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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">*** WORKSHOP POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT ***</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Call for posters: GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Workshop 2023 at ICMI</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Date: October 9, 2023</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Location: Sorbonne University, Paris, France</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Website: </span><a href="https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/#call-for-posters"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/workshop/#call-for-posters</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">***************************************************************************************************/</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Important dates</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">*********************</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aug 18, 2023 - Poster-session submission deadline</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sep 1, 2023 - Notification of poster acceptance</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oct 9, 2023 - In-person workshop at ICMI</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overview</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">*********************</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GENEA 2023 is the fourth GENEA Workshop and an official workshop of ACM ICMI ’23, which will take place in Paris, France.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poster topics include (but are not limited to) the following</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">********************</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Automated synthesis of facial expressions, gestures, and gaze movements</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audio- and music-driven nonverbal behaviour synthesis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Closed-loop nonverbal behaviour generation (from perception to action)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonverbal behaviour synthesis in two-party and group interactions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emotion-driven and stylistic nonverbal behaviour synthesis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New datasets related to nonverbal behaviour</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Believable nonverbal behaviour synthesis using motion-capture and 4D scan data</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-modal nonverbal behaviour synthesis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interactive/autonomous nonverbal behavior generation</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subjective and objective evaluation methods for nonverbal behaviour synthesis</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guidelines for nonverbal behaviours in human-agent interaction</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Submission guidelines</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">*********************</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to submit: Please submit your poster draft (in PDF format) here (</span><a href="https://forms.gle/4moUyfaKTcvrsUAaA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://forms.gle/4moUyfaKTcvrsUAaA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). 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.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keynote speakers</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel McDonnell, Associate Professor in Creative Technologies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sean Andrist, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Organisers</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youngwoo Yoon ETRI, South Korea, </span><a href="mailto:youngwoo@etri.re.kr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">youngwoo@etri.re.kr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taras Kucherenko SEED, Electronic Arts, Sweden, </span><a href="mailto:tkucherenko@ea.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tkucherenko@ea.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pieter Wolfert Ghent University, Belgium, </span><a href="mailto:pieter.wolfert@ugent.be"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pieter.wolfert@ugent.be</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rajmund Nagy KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, </span><a href="mailto:rajmundn@kth.se"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rajmundn@kth.se</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jieyeon Woo Sorbonne University, France, </span><a href="mailto:woo@isir.upmc.fr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">woo@isir.upmc.fr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gustav Eje Henter KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, </span><a href="mailto:ghe@kth.se"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ghe@kth.se</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The main contact address of the workshop is: </span><a href="mailto:genea-contact@googlegroups.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">genea-contact@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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