Call for Papers

Spoken Dialogue Systems have been a hot topic of discussion in a research community for the last two decades. They are an inalienable part of Human-Computer Interaction, and allow the integration of Artificial Intelligence systems in our everyday lives smoothly and naturally, through an easy, human-like communication. Pervasive Computing technologies can contact the user at a close level as well as be insensibly integrated into the environment, providing spatially distributed information. Being a part of the smart environment, each smart device serves as a mini personal assistant and requires an ability to interact with the user to be able to be more adaptive, user-friendly and effective.

While both topics have recently been an interest of researchers, questions of integration between pervasive computing and spoken dialogue systems have been discussed within each community. The Interdisciplinary potential of both fields has not yet been investigated in detail. A more active cooperation between both communities may open the way for more powerful and user friendly Pervasive Computing Systems. The proposed workshop will help to explore possible challenges and suggestions to progress them. We aim to create the first and unique venue for discussion and collaboration between experts from these disciplines.

Topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Use of spoken dialogue systems in pervasive computing environment
• Experimental design of spoken dialogue systems for pervasive computing
• Integration of spoken dialogue system into smart environments
• Dialogue management between smart environment and user
• User-centered smart environment adaptation
• Perspective future applications of spoken dialogue systems in pervasive computing
• Analysis of sensing data collected with IoT and/or smart devices for dialogue systems
• Pervasive sensing platform/framework for spoken dialogue systems
• Context recognition and application methodology for spoken dialogue systems
• User studies and evaluation in the wild of pervasive spoken dialogue systems
• Investigation of Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) in smart environments
• Dialogue systems in the public space (e.g. interactive digital signage)
• Dialogue and recommendation for guidance systems

Submission Guidelines

Paper Template

IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings

Paper format

double-column, 10-pt font, A4-size paper

Page limitation

6 pages

(The authors will be able to buy an additional page for the camera-ready version)

Submission page

EDAS

NOTE

• Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only).
• Each accepted workshop paper must be presented at the PerDial 2019 workshop.
• Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due

November 10Extended: December 10, 2018 (23:59 AoE)

Acceptance Notification

December 22Extended: December 31, 2018

Camera-Ready Due

January 11, 2019

Accepted Papers & Program

Opening __ Friday, March 15 8:40 - 8:45

Chair: Dmitrii Fedotov (Ulm University, Germany & ITMO University, Russia), Yuki Matsuda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Seesion 1 __ Friday, March 15 8:45 - 10:00

Chair: Alexey A. Karpov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

• Learning Natural Language Understanding Systems from Unaligned Labels for Voice Command in Smart Homes Anastasia Mishakova (Université Grenoble Alpes, France); François Portet (Laboratory LIG, UMR CNRS/INPG/UJF 5217, Team GETALP, France); Thierry Desot (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, France); Michel Vacher (CNRS & LIG Laboratory, France)
• Emotion Recognition Based Preference Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems Niklas Rach (Ulm University, Germany); Klaus Weber (Augsburg University, Germany); Annalena Aicher (Ulm University, Germany); Florian Lingenfelser (Augsburg University, Germany); Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany); Wolfgang Minker (University of Ulm, Germany)
• Strategy of the Negative Sampling for Training Retrieval-Based Dialogue Systems Aigul Nugmanova (ITMO University & Speech Technology Center, Russia); Andrei Smirnov (Speech Technology Center, Russia); Galina Lavrentyeva and Irina Chernykh (STC-innovations, ITMO University, Russia)

Keynote __ Friday, March 15 10:30 - 11:00

Chair: Dmitrii Fedotov (Ulm University, Germany & ITMO University, Russia)

Seesion 2 __ Friday, March 15 11:05 - 11:55

Chair: Yuki Matsuda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

• From Smart to Personal Environment: Integrating Emotion Recognition into Smart Houses Dmitrii Fedotov (Ulm University, Germany & ITMO University, Russia); Yuki Matsuda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Wolfgang Minker (University of Ulm, Germany)
• Human-Robot Interaction with Smart Shopping Trolley Using Sign Language: Data Сollection Denis Ivanko, Dmitry Ryumin, Alexandr Axyonov and Alexey A. Karpov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia); Milos Zelezny (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic); Ildar Kagirov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Closing __ Friday, March 15 11:55 - 12:00

Chair: Dmitrii Fedotov (Ulm University, Germany & ITMO University, Russia), Yuki Matsuda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Presentation Guideline

• Form: Oral Presentation
• Time: Presentation (20 min) & Question and discussion (5 min)
• Note: At your presentation, you can use a projector. As a connector, VGA is only available.

Organizers

Program Committee (*sorted by family name)

• Prof. Yutaka ArakawaNara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Prof. Nick CampbellTrinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Dr. Ryuichiro HigashinakaNTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Japan
• Prof. Naoya IsoyamaKobe University, Japan
• Prof. Kristiina JokinenUniversity of Helsinki, Finland
• Prof. Oliver JokischHochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL), Germany
• Prof. Alexey KarpovSt. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russia
• Prof. Heysem KayaBoğaziçi University, Turkey
• Prof. Kazunori KomataniOsaka University, Japan
• Prof. Yuri MatveevITMO University, Russia
• Prof. Wolfgang MinkerUlm University, Germany
• Dr. Mikio NakanoHonda Research Institute Japan, Japan
• Dr. Olga PerepelkinaNeurodatalab LLC, USA
• Prof. Keiichi YasumotoNara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Prof. Koichiro YoshinoNara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Prof. Takashi YoshinoWakayama University, Japan

Organizing Committee

• M.Sc. Dmitrii FedotovUlm University, Germany
• M.Eng. Yuki MatsudaNara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Contact

matsuda.yuki.mr3@is.naist.jp