[agents] CFP: Journal of Advanced Robotics: Special Issue: Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems

[Shogo Okada]

Dear all,

It is my great pleasure to announce that we have a special issue on
"Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems" in the journal of
Advanced Robotics (Taylor&Francis). Please consider submitting your
original paper to this special issue. The deadline is 31 Jan. 2023.

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/advanced-robotics-multimodal-processing/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPG15743
https://www.rsj.or.jp/content/files/pub/ar/CFP/CFP_37_21.pdf

I would also appreciate it if you could help distributing the CFP and
encourage your colleagues to make submissions.
Best regards,

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[Call for Papers]
Advanced Robotics Special Issue on
Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems
Co-Editors:
Prof. David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)
Prof. Gabriel Skantze (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Prof. Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
Prof. Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr. Takashi Minato (RIKEN/ATR, Japan)
Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Osaka University, Japan)

Publication in Vol. 37, Issue 21 (Nov 2023)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 Jan  2023
In recent years, as seen in smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon
Alexa, there has been remarkable progress in spoken dialogue systems
technology to converse with users with human-like utterances. In the
future, such dialogue systems are expected to support our daily activities
in various ways. However, dialogue in daily activities is more complex than
that with smart speakers; even with current spoken dialogue technology, it
is still difficult to maintain a successful dialogue in various situations.
For example, in customer service through dialogue, it is necessary for
operators to respond appropriately to the different ways of speaking and
requests of various customers. In such cases, we humans can switch the
speaking manner depending on the type of customer, and we can successfully
perform the dialogue by not only using our voice but also our gaze and
facial expressions.
This type of human-like interaction is far from possible with the existing
spoken dialogue systems. Humanoid robots have the possibility to realize
such an interaction, because they can recognize not only the user's voice
but also facial expressions and gestures using various sensors, and can
express themselves in various ways such as gestures and facial expressions
using their bodies. Their many means of expressions have the potential to
successfully continue dialogue in a manner different from conventional
dialogue systems.
The combination of such robots and dialogue systems can greatly expand the
possibilities of dialogue systems, while at the same time, providing a
variety of new challenges. Various research and development efforts are
currently underway to address these new challenges, including "dialogue
robot competition" at IROS2022.
In this special issue, we invite a wide range of papers on multimodal
dialogue systems and dialogue robots, their applications, and fundamental
research. Prospective contributed papers are invited to cover, but are not
limited to, the following topics on multimodal dialogue systems and robots:

*Spoken dialogue processing
*Multimodal processing
*Speech recognition
*Text-to-speech
*Emotion recognition
*Motion generation
*Facial expression generation
*System architecture
*Natural language processing
*Knowledge representation
*Benchmarking
*Evaluation method
*Ethics
*Dialogue systems and robots for competition
Submission:
The full-length manuscript (either PDF file or MS word file) should be sent
by 31st Jan 2023 to the office of Advanced Robotics, the Robotics Society
of Japan through the on-line submission system of the journal (
https://www.rsj.or.jp/AR/submission). Sample manuscript templates and
detailed instructions for authors are available at the website of the
journal.

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Shogo Okada,  Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Information science,
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292 Japan
TEL 　+81-76-151-1205, FAX  +81-76-151-1149
E-mail : okada-s at jaist.ac.jp
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