Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction - workshop at HAI 2024

Fluidity

This is the homepage for the workshop Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction at the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2024) hosted at Swansea University, United Kingdom. The workshop will take place on Sunday 24th November 10.00-4.30 at the Faraday Building on Swansea University's Singleton Campus.

Motivation for the workshop

The property of fluidity in embodied communication is often discussed, but not formally defined. It is a property of human-human face-to-face spoken communication which makes transitions between contributions seamless, and allows appropriate overlaps of speech and non-speech action. It can be present in purely non-verbal contexts too, such as in dance.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in improving the fluidity of human-agent interaction. Both those interested from engineering, social science perspectives, and other disciplines, focussed on defining what makes an interaction fluid and how this property can be implemented in machines for more natural interaction.

Programme

08:00 Registration At main HAI desk
08:30
09:00 Informal Workshop WelcomeInformal chat
09:30
10:00 Talk: Matthew Aylett You Don't Need to Speak, You Need to Listen: Robot Interaction and Human-Like Turn-Taking
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Talk: Frank Foerster Fluidity and Negation - Some Observations
11:30 Talk: Patrick Holthaus Rapidly prototyping the FLUIDITY system: Using containers and socket communication
12:00 Talk: Carlos Baptista de Lima Improving Fluidity: A Virtual Reality Platform for Improving Real-World HRI Testing
12:30 LunchTaliesin Arts Centre
13:00
13:30
14:00 Talk: Julian Hough Defining Fluidity in Human-Robot Interaction: coherent overlap and timing of actions
14:30 Talk: Ella Cullen and Patrick Healey Fluid Failures: Could listener facial movements allow for efficient automatic detection and repair of misunderstanding in conversational agents?
15:00 Break and Final Discussion
15:30
16:00

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts of 500 words (max) are welcome on any concept relating to the property of fluid interaction with artificial agents. Existing work is welcome as a means of presenting the ideas, and select abstracts will be chosen for a joint publication of a journal article on the topic after the workshop. Topics are welcome on, but not limited to, the following:

  • Definitions (formal or otherwise) of more and less fluid interaction with agents.
  • Timing of contributions, both speech and movement, in interaction.
  • Natural overlap of speech contributions.
  • Natural overlap of movement, gestural and other multimodal interaction.
  • Perceptions of smooth, fluid interaction with artificial agents.
  • Predictive processing for embodied agents.

Submission link (500 words, preferably 11pt arial font): EasyChair for FLUIDITY-24

Important dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: 31st October 2024
  • Notification: 6th November 2024
  • Registration deadline: 15th November 2024
  • Workshop: Sunday 24th November 2024

Organizing committee

  • Julian Hough (Swansea University)
  • Carlos Baptista de Lima (Swansea University)
  • Frank Förster (University of Hertfordshire)
  • Patrick Holthaus (University of Hertfordshire)
  • Yongjun Zheng (University of Hertfordshire)

Registration

The event is in-person only and registration is available through the Workshop option for HAI 2024 registration: https://hai-conference.net/hai2024/registration/.

Once you have registered for HAI Workshop attendance, if you intend to attend this particular workshop, please also fill out this attendance form

Contact

All questions about submissions or the workshop should be emailed to julian.hough@swansea.ac.uk