Website: https://sites.google.com/mit.edu/mcapnd2023

Submission deadline: July 23rd, 2023

Submission platform: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/ICMI/2023/MCAPND (accepted papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library)


Dear colleagues,

The International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational Agents for Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders is now accepting submissions. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) on 9th-13th October 2023 in Paris. We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of multimodal conversational agents for individuals with NDD to foster a multidisciplinary discourse on the latest research, technologies, and applications in the field. More info can be found on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/mit.edu/mcapnd2023

We hope this workshop will be a venue for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share findings, and identify future research directions.
We look forward to your participation!

Best regards,
The organization committee
(Fabio Catania - MIT
Tanya Talkar - MIT and Harvard University
Franca Garzotto - Politecnico di Milano
Satrajit Ghosh - MIT and Harvard University
Thomas Quatieri - MIT and Harvard University
Benjamin Cowan - University College Dublin)


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Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Design and development of multimodal conversational agents for individuals with NDD
-Evaluating the effectiveness of these systems in real-world settings
-Understanding the specific needs of individuals with NDD and tailoring the systems accordingly
-Use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence in the development of these systems
-Voice analysis and perception
-Social and ethical implications of using these systems

Submission
The deadline for submitting papers is July 23rd, 2023.
For online paper submissions, please click on the following link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/ICMI/2023/MCAPND
All papers submitted to the workshop should follow the same guidelines as papers published in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI conference:
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/
We accept two different paper formats: long paper (up to 14 pages) and short paper (up to 7 pages). Papers should be anonymous, and authors should not include any identifiable information in the paper, including acknowledgments and references.

Review
All submissions will be double-blindly peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.

Publication
Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceeding, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.