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2010 Workshop on Companionable Dialogue Systems (CDS-2010)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, July 15, 2010

09:00–10:30Invited Paper Session
09:00–09:15Welcome
09:15–10:30Invited Paper
 Do’s and Don’ts for Software Companions, by David Traum
10:30–11:00Morning Break
 Session I (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:30Episodic Memory for Companion Dialogue
Gregor Sieber and Brigitte Krenn
11:30–12:00MANA for the Ageing
David M W Powers, Martin H Luerssen, Trent W Lewis, Richard E Leibbrandt, Marissa Milne, John Pashalis and Kenneth Treharne
12:00–12:30Is a Companion a Distinctive Kind of Relationship with a Machine?
Yorick Wilks
12:30–14:00Lunch Break
 Session II (14:00–15:30)
14:00–14:30“Hello Emily, How Are You Today?” - Personalised Dialogue in a Toy to Engage Children.
Carole Adam, Lawrence Cavedon and Lin Padgham
14:30–15:00A Robot in the Kitchen
Peter Wallis
15:00–15:30An Embodied Dialogue System with Personality and Emotions
Stasinos Konstantopoulos
15:30–16:00Afternoon Break
 Session III (16:00–17:00)
16:00–16:30How Was Your Day?
Stephen Pulman, Johan Boye, Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith and Raúl Santos de la Cámara
16:30–17:00VCA: An Experiment with a Multiparty Virtual Chat Agent
Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Sarah Taylor and Nick Webb
17:00–17:30Wrap up discussion of the day’s issues
 Workshop ends (17:30)