[agents] Call for posters: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2023 at ICMI

[Jieyeon Woo]

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[Apologies for the possible multiple copies of this announcement]

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Call for posters: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal 
Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2023 at ICMI
Date: October 9, 2023

Location: Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Website: 
https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/#call-for-posters [1]
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Important dates
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Aug 18, 2023 - Poster-session submission deadline

Sep 1, 2023   - Notification of poster acceptance

Oct 9, 2023    - In-person workshop at ICMI

Overview
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GENEA 2023 is the fourth GENEA Workshop and an official workshop of ACM 
ICMI '23, which will take place in Paris, France.

Generating non-verbal behaviours, such as gesticulation, facial 
expressions and gaze, is of great importance for natural interaction 
with embodied agents such as virtual agents and social robots. At 
present, behaviour generation is typically powered by rule-based 
systems, data-driven approaches, and their hybrids. For evaluation, both 
objective and subjective methods exist, but their application and 
validity are frequently a point of contention.

The poster session is part of the GENEA workshop asking, "What will be 
the behaviour-generation methods of the future? And how can we evaluate 
these methods using meaningful objective and subjective metrics?" The 
aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the 
generation and evaluation of non-verbal behaviours for embodied agents 
to discuss the future of this field. To kickstart these discussions, we 
invite all interested researchers to share their work at the workshop.

This open poster session is for advertising your late-breaking results 
and already-published work to the community. No paper submission is 
needed to participate in the poster session, and these posters will not 
be part of any proceedings (non archival).

Poster topics include (but are not limited to) the following
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  	* Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze 
movements
  	* Audio- and music-driven nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  	* Closed-loop nonverbal behaviour generation (from perception to 
action)
  	* Nonverbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions
  	* Emotion-driven and stylistic nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  	* New datasets related to nonverbal behaviour
  	* Believable nonverbal behaviour synthesis using motion-capture and 4D 
scan data
  	* Multi-modal nonverbal behaviour synthesis
  	* Interactive/autonomous nonverbal behavior generation
  	* Subjective and objective evaluation methods for nonverbal behaviour 
synthesis
  	* Guidelines for nonverbal behaviours in human-agent interaction

Submission guidelines
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  	* Poster format: 1-page poster (no larger than A0 size; portrait is 
recommended). There is no specific template. The poster can be designed 
as you want.
  	* How to submit: Please submit your poster draft (in PDF format) here 
(https://forms.gle/4moUyfaKTcvrsUAaA [2]). We will acknowledge your 
submission within 24 hours. The submission deadline is 23:59, August 18, 
2023 (Anywhere on Earth timezone). We will get back to you no later than 
September 1 to let you know if we are able to accommodate your poster at 
the event.

Keynote speakers

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Rachel McDonnell, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies, Trinity 
College Dublin, Ireland

Sean Andrist, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, 
Washington, USA

Organisers

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Youngwoo Yoon ETRI, South Korea, youngwoo at etri.re.kr

Taras Kucherenko SEED, Electronic Arts, Sweden, tkucherenko at ea.com

Pieter Wolfert Ghent University, Belgium, pieter.wolfert at ugent.be

Rajmund Nagy KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, rajmundn at kth.se

Jieyeon Woo Sorbonne University, France, woo at isir.upmc.fr

Gustav Eje Henter KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, ghe at kth.se

The main contact address of the workshop is: 
genea-contact at googlegroups.com



Links:
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[1] https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/#call-for-posters
[2] https://forms.gle/4moUyfaKTcvrsUAaA

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