WTF 2022: Working with Trouble and Failures in conversation between humans and robots


Schedule

Virtual part of workshop (16th & 17th of June)

Day 1 (10:00 - 13:00 BST):

Welcome (10 min)
Keynote 1:
Patrick Healey: "Running repairs: Coordinating meaning in dialogue" (40+15 min)
Bash talks part 1 (~ 2-3 min): In these talks the participants will present their WTF moments
Break (10 min)
Bash talks part 2
Breakout groups (20-25 min)
Goodbye (5 min)

Day 2 (10:00 - 13:00 BST)

Keynote 2: Saul Albert: "Repair, recruitment, and (virtual) agency in a smart homecare setting" (40+15 min)
Break (10 min)
Presentations of issues identified on Day 1 (5-10 min per breakout group)
Break (10 min)
Meta discussion (20 min)
Info about the in-person attendance (5-10 min)
Goodbye (5 min)

Face-to-Face part of workshop (5th of September)

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote 1:
Gabriel Skantze: "Building Common Ground in Human-Robot Interaction"
11:00 - 12:30 Bash Talks: WTF Moments (5 minutes per presentation)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2: Ioannis Papaioannou: "Tackling the challenges of Open-Domain Conversational AI Systems"
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:30
World Café Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Concluding Remarks