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
