Call for Participation:
November 5-7th, 1999,
Sea Crest Conference Center on Cape Cod
North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Contents
Many collaborative systems embody ideas drawn piecemeal from
researchers' intuitions about collaboration. Alternatively,
collaborative systems may benefit from a more theoretical approach
informed by the psychology of communication. Psychological theories and
principles (e.g., those of Herbert Clark and colleagues) address many
of the same issues that are crucial to the functioning of collaborative
systems and agents. Some systems and agents have been designed taking
such psychological principles explicitly into account, often adapting
and extending the principles. Other systems designed without an
explicit psychological theory in mind nevertheless have psychological
claims implicit in their function and design choices.
This interdisciplinary symposium will focus on the use and
applicability of psychological models of communication in computer
systems that function either as a collaborative partner with a human
user or as a mediator between collaborating people. A main thread of
the symposium will be to investigate the extent to which specific
psychological theories yield useful models for dialogs "with and
through computers." Such models may provide architectures for
integrating the actions of two or more agents into a coherent whole,
methods for interpreting or generating interactive behavior, and
theoretical frameworks for coding, understanding, predicting, or
evaluating dialogs.
Submissions are invited on topics such as:
- explicitly
incorporating psychological models of language use into interactive
dialog systems or agents
- using psychological
models of dialog to predict the form and structure of human-computer
dialog or to evaluate dialog strategies (e.g., for phenomena like
repair)
- applying psychological
models to systems that enable multi-modal human communication
- evaluating the
suitability of particular psychological models for AI systems
- identifying and
evaluating explicit or implicit psychological claims made by
influential models of intelligent interactive behavior (e.g., Allen &
Perrault, Grosz & Sidner, Cohen & Levesque, Winograd, Carberry, and
others.)
Submission Information
Potential participants should submit
- three questions for discussion,
- a position paper or project report of no more
than 10 pages,
and
- if appropriate, pointers to other
relevant work available on-line (to be made available via the main symposium web page.
Electronic submission is preferred.
Email attachments to
susan.brennan@sunysb.edu
or send hard copy to Susan Brennan, Department of Psychology, SUNY,
Stony Brook, NY, USA 11794-2500.
| March 31 | Deadline for submissions |
| May 7 | Notification of acceptance |
| August 27 | Materials due for the working notes |
| November 5-7 | Symposium |
Organizing Committee
David Traum