WTF 2023: Working with Trouble and Failures in conversation between humans and robots
Dates and Submission
The workshop will take place on the first day of CUI, and we be held at ATLAS room 2.215 on the campus of Einhoven University of Technology. For more information see the venue information on the CUI website.
Dates:
Submission deadline for abstracts (extended)*: 05/06/2023 19/06/2023
Notification of acceptance*: 12/06/2023 and 23/06/2023
Early registration deadline for CUI: 15/06/2023
Date of the workshop: 19/07/2023
* Note that abstracts submitted by the 9th of June will be evaluated early and feedback will be given on the 12th such that the early registration deadline can be met.
Submissions
We invite submissions of 2 to 3-page extended abstracts documenting, describing, or theorizing about conversational failures and (multimodal) repair mechanisms in human-robot conversations. Authors of extended abstracts will be expected to present their work during the bash talks session, where the presentations can happen both on-site or virtually.
One of the outcomes of the first workshop was the need for a taxonomy or taxonomies of conversational failures in human-robot interaction. Very welcome are therefore also submissions that propose, analyze or theorize about either new or existing taxonomies of adjacent areas of research.
Also of interest are proposals for situated benchmarks scenarios that would be suitable to reliably elicit or trigger such failures.
More generally we welcome submissions that fall into these areas:
Multi-modal communication & dialogue systems
Human-robot communication design, and interaction design more generally
Speech interfaces
Joint action research
Pragmatics & Conversation Analysis
Shared meaning understanding
Natural language processing
Speech recognition
Failure recovery
Abstracts should be written using the ACM LaTeX or Word templates, preferably in the sigconf format (Overleaf template), should be between 2 and 3 pages, and should be submitted via Easychair (see link below).
Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers, and the authors of suitable submissions will be notified of their acceptance on the date stated above.
Authors will be given the option of having their workshop contributions published via Workshop proceedings on arXiv.
We are also currently in the process of organizing a special issue and suitable contributions will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to that special issue. Details of this will be published here once known.
> Link to Easychair submission portal
