UM05 Workshop on 'Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors'

July 25, 2005

Program

8.30 – 8.40 Short Presentation of Organizers

Session 1. Natural language

8.40 – 9.00 John A. Bateman and Cécile L.Paris: Adaptation to affective factors. Architectural impacts for natural language generation and dialogue.

9.00 – 9.30 Carsten Brockmann, Amy Isard, Jon Oberlander and Michael White: Modelling alignment for affective dialogue.

9.30 – 10.00 Nancy Green: Affective factors in generation of tailored genomic information.

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 – 11.15 Invited Speech:

Marc Schroeder and Roddie Cowie: Toward emotion-sensitive mulitmodal interfaces. The challenge of the European Network of Excellence HUMANE.

Session 2. Virtual Agents

11.15 – 11.45 Addolorata Cavalluzzi, Fiorella de Rosis, Irene Mazzotta and Nicole Novielli: Modeling the user attitude towards an ECA

11.45 – 12.05 Agneta Gulz and Magnus Haake: Social and visual style in virtual pedagogical agents.

12.05 – 12.20 John Harpur, Dermot Madden and Maria Lawlor: Attachment theory and affective user models

12.20 – 13.30 Lunch

Session 3. Other media

13.30 – 14.00 Andrea Kleinsmith, Tsuyoshi Fushimi and Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze: An incremental and interactive affective posture recognition system.

14.00 – 14.30 Margeritta Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Christian Mueller and Anthony Jameson: Recognition of time pressure via physiological sensors: is the user motion a help or a hindrance?

14.30 – 15.00 Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Christian Hacker, Elmar Noeth and Heirich Nieman: Private emotions vs socal interaction. Towards new dimensions in research on emotions.

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

Session 4. Applications

15.30 – 16.00 Samuel Alexander, Stephen Hill and Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh: How do human tutors adapt to affective state?

16.00 – 16.20 Yasmin Hernàndez, Julieta Noguez, L. Enrique Sucar and Gustavo Arroyo-Figueroa: An affective model for semi-open learning environments.

16.20 – 16.40 Corinne Ribert-Van De Weerdt and Vincent Grosjean: Determinants od emotions in a call centre.

16.40 – 17.00 Dimitrios Vogiatzis, Amilia Tzanavari, Symeon Retalis and Michalinos Zembylas: Clustering the affective aspects of web users

17.0 Panel Discussion on “Perspectives of Affective Computing”.

Joshua Hurwitz, Motorola Labs, USA; Nuria Oliver, Microsoft Research, USA; Benjamin Reaves, Toyota Info Technology Center, USA; Marc Schroeder, DFKI, Ge.

17.45 Workshop Closure