Programme

Following you can find the program for the the full-day workshop. 

Participants can join in person or remotely, as far as they register to the main conference or the conference workshops. 

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Welcome and Introduction

• Workshop organizers welcome participants and provide an overview of the day's agenda.

• Introduction of the workshop's objectives and topics

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM: 1st Keynote Speaker (Prof. Maja Mataric´) - "Socially Assistive Robotics as a Path to Accessible Personalized Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Therapy Support"

• The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM: Coffee Break

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM: Accepted Papers' Presentation

• Authors of accepted papers present their research findings related to multimodal conversational agents. All papers will have 7 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion (total 12 minutes). Each presentation will be followed by a short Q&A session.

• Here is the order of the presentations:

  1. Using Implicit Measures to Assess User Experience in Children: A Case Study on the Application of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) by Eleonora Aida Beccaluva, Marta Curreri, Giulia Da Lisca, Pietro Corvari (in person)

  2. Design of Generative Multimodal AI Agents to enable Persons with Learning Disability by Rajagopal A, Nirmala V, Immanuel Johnraja Jebadurai, Arun Muthuraj Vedamanickam, Prajakta Uthaya Kumar (online)

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM: 2nd Keynote Speaker (Prof. Benjamin R. Cowan) - "Conversational Interfaces: Where we are and where we need to be"

• The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM: Lunch Break

1:15 AM - 2:45 PM: Interactive Panel Discussion: "Future Research Directions and Collaborations"

• An interactive session where participants can ask questions, share ideas, and explore potential collaborations.

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Closing Remarks

• Workshop organizers summarize the key takeaways from the day's discussions.

• Express gratitude to the speakers, participants, and sponsors.

3:00 AM - 3:20 PM: Coffee and Closing Greetings