Workshop on Multimodal, interactive interfaces for education

at the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Paris, France - October 13th, 2023 

From tablets to augmented reality, from virtual avatars, to social robots, multimodal, interactive interfaces emerged as interesting tools to facilitate learning in educational scenarios by improving the engagement and the motivation of students towards the learning activities. Research has also shown the potential of such technologies as convenient instruments for the personalization of teaching strategies to the learning styles of each student, proposing appropriate feedback and adapted levels of difficulty in a wider set of learning activities. Such kind of tailoring might become a new, particularly helpful resource to meet the demands of students with special needs.

The development and the adoption of such interfaces in educational scenarios relies on new pedagogies and new didactics co-designed in an interdisciplinary effort involving engineers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, students, and families.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a venue for all the involved stakeholders to present scientific advances on the design, the development, and the adoption of multimodal, interactive interfaces for education, fostering discussions, ideas and interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers on the domain as well as industrial partners.

Submission Guidelines

The workshop welcomes the submission of short paper (max 4 pages) matching the ACM Conference Template in this call on Easychair. All contributions will be subject to blind peer review by a minimum of two independent experts in the field. The Program Committee made of academic experts in social interfaces, education, and children with special needs will ensure the acceptance of high-quality contributions. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

• Workshop submission deadline, July 23rd, 2023
• Workshop acceptance notification, August 1st, 2023
• Workshop camera ready (hard deadline), August 14th, 2023
• Workshop day, October 13th, 2023

We kindly ask the authors to strictly follow the guidelines of the conference for the submissions.

Tentative of Program

List of Topics

Topics of interest will include, but will not be limited to:

• Theoretical and practical approaches to education with multimodal, interactive interfaces
• Socially intelligent agents for education;
• Multimodal, assistive interfaces for learning disabilities;
• Educational interfaces for students with special needs;
• Serious games and gamification;
• Tailored education and personalization;
• Teachers perception and trust on multimodal, interactive interfaces
• Collaborative design for education;
• Attention and engagement metrics;
• Long-term interaction;
• Affective interaction and emotional understanding;
• Socio-cognitive skills training;
• Verbal, non-verbal communication and backchannels;
• Context aware social interaction;
• Social interaction in joint activities;
• Timing, synchrony and coordination;
• Multi-party interaction in educational environments;
• Multimodal perception for human intent estimation in the wild.

Invited Speakers

• Denis Alamargot - Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Éducation de l’académie de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, France
• Pierre Dillenbourg - Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instructions Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Venue

The conference will take place at Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre & Marie Curie, located at the center of Paris:  4, Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris.

Please go to the conference website for more details.

Organising Committee

• Daniel C. Tozadore, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Lise Aubin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, France
• Soizic Gauthier, Forward College, France
• Barbara Bruno, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Salvatore M. Anzalone, Université Paris 8, France

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to icmi2023miie[at]easychair.org