4 関連学会: 2008年6月アーカイブ
The 12th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held from June 19th to June 22nd, 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan (Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University). This is the first time for a ASSC annual meeting to be held in Asia. ASSC12 provides a chance for you to see Taipei and Taiwan, an island nation with a newly born democracy in Asia. Taipei offers an interesting combination of eastern and western cultures. Taiwan has recently been selected by the National Geographic Traveler Magazine as "probably the best traveling destination in Asia" among the 111 islands evaluated. The meeting promises to be both intellectually stimulating and culturally interesting!
ASSC12 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal of the conference is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its forms.
Confirmed speakers:
Presidential Address:
David Rosenthal, City University of New York, USA
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Metzinger, The Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany,
topic: The Self
Mitsuo Kawato, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International, Japan,
topic: Engineering Consciousness
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Japan,
topic: The Mind of the Chimpanzee
Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute,USA,
topic: Microsaccades: Windows on the Mind
Symposium Speakers:
Ned Block, New York University, USA
Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sid Kouider, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Barbara Jones, McGill University, Canada
Donald Pfaff, Rockefeller University, USA
Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium
Adrian Owen, University of Cambridge, UK
Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
Shaul Hochstein, Life Sciences Institute and Neural Computation Center, Israel
Tim Bayne, University of Oxford, UK
Ryan McKay, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ian Gold, McGill University, Canada
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
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THE SECOND CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 1, 2008!
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Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Submissions that include anthropological, evolutionary, physiological, psychological, philosophical, or computational perspectives are all welcome. Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please specify preference). Any person may present only one submission, but may be co-author on more than one.
Submit by filling out the appropriate forms at: http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
You will be asked to include with your submission the following information:
1. Title.
2. Name, affiliation, with presenting co-author(s) designated.
3. An abstract of up to 350 words.
4. Complete contact information for the author with whom the scientific
program committee will interact with about the submission
5. Whether your first preference is for an talk or poster presentation
6. Whether your topic is a scientific or philosophical presentation
If you have any difficulties in submitting your proposal, or any other questions regarding the meeting, please contact assc12@ym.edu.tw.
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REGISTRATION
OPEN ON FEB. 1, 2008
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As in previous years, discounted registration will be available to ASSC members, who will also enjoy a range of book discounts and other member benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the cost of membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join ASSC now! To find out more about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult our website at http://assc.caltech.edu/
Registration will open on Feb. 1, 2008.
All questions about paper/poster submissions should be directed to the official conference email address: assc12@ym.edu.tw.
LIBM'08 - First Call for Papers
First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement
Asahikawa Convention Bureau, Hokkaido, Japan, June 10, 2008
in conjunction with JSAI2008: the 22nd National Meeting of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
Website- http://www.teu.ac.jp/iap/LIBM08/
** Paper due: 24 March 2008 --> 1 April 2008 (Submission deadline has been extended!)**
LIBM'08 is the First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement, which is in conjunction with the 22nd National Meeting of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2008) in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, on June 10, 2008.
Scope
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Laughter takes a great role in leading a social life for humans. It not only comes out as just a physiological phenomenon, but is ingeniously designed and created as a resource for constructing a social relationship or bringing about smooth communication. Social laughter cannot be created by a single person but by a collaborative activity among participants in a conversation. Furthermore, configuration and body movements of the participants also comprise the essential factors of laughter besides linguistic ones.
Such an emotive factor as laughter thus cannot be overlooked when we establish a smooth social relationship with computers. However, though human-computer interaction (HCI) has recently become familiar in everyday life, it is on rather limited occasions that HCI makes positive use of laughter.
This workshop focuses attention on the phenomenon of laughter in interactions and body movements of participants. In particular, it focuses on what physical/cognitive factors and conditions socially enact laughing situations or moments, and on how laughter is perceived and utilized as a resource for social interaction by participants. Therefore, this workshop does not treat the laughter itself, but rather aims at clarifying the structure of the social or communicative environment surrounding laughter, which would become the basis for constructing socially smooth and natural HCI.
We thus encourage the submission of papers that address any theme related to the above. Moreover, the papers on the modeling of how to realize natural body movements of a robot or an embodied conversational agent in social interaction with humans are also welcomed.
Topics
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According to the scope of this workshop above, topics of interest
include but are not limited to:
*laughter and smile in conversation
*realizing body movements of a natural and emotive robot/agent
*pragmatic meaning and effects of laughter
*organization of laughter in interaction and communication
*laughter recognition for emotive computing
*humor recognition/realization in multi-modal communication
*laughter-synchronizing in multi-party conversation
*stand-up comedy as 'open communication'
*creating/utilizing humor in human-computer interaction
*body movements of laughmakers or comedians
*humorous interaction in stand-up comedy/team comedy
*what to become a trigger of waves of laughter in audiences
Important Dates
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First paper submission: March 24, 2008
Camera-ready submission: April 23, 2008
Workshop date: June 10, 2008
Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to the following Springer's format and should be 4-6 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices):
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/
0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
Once accepted, papers may be revised and extended to 8 pages in preparation for publication in the post-proceedings as selected papers as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer.
Papers should be submitted by email to libm08@mls.teu.ac.jp.
For further information about the workshop, please visit the website or contact the organisers at libm08@mls.teu.ac.jp.
Registration Fee
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5,000 yen (This registration fee covers a workshop text.) Cash and Credit Card (VISA and Master only) are accepted on site.
Workshop Organizers
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WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Hitoshi Iida (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Masashi Okamoto (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
Mika Enomoto (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Partial List):
Mayumi Bono (UCLA, USA / JSPS, Japan)
Yasuharu Den (Chiba University, Japan)
Hiromichi Hosoma (The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan)
Masato Ohba (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
Mamiko Sakata (Doshisha University, Japan)
Katsuya Takanashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
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