[Amdnl] Call for applications: CITEC Summer School 2012 - Verbal and non-verbal interaction: From experiments to implementation

[Yukie Nagai]

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
CITEC Summer School 2012
Verbal and non-verbal interaction: From experiments to implementation

CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany, August 27th-31st, 2012
Application Deadline: June 20th, 2012
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Humans, as well as animal or artificial agents are continuously 
confronted with the problem of understanding each other. What are the 
mechanisms that shape communicative behaviour, what makes it so 
efficient in natural environments and what is the key for the 
improvement of it in artificial contexts? Dialogue coordination 
(alignment) in normal and noisy environments, intention understanding 
(pragmatic and joint attention), non-verbal cues (gestures and facial 
expression decoding), and asymmetric communication are some common 
challenges for interactive systems, and they require efficient verbal 
and non-verbal mechanisms. The CITEC Summer School 2012 will focus on 
such mechanisms from the perspective of experimental psychology, 
computational modelling, gesture studies, animal communication and 
human-machine interaction.

The Graduate School in "Cognitive Interaction Technology“ invites top 
PhD students to apply for our 2012 Summer School entitled "Verbal and 
non-verbal interaction: From experiments to implementation". It will 
take place from 27th to 31st of August 2012 at Bielefeld University 
(arrival 26th August, departure 1st September). The CITEC Summer School 
will consist of plenary lectures held by guest speakers, small-group 
workshops on practical, experimental and theoretical topics taught by 
CITEC researchers, as well as discussion groups, and an activity program.

For the afternoon workshops, you may select one of the following five 
streams:
 > 1. Development of joint action
 > 2. Gesture in communication
 > 3. Multi-modal data recording and analysis
 > 4. Verbal and non-verbal interaction in social neuroscience
 > 5. Distributed cognition and coordination in interaction

The rich curriculum is intended to promote discussions across the 
boundaries of different branches of science, which will be inspired by 
the keynote lectures given by:

Martha Alibali, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin – 
Madison, USA
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of 
Hertfordshire, UK
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan
Katja Liebal, Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", FU Berlin, 
Germany
Ivan Toni, Cognitive Psychology and Motor Cognition, Radboud University 
Nijmegen, NL

Details for the online application:
https://www.cit-ec.de/summerschool/application2012

Deadline for applications is June 20th, 2012.
For more information, please visit: https://www.cit-ec.de/summerschool

Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter - Coordinator of the Center of Excellence CITEC, 
Neuroinformatics Group
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack - Head of Graduate School Cognitive Interaction 
Technology,
Neurocognition and Action - Biomechanics Group
Claudia Muhl - Graduate School Manager


-- 
Yukie Nagai, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University
Visiting Researcher, Bielefeld University
yukie at ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://cnr.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yukie/