Program

The workshop program will include poster sessions, shout-outs (2-3 minutes presentation of problems or challenges followed by 15 minutes of open discussion) as well as invited talks. After the workshop there will be an evening program (dinner and kegeln at OWLs Bar & Restaurant).

Invited Speakers:

• Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University)

  • When did gesture go astray? The status quo in generating meaningful multimodal behavior

• Maximilian Spliethöver (Leibniz University Hannover)

  • NLG to the Rescue? Detecting and Mitigating Social Bias with NLG

• Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University)

  • Guidelines for Image Descriptions for Blind or Visually Impaired People

• Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University)

  • Human Signals in the Integration of Vision and Language in Deep Neural Networks

• Casey Kennington (Boise State University)

  • Generating Robotic Sequences using LLMs

Posters:

• Erkan Basar

• Milena Belosevic

• Bastian Bunzeck

• Simeon Junker

• Clara Lachenmaier

• Lina Mavrina

• Amelie Sophie Robrecht

• Judith Sieker

• Aditya Kaushik Surikuchi

Preliminary Program:

9.00 Arrival / Welcome address
Room: "Nordlicht" Event Restaurant / Building X

9:30-10:15 Invited Talk: Stefan Kopp 

10:15-11:00 Invited Talk: Maximilian Spliethöver

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 Poster Session

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:15 Invited Talk: Emiel van Miltenburg

14:15-14:30 Coffee Break 

14:30-15:30 Shout-Outs

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Invited Talk: Ece Takmaz

16:45-17:30 Invited Talk: Casey Kennington

17:30 Closing Remarks