Dear all,
(apologies for cross-posting)
Following our 2 workshops on NLG for HRI at INLG 2018 (
https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2018/) and 2020 (
https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2020/), and a special session
on Natural Language in HRI at SIGDIAL 2022 (
https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers-nlihri/), we are now organising a
special issue on Embodied Conversational Systems in Human-Robot Interaction
at D&D journal (
http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/special_issues/Spec-Issue2023.pdf).
The deadline for paper submissions is the 1**st of November 2023. The
topics of interest are as follows:
● Design and evaluation of conversational systems for human-robot
interaction
● Natural language understanding and generation for human-robot interaction
● Situated dialogue with robots
● Contextualization and personalization in conversational systems
● Emotional and social intelligence in conversational systems
● Multimodal interaction and fusion of sensory data in conversational
systems
● Ethics, privacy, and security issues in conversational systems for
human-robot interaction
● User studies and user experience evaluation of conversational systems for
human-robot
interaction
● Applications of conversational systems in healthcare, education, and
entertainment
Submission guidelines: http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/ During
submission, just pick the special issue from the drop-down menu.
We would really appreciate it if you could forward this email to your
students or colleagues who work in this area.
Kind Regards,
Dr Dimitra Gkatzia - https://dimitragkatzia.wordpress.com/
Associate Prof. of Computing @ Edinburgh Napier University
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gkatzia