[agents] [CFP] Special Issue on Multimodal Interaction with Virtual Agents and Communication Robots in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

[Hung-Hsuan Huang]

[Call for Papers]

Special Issue: Multimodal Interaction with Virtual Agents and Communication
Robots in
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Guest Editors:

Prof. Hung-Hsuan Huang (The University of Fukuchiyama, Japan)
Prof. Shogo Okada (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan)
Dr. Ryo Ishii (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Dr. Divesh Lala (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Daniel Rea (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Prof. Nihan Karatas (Nagoya University, Japan)

Deadline: 25 September 2023

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/special_issues/S8Y1Y483C1

Multimodal information including language, voice, gaze, posture, gestures,
and biological signals facilitates social interaction between humans. It
reveals mechanisms of emotion, attitude, personality, skill, role, and
other forms of human communication activities. On the other hand, virtual
agents and communication robots are developed to save humans from simple
and repetitive tasks for more valuable and more sophisticated ones. They
imitate human-like outlooks and behaviors so that their users can interact
with them using normal conversation without needing specific training. To
reproduce such human behaviors and close the interaction loop, these
artifacts have to perceive, understand, and generate them in a multimodal
way.

In recent years, the advancement of machine learning techniques has enabled
higher accuracy and brought out the potential of multimodal social signal
processing. Much attention has been focused on such technologies and their
applications for understanding and modeling the social aspects of human
beings through their communication activities. Through these processes,
there is potential to develop new technologies for human-agent and
human-robot interactions.

To further improve these studies, in addition to the fields in computer
science disciplines such as AI, NLP, signal processing, ML, and HCI, other
disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and sociology play important
roles in providing the theoretical backgrounds of human communication. In
other words, this is an exciting research area that has the potential to
encourage collaborations between researchers in a wide variety of
disciplines and to conduct new interdisciplinary ideas.

We welcome submissions from all research fields related to multimodal
interactions with virtual agents and communication robots. For example,
articles related to topics such as theoretical foundations, empirical
verifications, analysis as well as component technologies, integrations,
interface designs, and system developments are welcomed as well as
submissions from behavioral science and other social sciences.

Keywords:
* Multimodal Interaction
* Virtual Agents
* Communication Robots
* Social Robotics
* Machine Learning
* Verbal and Non-verbal

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Hung-Hsuan Huang / Hironoki Ko (黄 宏軒) Ph.D.
Professor,
Faculty of Informatics,
The University of Fukuchiyama,
Azahori 3370, Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto 620-0886, Japan
Tel: +81-773-24-7110
E-mail: hhhuang at acm.org
Homepage: http://iislab-fukuchiyama-u.jpn.org/

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