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The 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication (6-8 August 2014)

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  • Research Training Course Pointing to Gestures

Topics

Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited to:

  • technologies for tracking human multimodal behaviors, especially gesturing
  • multimodal interpretation and generation
    • gestures and other modalities as communicative signals in human-human and human-robot interaction
    • gestures and other modalities in interpreting user’s intentions, attitude, and emotions
  • combination of gesture signals with other modalities
    • speech and gesture synchrony
  • representation of multimodal signals
  • empirical studies of human multimodal behavior
  • multimodal communication in dyads and multiparty conversations
  • gesture-based intelligent user interfaces, virtual agents and human-robot interaction
    • evaluation and design issues in multimodal interfaces
  • Speech, gestures and signs in human communication
  • Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour
  • Multimodality aspects of language acquisition
  • Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents
  • Multimodal systems for sign language users
  • Multimodal health communication
  • Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)
  • Multimodal dialogue systems
  • Multimodal corpora
  • Sign language corpora
  • Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora
  • Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction
  • Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data
  • Evaluation methods for multimodal systems

This event has been supported by the Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics of the University of Tartu; Department of Computer Science; Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics; Faculty of Philosophy; The ETIS project MINT (ETF8958); European Regional Development Fund through the Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS

  • Institute of Computer Science
  • Faculty of Science and Technology
  • University of Tartu
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