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The Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction will be held in Chania, on the island of Crete, on October 23, 2008. The Workshop is a satellite event of the Tenth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) that will take place in the same venue on October 20-22, 2008.

This Workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces.

Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centred computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve as a venue for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

For more details please refer to WOCCI 2008 website.