Call for Papers
FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference – Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction
Supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg
November 15-17, 2021
Online Zoom-Meeting
https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/nachwuchskonferenzen/SpoHuMa21
Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/SpoHuMa21
Paper submission deadline: September 3, 2021
This three-day international conference is targeted at early career researchers (Master’s students, PhD students, Post-Docs) in the area of spoken human-machine interaction who take a human-centered approach to the topic. While we would like to emphasize linguistic aspects, we also invite researchers from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and computer science to contribute their perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to individual differences related to personality and cognitive processing, speaker behavior and attitudes towards artificial interlocutors, dynamic processes such as accommodation, effects of interaction with synthetic voices.
The conference will feature regular oral and poster sessions, ample opportunity for discussion, and invited speakers approaching the topic of spoken human-machine interaction from various angles.
The conference is supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg. We are committed to creating an accessible event. Please get in touch if you need assistance, e.g. sign language interpretation. The entire event will be held online.
Invited Speakers
- Michelle Cohn, University of California, Davis, USA
- Friederike Eyssel, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Roger K. Moore, University of Sheffield, UK
- Catharine Oertel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Karola Pitsch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers intended for this conference should be between three and four pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must adhere to this template. Papers must be submitted by September 3, 2021 via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English and papers must be written in English. The submitted papers will be reviewed by the advisory committee of the conference.
The proceedings of the conference will be published online. We offer the opportunity to revise the paper after the conference to incorporate feedback.
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!
REGISTRATION
Registration opens September 15, 2021
IMPORTANT DATES
June 7, 2021: Submission portal opens
September 3, 2021: Deadline: Paper submission
September 15, 2021: Registration opens
October 1, 2021: Paper acceptance/rejection notification
November 5, 2021: Deadline: Registration
November 15-17, 2021: Conference
November 29, 2021: Camera-ready paper due
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Sarah Warchhold, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Daniel Duran, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Iona Gessinger, Saarland University, Germany
- Eran Raveh, Saarland University, Germany
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Bistra Andreeva, Saarland University, Germany
- Štefan Beňuš, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
- Peter Birkholz, Dresden, University of Technology, Germany
- Ronald Böck, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
- Jesin James, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- James Kirby, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Julia Krüger, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
- Leonardo Lancia, CNRS/ Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France
- Sébastien Le Maguer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Natalie Lewandowski, High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart, Germany
- Bogdan Ludusan, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Bernd Möbius, Saarland University, Germany
- Uwe Reichel, audEEring, Germany; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; University of Munich, Germany
- Ingo Siegert, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
- Fabian Tomascheck, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Germany
- Petra Wagner, Bielefeld University, Germany