Organised by

Luigi Amodio and 
Vittorio Silvestrini 
IDIS-Citta' della Scienza, Naples

Ernesto Burattini 
IC-CNR , Naples 

Cristiano Castelfranchi and
Domenico Parisi
IP-CNR, Rome 

Fiorella de Rosis
University of Bari

Fulvio Marcoz 
Coordinator of the
SIG on Intelligent Interfaces, AI*IA

Patrizia Marti
University of Siena

Eliana Minicozzi
University of Naples 

Coordinated by:

Fiorella de Rosis
and
Eliana Minicozzi

Address questions
to: 

Fiorella de Rosis
Intelligent Interfaces
Department of Informatics
University of Bari
derosis@di.uniba.it

The growing interest for applications of artificial intelligence to art and entertainment originates from the belief that a considerable perspective of development is open to this field by the recent results of theories and techniques about intelligent, social and 'life-like' agents. Two issues contributed, in particular, to improving the simulation of intelligent agents' behaviour: advancement in computer graphics and natural language methods and ability to model, in the agents' mental state, personality traits and dynamically changing emotional factors. This opened new perspectives to application fields such as virtual theater, conversational systems and human-like interface agents. These new fields now add to other fields, with a more consolidated experience, such as music or cartoons design support.

 The opportunity for this Workshop is offered by the presence, in Italy, of a very distinguished expert in this field: Barbara Hayes Roth, who is teaching in the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University and whose research interests include, in particular, virtual theater.

This Workshop intends to promote the opportunity of meeting to those who are involved in this research domain and the potential users of methods that are being proposed or developed. As the subject is rather new to our community, the Workshop is planned to have a limited participation and will last only half a day. A preliminary program includes the following topics:

 
• an introductory speech by Barbara Hayes Roth,
• about 10 shorter talks of 20 to 30 minutes each,
• some space to the discussion.

Speakers will be invited to present, whenever possible, their results in the form of a 'demo'; organisers will make any effort to show examples of research made in some sites of excellence.
Abstracts (of about 4-5 pages each) will be collected in advance to be distributed during the Workshop, and will be made available, as well, on this Web site.

Thanks to the support of the organisers, participation to the Workshop will be free.