Organised by Lawrence Cavedon.
Description
As part of SummerFest 2008, to be held at UNSW in the week of December 1st—5th 2008, HCSNet (the ARC Research Network in Human Communication) is organising a workshop on Embodied Interaction in Physical, Mobile, and Virtual Environments.
This workshop focuses on the use and impact of body on interaction, in physical or virtual environments, and including the role of localisation in mobile situations. Topics will cover human-human, human-system, and human-robot interactions, as well as interactions between humans and artefacts in their physical space. Interaction may involve multiple modalities such as speech, physical and facial gestures, haptics, or more standard computer inputs, as well as computer-mediated interaction for distributed teams. Potential interested parties are encouraged to stretch the boundaries of what they consider "embodied" and "interaction"---we are interested in all aspects of the Human Communication Sciences, and how any aspect of locality, presence, or embodiment may impact on them.
The workshop will include a keynote address by Catherine Pelachaud, who is a leading researcher in the creation of embodied conversational agents.
We plan to invite 1 or 2 other eminent speakers in the areas of physical and mobile interaction.
Presenters and Abstracts
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Intended Audience
This workshop is designed to appeal to anyone from mobile application designers, museum curators, architects, interaction designers, sociologists and psychologists, to HCI and CSCW designers, roboticists, game developers, and more!
For enquiries about the workshop, contact Lawrence Cavedon.
Important Dates
| Call for Abstracts released | Tuesday 19th August |
| Abstract submission deadline | Monday 15th September |
| Notification of acceptance | Monday 29th September |
| Online registration opens | Tuesday 16th September |
| Final Abstract submission deadline | Monday 10th November |
| Online registration closes | Monday 17th November |
| Workshop | Thursday 4th and Friday 5th December |