Venue

RO-MAN 2023:

Location: Haeundaehaebyeon-ro, (Jung-dong), Haeundae-gu, Busan, Korea

Dates: August 28-31st, 2023 

MP-Cosin Workshop: 

Location: Room E (Miami, 2F)

Date: August 31st, 2023

Time: 13:10~16:10

ABout

This workshop aims to gather researchers from the field of speech technology, dialogue systems, and human-robot interaction to discuss the challenges, experiences and future directions for context-aware spoken dialogue in human-robot interaction. 

Speech stands out as the most natural way to interact with human-centred technology, either as command-driven exchanges or, more recently, through dialogue interactions. However, as these interactions take place in less controlled settings, the range of challenges that need to be addressed steadily increases. Challenges include integrating the embodied characteristics of a robot to enhance the interaction outside of the speech modality, the correct interpretation of multimodal features, like body language and facial expressions, that synchronise with changes in the dialogue content, as well as an awareness of the environment in which the interaction is taking place and the context (urgency, goal, justification) of the exchange. 

On this point, this workshop proposes to address context-awareness as a dynamically emerging phenomenon that is constantly changing on a moment-by-moment basis, as people and robots contribute turns to the interaction. While communities working on spoken dialogue systems (SDS), conversation analysis (CA), and conversational user interfaces (CUI) have worked with this nuanced notion of awareness, it needs to be developed for robotics and human-robot interaction, specifically paying attention to the embodiment of robots.

Participants will take part in presentations of novel ideas and preliminary experimental results, as well as attend keynotes from leading figures of these interdisciplinary fields. 

speakers

As confirmed by the conference organization, the workshop will take place at Room E (Miami, 2F) from 13:10~16:10.