JSAI 2005 Workshop on Conversational Informatics

13-14 June, 2005
Conference room 11, The Kitakyushu International Conference Center

PROGRAM

June 13th (Monday)

13:30-14:00 Registration

14:00-14:15 Opening (slides, ppt)

14:15-15:15 Session 1: Analyzing Conversational Structure

Conversational Inverse Information for Context-based Retrieval of Personal Experiences

Yasuhiro Katagiri, Mayumi Bono, Noriko Suzuki

Probabilistic Inference of Gaze Patterns and Structure of Multiparty Coversations from Head Directions and Utterances

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yoshinao Takemae, Junji Yamato, Hiroshi Murase

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 2: Conversational Behaviors

Detecting Microstructures of Conversations Using Physical References of Posters as Contextual Data

Ken Kumagai, Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase, Toyoaki Nishida

Meeting Recording System via Multimodal Sensing

Shingo Tokunaga, Yoshimichi Ito, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi

Frequent Motion Pattern Extraction for Motion Recognition in Real-time Human Proxy

Daisaku Arita, Hisato Yoshimatsu, Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

June 14th (Tuesday)

9:30-10:30 Session 3: Embodied Conversational Agents

Automated Gesturing for Embodied Agents (slides, pdf)

Goranka Zoric, Karlo Smid, Igor S. Pandzic

Physiologically Interactive Gaming with the 3D Agent Max

Christian Becker, Arturo Nakasone, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Ipke Wachsmuth

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:45 Session 4: Invited Talk

Augmenting Conversation with Imagery: The Road Ahead

Claudio Pinhanez

11:45-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:15 Session 5: Detecting Conversational Patterns

Detection of Assessment Patterns in Ordinary Triadic Conversation

Katsuya Takanashi, Eiki Fujimoto, Yasuyuki Kono, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hitoshi Isahara

Inferring Conversational Functions in Japanese Discourse with Discourse Marker Complex (slides, ppt)

Eiji Tomida, Shunichi Maruno

14:15-14:30 Coffee Break

14:30-15:30 Session 6: Conversational Data Mining from the Network

Automated News Item Categorization (slides, pdf)

Hrvoje Bacan, Igor S. Pandzic, Darko Gulija

Leader Qualification in Managing Nonprofit Organization

Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki