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Abbreviation: ME Start date:
April 4, 2007 End date:
April 4, 2007 Location: Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Webpage: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb07
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| Dirk Heylen & Stacy Marsella |
| April 4th, 20071 |
| 1 (Mindful Environments is a one day workshop) |
This year the theme of AISB workshops is on Artificial and Ambient
Intelligence. One of the key paradigms for interaction envisaged for
Ambient Environments does not just involve disappearing computers, but
also a disappearing interface. "Natural interaction", or an
intelligent system that can determine at any time what the inhabitants
of the environment need and long for, constitutes the holy grail of
ambient interaction. In this sense, the environment should be able to
make conjectures of the mental state of users as accurately as
possible - similar to the way we can read the minds of others. Most
computational research to date on detecting the mental state of people
have failed to consider the full range of mental states that people
display in natural interactions and the full range of displays of the
various mental states. They have not been able to capture how humans
communicate their intentions, the intricacies of mental life and have
often ignored ecological validity. This workshop would like to address
the question how to go beyond the rather simplistic notions regarding
natural interaction in mindful environments. In order to be able to
build such systems, we need to integrate the knowledge we have about
how people show what's on their mind and how people go about building
theories of what goes on in the minds of others. One of the aims of
this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of
researchers to discuss the state of the art of the research on the
study of theory of mind (in particular in human communicaiton) and on
computational modeling and system building that is directed towards
the ability to recognize and represent the intentions and other
aspects of the mental state of a person interacting with others and
with computational systems in an (ambient) environment. Another aim of
this workshop is to discuss how the computational models could inform
empirical and theoretical research in human social processes, through
formalization and simulation, for instance.
Some of the kinds of studies of interest are the following:
- Studies of behaviors and the models of behavior that people
display in interacting with each other and the environment. How can we
really tell what goes on into another person's mind? What cues do
people use and how can we rely on them? How can the features be
detected? What is needed to interpret them?
- Studies into cognitive modeling: alternative theories have been
proposed for how people come to understand beliefs, desires and
intentions of others, a theory of mind. How can we model these
theories? How do current computational models of theory of mind
compare to these theories and how do we evaluate them? How can
computational models and simulations inform knowledge about human
processing and vice versa?
- Studies in system development for the intelligent environment
such as robots and virtual humans. What should a cognitive model of an
intelligent interactive environment look like? What should a
representation of the mind look like? Which categories need to be
represented (intentions, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, action
tendencies)?
To help answer questions like these related to behaviors and modules,
on modeling and simulation-based studies of communication and
cognition, and on system building, we have received
contributions of a variety of disciplines. From researchers studying
natural systems, such as humans, that are equipped with mind-reading
skills to system engineers involved in building computational systems;
from linguistic, psychology, sociology, computational modeling
(simulation, (multi-)agent systems), signal processing, et cetera.
| Final papers due: | March 2, 2007
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| Accepted papers: | |
| Robert Gordon (invited) | The mutual perception of objects as subjects |
| Melanie Baljko, Nell Tenhaaf |
Attribution of Communicative Capacity Among Agents in a Heterogeneous Population |
| Elisabetta Bevacqua, Dirk Heylen, Catherine Pelachaud |
Facial Feedback Signals for ECAs |
| Tibor Bosse, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur |
A Two-level BDI-Agent Model for Theory of Mind and
its Use in Social Manipulation |
| Fiorella de Rosis and Nicole Novielli
| From Language to Thought: Inferring Opinions and Beliefs from Verbal Behavior |
| Jesse Gray, Matt Berlin and Cynthia Breazeal |
Intention Recognition with Divergent Beliefs for Collaborative Robots |
| Pim Haselager, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Pascal Wiggers |
Computing Apparent Mental Causation: A computational Model of the
Self-Attribution of Agency |
| Christopher Peters |
Modelling attentionally- and emotionally-sensitive social agents
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| Michele Piunti, Rino Falcone |
Anticipatory coordination through action observation and behavior
adaptation |
| David V. Pynadath and Stacy C. Marsella |
Minimal Mental Models |
Full papers (pdf) should be sent to both
and
. The lay-out
should comply with the general AISB format.
AISB website: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb07
Workshop website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ME
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