AIMS

The school will affords a change of perspective in verbal and nonverbal communication, where the
research focus moves from “communicative tools” to “communicative instances” and ask for investigations that take into account the environment and the context in which the communicative acts take place.

The consequences in Information Communication Technology (ICT) research should bring to the development of instantiated interactive dialogue systems and instantiated intelligent avatars able to act by exploiting contextual and environmental signals and process them by combining previous experience (memory) adapted to the problem instance

The school will further artificial cognitive research since it will create a bridge between the most recent research in multimodal communication (taking into account gestures, emotions, social signal processing etc) and models of computations that exploit these signals and are aware of the context in which these signals are expressed. Human behaviour exploits this information and adapts. Artificial cognitive system models must account of this human ability for implementing a more friendly and emotionally colored human machine interaction.

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TARGET AUDIENCE

The school is oriented towards scientists, researchers and students working in the field of multimodal communication who are invited (COST 2102 MC members are particularly invited to contribute and /or report on COST 2102 activities) to submit short contributions to allow exchanges and discussions with the invited speakers.

ORGANIZATION

The school is organized as a series of lectures presented by the invited speakers, with short presentations given by the participants that will focus on recent developments and open problems in the field of multimodal signals in face-to-face interactions.