900

Registration and funding

• • Participation in the symposium will be supported financially by the MUMIN network. This means that accommodation (night between September 25-26) and meals during the conference are offered by the network. Travelling expenses, on the other hand, will not be refunded. The network can support up to 50 participants. The symposium is open to everybody, however the MUMIN institutions will be given preference.
    
    To register for the symposium, send an email to the organisers at cst@cst.dk not later than August 15.
    Please indicate: the name of your institution whether you are a vegetarian (or other constraints regarding food) Your attendance will be confirmed when the registration deadline has expired.

Invited speakers

Professor Mark Knapp, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Texas: "Telling lies: a multimodal perspective".

Professor Elisabeth André, Augsburg University: "From simulated dialogues to interactive performances".

Topics

• Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents
• Human interaction
• Mediated human interaction in multimodal media
• Dialogue management for multimodal communication
• Investigations on multimodal interaction 
• Multimodal corpora
• Gestures and their interpretation
• Modality fusion
• Methods for the development of multimodal dialogue systems
• Development and maintenance of shared knowledge sources in multimodal applications
• Techniques for automatic construction of ontologies for multimodal systems
• Investigations of how a domain ontology can be used by the different modules in a multimodal dialogue system
• Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal systems 
• Evaluation methods for multimodal systems

Submissions

Submissions are closed.

Important dates

Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2003

Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2003

Camera ready version: July 31, 2003

Registration: August 15, 2003

Workshop: September 25-26, 2003

Programme Committee

Organising Committee

Papers