Dear list We invite researchers to submit their contributions to the half-day workshop CCMI (Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction) 2025, which will be held as part of ICMI 2025, in October, in Canberra, Australia. -- ICMI 2025 Workshop Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI) 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/ccmi2025/home This ICMI 2025 workshop seeks to establish an international research platform to investigate the impact of linguistic and cultural differences on nonverbal behavior and their effects on communication dynamics. Moving beyond merely identifying nonverbal behavior patterns in specific cultural contexts, the workshop aims to uncover the mechanisms behind adaptation, change, and misunderstanding in intercultural interactions. The first year will focus on data-related challenges, such as collecting and annotating high-quality data across different regions. While advances in sensor technology, machine learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been applied to linguistic diversity, their use in nonverbal communication remains underexplored. Given the known cultural variations in gestures, facial expressions, and turn-taking, integrating insights from humanities research with multimodal analysis is crucial. As LLMs continue to shape human-machine interactions globally, understanding and incorporating cultural differences in nonverbal behavior is an urgent and significant research challenge. Topics: It includes (but is not limited to) the following: - Cross-cultural differences in nonverbal communication - Data collection methodologies for intercultural interaction - Annotation schema for multimodal data - Cultural variations in gestures, facial expressions, back-channeling, and turn-taking - Integration of humanities research insights into multimodal analysis - Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) to nonverbal communication - Multimodal machine learning and signal processing methods for detecting cultural - differences - Cross-linguistic differences and universals in turn-taking behavior - Technological innovations supporting intercultural human-machine interaction - Interdisciplinary research bridging humanities, social sciences, and multimodal computing - Standardized protocols for intercultural multimodal data collection - Sharing and harmonizing multimodal datasets and analysis techniques across international - research groups Important Dates (Tentative): - Paper Submission July 7th, 2025 - Paper Notification August 7th, 2025 - Camera Ready August 24th, 2025 - Workshop October 13th or 17th, 2025 Organizers: - Koji Inoue, Kyoto University, Japan - Shogo Okada, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan - Divesh Lala, Kyoto University, Japan - Sahba Zojaji, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China - Nancy F. Chen, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore - Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan ====================================================== 井上 昂治 京都大学 大学院情報学研究科 助教 TEL 075-753-5396 Koji Inoue, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan TEL +81-75-753-5396 ======================================================