Programme

Tuesday 10 September

All sessions will be held at KTH, either in F3 or Fantum.

Both rooms are within 2 minutes walk of each other (map).

8.30-9 Registration and Welcome – F3, KTH
9-10 Keynote: Morgan Fredricksson – F3, KTH
10-10.30 Coffee
10.30 – 11.30 ORAL SESSION – F3, KTH

Invited Demo: New Dimensions in Testimony 
David Traum

CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors
Shikib Mehri, Alan W Black and Maxine Eskenazi

HomeCare: Supporting Independent Living with Dementia
Laetitia Cailleteau

11.30 – 12.30 Roundtable on Ethics in Speech, Language, and Dialog Technology –  FANTUM, KTH

(Shared with YRRSDS)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.45 POSTER SESSION – FANTUM, KTH(Shared with YRRSDS)

Pilot Data Collection Survey and Analytical Techniques for Persuasion Engineering Systems
Annye Braca, Brendan Spillane, Vincent Wade and Pierpaolo Dondio

Can we use a spoken dialogue system to document endangered languages
Seyed Hossein Alavi, Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum 

Three-Party Interactive Tutoring System for Mastering Machine Learning
Takumi Kojima, Takuya Iida, Daina Teranishi and Masahiro Araki

Current Challenges in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Why They are Critical for Those Living with Dementia
John-Angus Addlesee, Ioannis Konstas and Arash Eshghi

Automatic detection of the most rhythmic speaking style and context to approximate stress-timed rhythm for Non-native Learners(L2) of Arabic Languages
Bader Alotaibi and Roger K Moore
 

Invited Demo: WikiSpeech

 

2.45-3.15 Coffee
3.15-5 ORAL SESSION – F3, KTH

Demo: DS2A: A Dialogue System for Sexual Assault and Harassment Education
Carla Gordon, David Traum, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski

Developing strategies to stop bullying: Design considerations for an artificial training center
Sylvie Saget, Alina Yarmina and Marina Escobar Planas

 A Dataset for Subjective Assessment of German Text Complexity
Salar Mohtaj, Babak Naderi, Kaspar Ensikat and Sebastian Möller

Integrating Dialogue within an iCALL platform for Irish
Neasa Ní Chiaráin and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

“Can you say more about the location?” The Development of a Pedagogical Reference Resolution Agent
Maike Paetzel and Ramesh Manuvinakurike

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