April 1-4, 2008
Aberdeen, Scotland
AISB 2008 Convention
Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence
Programme
(The table below includes hyperlinks to each paper)Alternatively you may view the Print Proceedings for each symposium (includes page numbers and ISBN numbers)
| 1st April, Tuesday | |||||
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| The Reign of Catz and Dogz '08 | Affective Language in Human & Machine | Persuasive Technology | Behaviour Regulation in MAS | ||
| 09:00-10.30 | 9:00 Introduction to Catz & Dogz '08 Shaun Lawson (Univ of Lincoln, UK) and Thomas Chesney (Univ of Nottingham, UK) 9:20 Invited Talk. Christoph Bartneck: Robots Wanted, Dead or Alive? 10:05 Jelle Saldien Kristof Goris, Bam Vanderborght and Dirk Lefeber: On the design of an emotional interface for the huggable robot Probo |
Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse 9:00 Alessia Martalo, Nicole Novielli and Fiorella de Rosis: Attitude Display In Dialogue Patterns 9:30 Ielka van der Sluis and Chris Mellish: Towards Affective Natural Language Generation: Empirical Investigations 10:00 Graeme Ritchie, Robyn Munro, Helen Pain and Kim Binsted: Evaluating humorous properties of texts 10:15 Tim Rumbell, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Alan Wallington: Affect in Metaphor: Developments with Wordnet |
09:00 Opening Remarks. 09:15 Invited Talk. Ehud Reiter: Lessons learned from tailoring smoking cessation letters 10:00 Discussion |
9:00 Maxime Morge: An Argumentation-based Computational Model of Trust for Negotiation 9:30 Simon Miles, Paul Groth, Michael Luck: Handling Mitigating Circumstances for Electronic Contracts 10:00 Nir Oren, Michael Luck, Timothy J. Norman: Argumentation for Normative Reasoning | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary speaker: Jon Oberlander | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Break & Poster Session | ||||
| 14:00-16:00 |
14:00 Invited Talk. Graeme Ritchie: Computational humour 14:30 Steve Yohanan and Karon E. MacLean: The haptic creature project: social human-robot interaction through affective touch 15:00 Cheng Guo & Ehud Sharlin: Utilizing Physical Objects and Metaphors for Human Robot Interaction 15:30 Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Samir Araujo de Souza: An inferential dynamics approach to personality and emotion driven behaviour determination for virtual animals |
14:00 Invited Talk. Diane Litman: Detecting and Adapting to Student Uncertainty in a Spoken Tutorial Dialogue System 15:15 Panel/discussion: Tentative topic - How to evaluate affective language behaviour in machines? |
14:00 Hien Nguyen and Judith Masthoff: Using digital images to enhance the credibility of information 14:25 Cees Midden and Jaap Ham: The persuasive effects of positive and negative social feedback from an embodied agent on energy conservation behavior 14:50 Irene Mazzotta, Enzo Silvestri and Fiorella de Rosis: Emotional And Non Emotional Persuasion Strength 15:15 Commentator 15:30 Discussion |
14:00 Invited Talk. Javier Vazquez-Salceda 15:00 Sarah Lim Choi Keung, Nathan Griffiths: Using Recency and Relevance to Assess Trust and Reputation 15:30 Luke Dickens, Krysia Broda, Alessandra Russo: Modelling MAS with Finite Analytic Stochastic Processes | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16.30-18:00 |
16:30 David Benyon: The EU Companions project 17:00 Kristof Goris, Jelle Saldien, Bram Vanderborght and Dirk Lefeber: The huggable robot Probo: design of the robotic head 17:30 Thomas Chesney, Shaun Lawson: Learning to care for a real pet whilst interacting with a virtual one? The educational value of games like Nintendogs |
Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse II 16:30 Sandra Williams, Richard Power and Paul Piwek: Simulating emotional reactions in medical dramas 17:00 Andrzej Zuczkowski and Ilaria Riccioni: "You make me feel.": Affective Causality in Language Communication 17:15 Nicolas Nicolov, Franco Salvetti and Steliana Ivanova: Sentiment Analysis: Does Coreference Matter? 17:30 Alexander Osherenko: Towards Semantic Affect Sensing in Sentences |
16:30 Maxime Morge: Social and Persuasive Argumentation over Organized Actions 16:55 Simon Wells and Chris Reed: MAgtALO: An Agent-Based System for Persuasive Online Interaction 17:10 Commentator 17:20 Discussion |
16:30 Simon Miles, Nir Oren, Mike Luck, Sanjay Modgil, Noura Faci, Camden Holt, Gary Vickers: Modelling and Administration of Contract-Based Systems 17:00 Emmanuel Tadjouddine: Automated Mechanism Design Using Process Algebra | |
| 2nd April, Wednesday | |||||
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| Brain Computer Interfaces & Human Computer Interaction | Affective Language in Human & Machine | Persuasive Technology | Behaviour Regulation in MAS | Agent cognitive ability & orders of emergence | |
| 09:00-10.30 | 9:00 Welcome and Opening 09:20 Invited Talk. D. McFarland (Wadsworth Centre, USA) 10:05 R. Adams, G.S. Bahr and B. Moreno: Brain Computer Interfaces: Psychology and Pragmatic Perspectives for the Future 10:25 A. Portelli, S.J. Nasuto Toward Construction of an Inexpensive Brain Computer Interface for Goal Oriented Applications |
The Lexicon I 09:00 Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu and Andres Montoyo Guijarro: Applying a culture dependent emotion triggers database for text valence and emotion classification 09:30 Taner Danisman and Adil Alpkocak: Feeler: Emotion Classification of Text Using Vector Space Model 10:00 Angela Fahrni and Manfred Klenner: Old Wine and Warm Beer: Target-Specific Sentiment Analysis of Adjectives 10:15 Announcements and general discussion |
09:00 Opening remarks for second day 09:10 Rosta Farzan, Joan M. DiMicco, David R.Millen, Beth Brownholtz, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan: When the experiment is over: Deploying an incentive system to all the users 09:35 Nick Taylor, Mark Rouncefield, Keith Cheverst and Shahram Izadi: Encouraging Community Spirit with Situated Displays 09:50 Commentator 10:00 Discussion |
09:00 Sofia Panagiotidi, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Sandra Ortega-Martorell, Steven Willmott, Roberto Confalonieri, Patrick Storms: Intelligent Contracting Agents Language 09:30 Nathan Griffiths: Cooperation through Tags and Context Awareness 10:00 Martin Kollingbaum, Ivan Jureta, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Katia Sycara: Automated Requirements-Driven Definition of Norms for the Regulation of Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems |
09:00 Welcome and opening remarks 09:10 Chris Goldspink and Robert Kay: Agent Cognitive capabilities and Orders of Emergence: critical thresholds relevant to the simulation of social behaviours 09:30 Discussion 09:50 Martin Neumann: Cognitive Architectures of agent systems and social mechanisms of emergence and immergence 09:30 Discussion |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary speaker: Rosaria Conte | ||||
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Break & Poster Session | ||||
| 14:00-16:00 | 14:00 Invited Talk. R. Murray-Smith (University of Glasgow, UK) 14:45 N. Nicolaou, S.J. Nasuto, J. Georgiou: Single-Trial Event-Related Potential Analysis for Brain-Computer Interfaces 15:05 P. Gnanayutham, J. George: Adaptive Brain-Body Interfaces 15:25 I. Daly, S.J. Nasuto, K. Warwick: Towards Natural Human-Computer Interaction in BCI 15:45 Discussion |
The Lexicon II 14:00 Robert Rittman and Nina Wacholder: Adjectives and Adverbs as Indicators of Affective Language for Automatic Genre Detection 14:30 Marina Sokolova and Guy Lapalme: Verbs as the most affective words 14:45 Panel/discussion: Tentative topic - What are the limits of inferring emotion from words? |
14:00 A. Felfernig, B. Gula, G. Leitner, M. Maier, R. Melcher, S. Schippel, E. C. Teppan:
A Dominance Model for the Calculation of Decoy Products in Recommendation Environments 14:25 Micah Clark and Selmer Bringsjord: Persuasion Technology Through Mechanical Sophistry 14:40 Commentator 14:50 Discussion 15:20 Panel: The Ethics of Persuasive Technology |
14:00 Panel Discussion: The Whats, Whys Wheres and Hows of Behaviour Regulation |
14:00 Raif Serkan Albayrak, Ahmet Suerdem: Formalizing Epistemological Constituents of Emergence 14:20 Discussion 15:00 Paul Ormerod: What can Agents Know? The Feasibility of Advanced Cognition in Social and Economic Systems 15:20 Discussion |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16.30-18:00 |
16:30 Invited Talk. F. Sepulveda (University of Essex, UK) 17:15 A. Nijolt: BrainGain: BCI for HCI and Games 17:35 Closing Remarks |
Acoustics and Phonetics 16:30 Syaheerah L. Lutfi, Juan M. Montero, Raja N. Ainon and Zuraida M. Don: eXTRA: A Culturally Enriched Malay Text to Speech System 17:00 Martin Gruber and Milan Legat: Single Speaker Acoustic Analysis of Czech Speech for Purposes of Emotional Speech Synthesis 17:15 Enrico Zovato, Francesca Tini-Brunozzi and Morena Danieli: Interplay between pragmatic and acoustic level to embody expressive cues in a Text to Speech system 17:30 Final discussion and closing |
16:30 Isabella Poggi and Laura Vincze: Persuasive gaze in political discourse 16:55 Vikram Param: Persuasive technology for shaping social beliefs in rural women: Development of group based health information kiosk 17:10 Commentator 17:20 Discussion 17:50 Closing remarks |
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16:30 Martin Helmhout, Henk Gazendam Rene Jorna: Control over Emergence 16:50 Discussion 17:10 Bruce Edmonds: A Brief Survey of Some results on mechanisms and emergent outcomes |
| 18:15 | AISB Committee Meeting | ||||
| 20:00 | Ceilidh (Partners are welcome!) | ||||
