Welcome to AI-MHRI
The AI for Multimodal Human Robot Interaction Workshop
at the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM) 2018 in Stockholm
July 14 and 15
To register to the workshop, please use the general registration forms for FAIM workshops, accessible for instance through the registration forms for IJCAI/ECAI at https://www.ijcai-18.org/register/.
The Workshop
The Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Human Robot Interaction (AI-MHRI) workshop offers a platform for researchers at the intersection of AI and Multimodal HRI. HRI research studies the interaction between humans and increasingly intelligent and autonomous machines, from the sensory to the physical modality, from problems of learning, social signals, collaboration, to design. Sophisticated AI models and implementations are critical in this endeavor but are not often explicitly addressed. AI models and implementations, on their part, are often developed without sufficiently considering how humans interact with them, whether they understand them, trust them, and are willing to collaborate with them. We thus believe that AI is a significant challenge in HRI research and HRI is a significant challenge in AI research, and this mutual significance motivates our workshop.
Because the AI-MHRI workshop takes place during the IJCAI/ECAI, AAMAS, and ICML meetings, researchers working on AI, Autonomous Systems, and Machine Learning have an opportunity to contribute to the emerging connection between AI and HRI. This workshop builds on previous AAAI Fall Symposia (AI-HRI 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, see http://ai-hri.github.io) and connects on previous workshops in the area of social signals in HRI (e.g., Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots; see http://vihar-2017.vihar.org). The AI-MHRI workshop, however, puts a greater emphasis on discussions, joint research development, and identifying promising future directions of the intersection of these fields, rather than strictly adhering to the standard “mini-conference” format.
Schedule (tentative)
Saturday, July 14, Stockholmsmässan, room K24:
- 08:45-09:00 Welcome
- 09:00-10:00 Invited speaker: Elisabeth Andre - “Socially sensitive technologies”
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-11:20 Paper presentations (10min each) and discussion session (Socially sensitive technologies)
- Nick Campbell: Using Multimodal Information to Support Spoken Dialogue Interaction between Humans and Robots without Intrusive Language processing
- Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes and Jonathan Ginzburg: Integrating laughter into spoken dialogue systems: preliminary analysis and suggested programme
- 11:20-11:30 Short break
- 11:30-12:30 Paper presentations (10min each) and discussion session (Cognition: Mindreading and reasoning)
- Koki Ijuin, Shohei Fujio, Albara Khalifa, Tsuneo Kato and Seiichi Yamamoto: Comparison on Effect of Eye Gaze Activities between Human-human and Human-robot Conversations in Second-Language
- Hung-Hsuan Huang, Seiya Kimura, Kazuhiro Kuwabara and Toyoaki Nishida: Proposal of a Multimodal Framework for Generating Robot’s Spontaneous Attention Directions and Nods in Group Discussion
- Momina Rizwan, Volkan Patoglu and Esra Erdem: Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Planning using Hybrid Conditional Planning
- 12:20-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-14:30 Invited speaker: Matthias Scheutz - “Is that what you want? Architectural Challenges of Engaging in Multi-Modal Natural Language Interactions with Humans”
- 14:30-15:30 (session changed!) Paper presentations (10min each) and discussion session (Robots and dialogue modelling)
- Kristiina Jokinen: AI-based Dialogue Modelling for Social Robots
- Katsuyoshi Yamagami, Hirokazu Kiyomaru and Sadao Kurohashi: Knowledge-based Dialog Approach for Exploring User’s Intention
- Ioannis Papaioannou, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon: Human-Robot Interaction Requires More Than Slot Filling - Multi-Threaded Dialogue for Collaborative Tasks and Social Conversation
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00-17:00 Paper presentations (10min each) and discussion session (Data and AI technologies for HRI)
- Gerard Bailly and Frédéric Elisei: Demonstrating and learning multimodal socio-communicative behaviors for HRI
- Adrian Simon Bauer, Peter Birkenkampf, Alin Albu-Schäffer and Daniel Leidner: Bridging the Gap Between Supervised Autonomy and Teleoperation
- Neziha Akalin, Andrey Kiselev, Annica Kristoffersson and Amy Loutfi: Enhancing Social Human-Robot Interaction with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sunday, July 15, Stockholmsmässan, room K24:
- 09:00-10:00 Invited speaker: Amit Kumar Pandey - “An industrial perspective on AI needs for Multimodal HRI”
- 10:00-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:30 (session changed!) Paper presentations (10min each) and discussion session (Interaction frameworks)
- Sam Thellman and Tom Ziemke: Studying the Craft of Folk Psychology in HRI
- Elin Anna Topp and Jacek Malec: A Knowledge Based Approach to User Support for Robot Programming
- Mark Philipsen, Matthias Rehm and Thomas Moeslund: Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration
- 12:30- ? Wrap-up, closing remarks, lunch, and an optional continued discussion / workshop
Papers:
Papers that will be presented and abstracts for the invited talks can be found here:
The workshop (with IJCAI-id W27) will take place at the AAMAS / ICMAL / IJCAI conference venue (Stockholmsmässan), presumably in room K24 on July 14 (all day) and July 15 (morning session with an optional extension into the early afternoon). Please check the conference workshop website at https://www.ijcai-18.org/workshops/ for potential updates.
For recommendations regarding accommodation in the area or in central Stockholm, please check the general information at https://www.ijcai-18.org.
Some information on how to get to Stockholmsmässan and find the room can be found through the venue information page of, e.g., IJCAI/ECAI: https://www.ijcai-18.org/venues/.
Important dates:
- May 14: Paper submission deadline (extended!)
- May 28: Author notification (planned)
- June 29: Publication of camera ready material (tentative)
- July 14/15: The AI-MHRI workshop
To register to the workshop, please use the general registration forms for FAIM workshops, accessible for instance through the registration forms for IJCAI/ECAI at https://www.ijcai-18.org/register/. The workshop has the id-number W27.
Organisers:
- Gérard Bailly, GIPSA-Lab, Univ. of Grenoble-Alps, France
- Laura Hiatt, NRL, Washington DC, USA
- Kristiina Jokinen, AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan
- Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto Univ., Japan
- Roger Moore, Univ. of Sheffield, UK
- Elin A. Topp, Lund Univ., Sweden
Program Committee:
- Gérard Bailly, Grenoble-Alps Univ., France
- Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow, UK
- Anders Green, Södertorn University, Sweden
- Marc Hanheide, University of Lincoln, UK
- Laura Hiatt, NRL, Washington DC, USA
- Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech., USA
- Hung-Hsuan Huang, Riken, Japan
- Kristiina Jokinen, AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan
- Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto Univ., Japan
- Takanori Komatsu, Meiji Univ., Japan
- Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Yukiko Nakano, Seikei Univ., Japan
- Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
- Elin Anna Topp, Lund Univ., Sweden