This workshop will bring both established and new researchers together to discuss the development,
implementation and evaluation of AUI systems, the current AUI state-of-the-art and to create a
vision for the future of AUI interface technology.
This workshop is one in a series, URLs for these workshops can be found on
http://www.vhml.org/workshops/.
The Workshop Organisers would welcome the submission
of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects
from the Major Topic areas.
These include (but are not limited to)
- AUI-user interaction paradigms.
- AUIs for Smart Environments.
- The role of AUIs in Smart Environments.
- Evaluation / case studies of AUIs as interfaces.
- AUI interface applications - shop assistants, presentation agents for the WWW, email
interfaces, Talking Heads, interfaces on the Web, etc.
- Factors which influence user acceptance and believability, i.e. the use of cartoon-like
characters vs. photo-realism.
- Conversational skills of AUIs - dialogue management and knowledge bases.
- AUI directing and specification languages - controlling of emotions, speech intonation, facial and
body behaviour, Personality models, Text to Speech systems .
- AUI modelling / rendering
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The full day workshop will feature a mix of paper presentations, demonstrations, and discussion rounds.
The presentations should cover one of the several academic or industrial themes of the workshop and should be oriented toward:
- Description and/or evaluation of AUI interface systems or Smart Environments with
- Pointers, such as on-line demos or videos, to actual working examples that demonstrate their usage and practicality.
- Pointers to evaluation results, eg, AUI's believability, engagement, affect, use within a Smart Environment.
- Design decisions for AUI specifications or languages that control the AUI.
- Practical knowledge from evaluation of robust academic or commercial systems. Discussing the link between the targeted audience and actual outcomes of the system.
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We especially invite papers/presentations/demonstrations of industrial AUI research and/or commercial AUI systems
as well as the application of AUIs to Smart Environments.
We strongly encourage you to demonstrate your work and to provide URLs to permanent web sites that contain examples of your system.
To give us time to organize the technical requirements, if you are to demonstrate your system, we must be notified before
. Contact us for details at: raytrace@vhml.org
The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion of:
- Important issues raised within presentations,
- A visionary glimpse of / plan for the future for AUIs.
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At the end of the workshop, participants should have a broad understanding of the
differing technologies involved in the production, development and directing of
AUI systems and applications.
They will have seen several AUI systems and will understand the problems associated with the technology.
They will have contributed, through discussion, to the future development of individual AUI interfaces within
the global context. They will also become part of a network of AUI researchers and practitioners.
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