WOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction

Satellite Event of INTERSPEECH 2012

September 14-15, 2012

Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

http://www.wocci.org/
http://interspeech2012.org/SatelliteWorkshops.html
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=22624&copyownerid=21284

!!! Deadline for full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012 !!!

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces.

Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centered computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core well-being of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

Technical Scope:

Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the Workshop.
The technical scope of the Workshop includes, but it is not limited to:

Speech Interfaces:
- acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech
- discourse analysis of spoken language in child-machine interaction
- age-dependent characteristics of spoken language
- automatic speech recognition for children and spoken dialogue systems

Multi-Modality and Robotics:
- multi-modal child-machine interaction
- multi-modal input and output interfaces
- including robotic interfaces
- intrusive, non-intrusive devices for environmental data processing
- pen or gesture/visual interfaces

User Modelling:
- user modelling and adaptation
- usability studies accounting for age preferences in child-machine interaction

Cognitive Models:
- internal learning models
- personality types
- user-centered and participatory design

Application Areas:
- diagnostic tools and training systems for child-related medical conditions such as autism and learning and attention disorders
- educational software
- gaming interfaces.

The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.

Important Dates:

Full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012
Final paper submission and authors' registration: July 31, 2012
Workshop: September 14-15, 2012

Organizing Committee:

Izhak Shafran, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Kay Berkling, Inline GmbH, Germany
Stefan Steidl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Program Committee:

Kay Berkling, Inline GmbH, Germany
Justine Cassell, Northwestern University, USA
Diego Giuliani, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
John Hansen, University of Texas, USA
Takayuki Kanda, ATR, Japan
Hiromichi Kawanami, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, PRC
Alex Potamianos, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
Elmar Nöth, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Rupal Patel, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Martin Russell, University of Birmingham, UK
Izhak Shafran, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Stefan Steidl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Serdar Yildirim, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey