Schedule:

AAAI Fall 1999 Symposium on

Psychological Models of Communication 
in Collaborative Systems

November 5-7th, 1999, 
Sea Crest Conference Center on Cape Cod
North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA

Friday Nov. 5th Saturday Nov. 6th Sunday Nov. 7th

Main symposium sessions will be in Room Nauset II, on the lower Level

Continental breakfast will be available Friday through Sunday from 7:30am-9:00am in Bayside on the Main Level of the Sea Crest Resort.
Coffee breaks will be held in Nauset I
Lunch will be in Oceanfront on the Main Level and will be available Friday and Saturday from 12:30pm-2:00pm.
A buffet dinner and reception will be on Friday evening from 6:00-7:00pm in Surf Lounge/Bayside on the Main Level.
Plenary Session on Saturday will be in Ballroom I.

Note: Assume 15-minute talks, each followed by 5 minutes of discussion,
then 10 minutes by Discussant, then general discussion.
Talks are listed below with all paper authors (if any), and assumed speaker in bold.

Symposium overview

Day 1 Friday Nov. 5
Session I:Welcome, Introduction to Psychological models of communication in collaborative systems  9:00am -10:30am
Session II: Applications:
Conversations between partners with different knowledge		 11:00am -12:30pm
Session III:
Modeling grounding and repair for interactive systems		 2:00pm -3:30pm
Session IV: Focused Discussion  Day 1 4:00pm -5:30pm
Day 2 Saturday Nov. 6
Session V:
Grounding in multimedia conversation and in groups 		 9:00am -10:30am
Session VI: Collaborative learning,
intelligent tutoring, and problem  solving		 11:00am -12:30pm
Session VII:  Making electronic agents more "human" 2:00pm -3:30pm
Session VIII:  Modelling collaboration and dialog acts 4:00pm -5:30pm
Day 3 Sunday Nov. 7
Session IX:  Other presentations, discussion, and demos 9:00am -10:30am
Session X: Focused discussion Days 2,3 & Wrap-up 11:00am -12:30pm

Friday, November 5th

Session I: Welcome, intro
 9:00am -10:30am
Introduction and Welcome Susan Brennan, Alain Giboin, David Traum
How do real people communicate with virtual partners? Herbert Clark
Accounting for communication:
Estimating effort, transparency, and coherence 		Patrick Healey
Open Discussion
Coffee Break 10:30am-11:00am
Session II: Applications: Conversations between partners with different  knowledge
 11:00am -12:30pm
A Study of Human Dialogue Strategies in the Presence of Speech Recognition Errors Teresa Zollo
Enhancing collaboration in computer-administered survey interviews Michael Schober, Frederick G. Conrad, & Jonathan E. Bloom
Adaptivity and Anticipation in Expert-Laypeople Communication Rainer Bromme, Matthias Nückles, and Riklef Rambow
Discussant Fred Conrad
Open Discussion
Lunch break 12:30pm-2:00pm
Session III: Modeling grounding and repair for interactive systems
 2:00pm -3:30pm
A psychological model of grounding and repair in dialog Janet E. Cahn & Susan E. Brennan
Computational models of grounding in collaborative systems David Traum
Uncertainty, utility, and misunderstanding:
A decision theoretic  perspective on grounding in conversational systems		 Tim Paek & Eric Horvitz
Discussant Lyn Walker
Open Discussion
Coffee Break 3:30pm-4:00pm
Session IV: Focused Discussion Day 1 
 4:00pm -5:30pm
Synopsis of COOP'98 Workshop  Alain Giboin
Discussion Questions Discussants
Open Discussion
Symposium Reception 6:00pm-7:00pm

Saturday, November 6th

Session V: Grounding in multimedia conversation and in groups
 9:00am -10:30am
Grounding in media  Susan Brennan
Understanding multiparty multimedia interactions Anne Anderson, J Mullin, E Katsavras, R McEwan, E Grattan, & P Brundell
Participatory status in electronically mediated collaborative work  Andrew Monk
Discussant Steve Whittaker
Open Discussion
Coffee Break 10:30am-11:00am
Session VI:  Collaborative learning, intelligent tutoring, and problem  solving
 11:00am -12:30pm
What makes peer interaction effective?
Modeling effective communicationin an intelligent CSCL		 Amy Soller, Alan Lesgold, Frank Linton, & Brad Goodman
Towards an ACT-R model of communication in problem-solving Michael Matessa & John Anderson
Discourse cues in narrative text:
Using production to predict comprehension		 David Allbritton & Johanna Moore
Discussant  Johanna Moore
Open Discussion
Lunch break 12:30pm-2:00pm
Session VII:  Making electronic agents more "human"
 2:00pm -3:30pm
Living hand to mouth:
Psychological theories about speech and gesture		 Justine Cassell & Matthew Stone
A model of speech repairs and other disruptions Mark G. Core & Lenhart K. Schubert
Modeling time and meta-reasoning in dialogue via  active logic D. Perlis, K. Purang, D. Purushothaman, C. Andersen, & D. Traum
Discussant Candace Sidner
Open Discussion
Coffee Break 3:30pm-4:00pm
Session VIII: Modelling Collaboration and Dialogue Acts
 4:00pm -5:30pm
Collagen: Project summary and discussion questions Chuck Rich & Candy Sidner
TYCOON: Six primitive types of cooperation for observing, evaluating, and specifying cooperations Jean-Claude Martin
Discussant Ronnie Smith
Open Discussion
Plenary Session     (Symposium Speaker: H Clark) 6:00pm-7:00pm

Sunday, November 7th

Session IX:  Other presentations, discussion, and demos
 9:00am -10:30am
Speech acquisition through primitive dialogues with real action images Hitoshi Iida
Demo: Collagen System Chuck Rich, Candy Sidner & Neal Lesh
Demo: Autotutor Natalie Person & Peter Weimer-Hastings
Demo: CL Interface  and the OMT Editor Amy Soller & Alan Lesgold
Moderator Alain Giboin
Open Discussion
Coffee Break 10:30am-11:00am
Session X: Focused discussion Days 2,3 & Wrap-up
 11:00am -12:30pm
Discussion Questions & followup plans Discussants
Open Discussion
David Traum