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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">/***************************************************************************************************</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Call for papers: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Nonverbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2021<br>
Date: 18–22 October, 2021 (Exact date to be defined)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2021/<br>
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Important dates<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Jul 12, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Overview<br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Generating nonverbal 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">This workshop asks “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 nonverbal behaviours for embodied agents to discuss the future of this field. To kickstart these discussions, we invite all interested researchers to submit a paper for presentation
at the workshop.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">GENEA 2021 is the second GENEA workshop and an official workshop of ACM ICMI’21, which will take place either in Montreal, Canada, or online. Accepted submissions will be included in the
adjunct ACM ICMI proceedings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Paper topics include (but are not limited to) the following<br>
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Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Audio- and music-driven nonverbal behaviour synthesis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Closed-loop nonverbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Nonverbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Emotion-driven and stylistic nonverbal behaviour synthesis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
New datasets related to nonverbal behaviour<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Believable nonverbal behaviour synthesis using motion-capture and 4D scan data<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Multi-modal nonverbal behaviour synthesis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Interactive/autonomous nonverbal behavior generation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Subjective and objective evaluation methods for nonverbal behaviour synthesis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Guidelines for nonverbal behaviours in human-agent interaction<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">For papers specifically on the topic of healthcare, whether for generating or understanding nonverbal behaviours, consider submitting to the workshop on Socially-Informed AI for Healthcare,
also taking place at ICMI’21. The website of that workshop can be found at: </span>
<span style="background:white">https://social-ai-for-healthcare.github.io/rbal </span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Submission guidelines<br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Please format submissions for double-blind review according to the ACM conference format.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">We will accept long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) paper submissions, along with posters (3 page papers), all in the double-column ACM conference format. Pages containing only references do
not count toward the page limit for any of the paper types. Submissions should be made in PDF format through OpenReview.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Keynote speakers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">********************************</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Louis-Philippe Morency (CMU, USA)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Hatice Gunesh (University of Cambridge, UK)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Organisers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">********************************</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Taras Kucherenko,<b>
</b></span><span style="color:black">KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Zerrin Yumak,<span style="color:black"> Utrecht University, The Netherlands</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Gustav Eje Henter,<b>
</b></span><span style="color:black">KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Pieter Wolfert,<b>
</b></span><span style="color:black">Ghent University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Youngwoo Yoon,<b>
</b></span><span style="color:black">ETRI / KAIST, South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Patrik Jonell,<b>
</b></span><span style="color:black">KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span>
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<span style="color:black">The main contact address of the workshop is: <u>genea-contact@googlegroups.com</u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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