[CFP] Workshop COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL AGENTS at IAT-06

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at the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent
Agent Technology (IAT-06)

Workshop Description
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Building on the approaches developed so far, this workshop focuses
on new methods and models to describe and implement communication
between human and artificial agents, in all forms and on all levels.
The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to bridge the gap between the
richness, complexity and expressiveness of human communication, and
the (in)ability of artificial agents to deal with it and to (inter)act
adequately within cooperation with humans.

Topic Areas
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     * models of communicative behaviour, communication languages
     * natural language processing, interpretation by agents
     * dialogue structures
     * action representation, action theory, action ontology
     * knowledge representation, ontologies
     * physical, spatial, temporal and semantic contexts
     * gestures and facial expressions
     * multi-modal communication
     * speech and speech characteristics in communication
     * cooperative behaviour, negotiation, judgement
     * social norms and roles, social behaviours, social interaction
     * learning of interactive behaviours,
     * learning in interactions, imitation learning
     * distant communication, wireless communication

Paper Submission
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     * Full papers can have up to 4 pages (plus one page for a fee)

Important Dates
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     * July 30th, 2006: Due date for full paper submission
     * September 11th, 2006: Notification of acceptance
     * September 29th, 2006: Submission of camera-ready version
     * December 18th, 2006: Workshop (half day)

Workshop Chair and Organization
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     Dr. Christel Kemke, University of Manitoba, Canada
     e-mail: ckemke@cs.umanitoba.ca

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For more information on the workshop see:
     http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/IAT06Workshop/workshop.html

IAT-06 conference home page:
     http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/

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