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| Abstract: |
| For a little over a decade, we have been building virtual humans -- computer-generated characters -- at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Ultimately, our vision is to create virtual humans that look and behave just like real people. They will think on their own, model and exhibit emotions, and interact using natural language along with the full repertoire of verbal and non-verbal communication techniques that people use. Although the realization of that goal is still in the future, making steps toward it has required us to weave together different threads of AI research such as computer vision, natural language understanding and emotion modeling that are often treated as independent areas of investigation. Yet, as I will show in the talk, each of these areas is relevant to dialogue understanding and I will discuss synergies that can result from considering these technologies as parts of an integrated whole rather than as disparate research topics. I will further argue that the social context that surrounds virtual humans can suggest novel areas for research that can be quite different from traditional natural language research topics.
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| Bio: |
| William Swartout is Director of Technology for USC's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and a research professor of computer science at USC. His particular research interests include virtual humans, explanation and text generation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, intelligent computer based education, and the development of new AI architectures. In 2009, Swartout received the Robert Engelmore Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for contributions to knowledge-based systems and explanation, groundbreaking research on virtual human technologies and their applications, and service to the artificial intelligence community. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, has served on their Board of Councilors and is past chair of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has served as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academies and the JFCOM Transformation Advisory Group. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from MIT and his bachelor's degree from Stanford University. |
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Day 1: Poster Session 1(15:30 - 17:00): |
1 Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan |
2 Timo Baumann, Universität Potsdam, Germany |
3 Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
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4 Sourish Chaudhuri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
5 Lin Chen, UIC, USA |
6 Nina Dethlefs, University of Bremen, Germany |
7 Wende Frost, Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
8 Jana Goetze, KTH CSC, Sweden |
9 José Pablo González-Brenes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
10 William Hewlett, UCLA, USA |
Day 1: Poster Session 2(17:00 - 18:30): |
11 David Klotz, Bielefeld University, Germany |
12 Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
13 Sungjin Lee, POSTECH, Korea |
14 Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway |
15 Teruhisa Misu, NICT, Japan |
16 Elnaz Nouri, USC, USA |
17 Sai Qian, LORIA, INRIA, France |
18 Lina Rojas, LORIA, France |
19 Ethan Selfridge, OHSU, USA |
20 William Yang Wang, Columbia University, USA |
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Day 1
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Wednesday, June 15th
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8:00
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Breakfast and Registration
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9:00
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Opening Introductions
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10:00
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Coffee Break
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10:15
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Roundtable 1
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11:45
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Presentations from Roundtable Groups
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12:30
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Lunch
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13:30
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Special Session and Keynote Speech (Prof. Bill Swartout, USC/ICT)
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15:30
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Poster Session
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18:30
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Dinner and Social event
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Day 2
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Thursday, June 16th
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08:00
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Breakfast
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09:00
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Roundtable 2
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10:30
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Presentations
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11:15
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Coffee Break
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11:30
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Sponsor Session
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12:30
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Lunch
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14:30
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Industry/Academia Panel
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15:30
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Closing
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16:00
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Social event (optional)
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| 1 Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway |
2 Timo Baumann, Universität Potsdam, Germany |
3 Gautam Varma Mantena, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad |
4 Lina Rojas, LORIA, France |
5 Teruhisa Misu, NICT, Japan |
6 Sai Qian, LORIA, INRIA, France |
7 William Yang Wang, Columbia University, USA |
8 Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
9 Zhuoran Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK |
10 José Pablo González-Brenes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
11 David Klotz, Bielefeld University, Germany |
12 Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina |
13 Jana Goetze, KTH CSC, Sweden |
14 Raveesh Meena, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
15 Nina Dethlefs, University of Bremen, Germany |
16 Christine Talbot, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA |
17 Sourish Chaudhuri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
18 Lin Chen, UIC, USA |
19 Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan |
20 William Hewlett, UCLA, USA |
21 Wende Frost, Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
22 Hamid R. Chinaei, Laval University, Canada |
23 Elnaz Nouri, USC, USA |
24 Sungjin Lee, POSTECH, Korea |
25 Ethan Selfridge, OHSU, USA |
