Swedish Workshop on Conversational AI
November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024
The Swedish Workshop on Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from academia and industry to discuss the latest advancements and challenges in the field of conversational artificial intelligence, dialogue systems, human-robot interaction and intelligent agents. The workshop seeks to foster collaboration, share cutting-edge research, and explore the practical applications of conversational AI technologies in various domains. Key objectives include:
- Presenting recent research findings and innovations in conversational AI.
- Discussing practical applications, challenges, and future directions.
- Encouraging collaboration between academia and industry.
- Providing a platform for networking and knowledge exchange.
The workshop can be seen as a follow-up on (and a replacement to) the Swedish Dialogue Workshop, which has been running since almost 20 years.
The workshop will be a co-located with SLTC at Linköping University on November 29, 2024.
The workshop will take place in lecture room Systemet (before lunch) and in von Neumann (after lunch) .
Fika and Lunch will be served in Ljusgården.
We welcome participants from both academia and industry. We invite submissions of abstracts that will be presented orally. Since the main purpose of the presentations is to spark discussions and disseminate work on Conversational AI in Sweden, they will not be considered archival. Thus, we allow for a large variety of contributions, including work that has or will be presented elsewhere, work-in-progress, opinions, or demonstrations.
You can register through this form, regardless of whether you would like to present or not. Registration is free of charge. Lunch and coffee will be provided.
Registration deadline if you wish to present is November 15.
Registration deadline if you do not wish to present is November 22.
Each presenter will be given 15 minutes of talk + 5 minues of questions.
9:30 Fika in Ljusgården
10:10 Welcome
10:20 Staffan Larsson (GU): Pre-Generative Conversational AI in Talkamatic Studio
10:40 Vladislav Maraev (GU): SISU: Statecharts meet Information State Update approach
11:00 Gabriel Skantze (KTH): Applying general models of turn-taking to human-robot interaction
11:20 Ruben Janssens (Ghent): Visual Conversation Starters: multi-modal conversations for social robots
11:40 André Pereira (KTH): Multimodal User Enjoyment Detection in Human-Robot Conversation: The Power of Large Language Models
12:00 Lunch (sponsored by WARA M&L) in Ljusgården
13:30 Daniel Gillblad (Recorded Future / AI Sweden): A bottom up approach to real-world agentic systems
13:50 Siyang Wang (KTH): Speech synthesis for spoken dialogue system: better evaluation leads to better models
14:10 Somayeh Jafaritazehjnai (UmU): An Extensible Framework for Real-Time Conversational Avatars
14:30 Arzu Guneysu (UmU): Empowering Families: Leveraging Conversational AI to Support Families of Children with Autism
14:50 Sanna Kuoppamäki (KTH): Facilitating positive body image through the application of conversational AI with young adults
15:10 Fika in Ljusgården
15:40 Charlotte Stinkeste (KTH): Exploring how social AI and robots affect human decision-making during an interaction
16:00 Lucy McCarren (KTH): A LLM-based chatbot for mindfulness practice with older adults: A development and usability study
16:20 Jens Edlund (KTH): Dialog with trucks
16:40 Anna Deichler (KTH): MM-Conv: A Multi-Modal Conversational Dataset for Virtual Humans
17:00 Closing
Gabriel Skantze, Professor at KTH and co-founder Furhat Robotics
Daniel Gillblad, Chief of AI at Recorded Future, co-Director of Scientific Vision for AI Sweden
Johanna Björklund, Assoc. Prof. at Umeå University and Director WARA Media & Language