Interactive Multimodal Learning 2021: ICMI 2021 Workshop on Empowering Interactive Robots by Learning Through Multimodal Feedback Channel Montreal, Canada, October 18-22, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/interactivemultimodallearning |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interactivemultimoda |
Submission deadline | August 31, 2021 |
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Call for Papers for ACM ICMI 2021 Workshop on
“Empowering Interactive Robots by Learning Through Multimodal Feedback Channels”
https://sites.google.com/view/interactivemultimodallearning/
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SCOPE AND MOTIVATION
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Robots provide the potential to assist humans both in the workplace and in everyday life. In contrast to classical robotic applications, assistive robots will face a variety of different tasks, making it essential for them to learn through direct interaction with users. While recent advances in Machine Learning has facilitated learning from non-expert users, it is still an open question how to optimally incorporate the inherent multimodality of human feedback into these algorithms. Additionally, there is yet to discover the full potential of combining explicit and implicit human feedback channels. In this workshop, we will focus on how to best incorporate multimodal human feedback into existing learning approaches and which multimodal interactions are preferred and/or required for future robotic assistance. We provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange between researchers from disciplines such as HRI, HCI, Affective Computing, natural language understanding and machine learning to stimulate a discussion on how multimodality can become key to the emerging field of interactive machine learning and lead to more intuitive and successful interactions with robots in the future.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Dr. Judith Holler, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki, TU Darmstadt
Dr. Heni ben Amor, Arizona State University
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission papers: 1st August
Notification to authors: 1st September
Submission of camera-ready copies: 1st October
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VENUE
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The workshop is part of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (https://icmi.acm.org/2021/) that will be held in Montreal, Canada. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development.
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SUBMISSION
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We invite submissions of long papers (up to 8 pages + references), short papers (up to 4 pages + references), and extended abstracts (1 page + references) formatted according to ICMI guidelines. The technical program committee will select papers for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be printed in the adjunct proceedings of ICMI 2021. Reviewing will be double-blind, so submissions should be anonymous: please do not include the authors' names, affiliations, or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. For format details please see the workshop’s homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/interactivemultimodallearning/submission
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TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimodal Human Robot Interaction
- Multimodal Human Behavior Modelling
- Interactive Reinforcement Learning
- Learning from Demonstration
- Multimodal Instructions
- Affective Computing for Robotics
- Cognitive Models for Multimodal Interaction
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ORGANIZERS
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Cigdem Turan, TU Darmstadt
Dorothea Koert, TU Darmstadt
Karl David Neergaard, University of Macau
Rudolf Lioutikov, University of Texas