Three SSPNet researchers (Catherine Pelachaud, Dirk Heylen and Alessandro Vinciarelli) have been invited to give lectures at the 3rd International Training School organized by COST 2102 (Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication). The title of the school is “Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues” and its mission is stated as follows by the organizer Anna Esposito:
“The school will afford a change of perspective in verbal and nonverbal communication, where the research focus moves from “communicative tools” to “communicative instances” and asks for investigations that take into account the environment and the context in which the communicative acts take place. The consequences in Information Communication Technology (ICT) research should bring to the development of instantiated interactive dialogue systems and instantiated intelligent avatars able to act by exploiting contextual and environmental signals and process them by combining previous experience (memory) adapted to the problem instance. The school will further artificial cognitive research since it will create a bridge between the most recent research in multimodal communication (taking into account gestures, emotions, social signal processing, etc.) and models of computation that exploit these signals and are aware of the context in which these signals are expressed. Human behaviour exploits this information and adapts. Artificial cognitive system models must account of this human ability for implementing a more friendly and emotionally colored human machine interaction.”
The school will take place between March 15 and 19, 2010 at the Unversity of Caserta. More information is available at the school site: http://www.iiassvietri.it/school_2009/index_2009.htm
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