Programme




 9.00 -  9.10Welcome and Introduction
 9.10 -  10.00Keynote: Robots that can learn new words and their grounded meanings through dialogues
Mikio Nakano
 10.00 - 10.30Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction for Service Robots in Home-Care Environments
Stefan Goetze, Sven Fischer, Niko Moritz, Jens-E. Appell and Frank Wallhoff
 10.30 - 11.00Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30Integration of Multimodal Interaction as Assistance in Virtual Environments
Kiran Pala, Ram Naresh, Sachin Joshi and Suryakanth V Ganagshetty
11.30 - 12.00Toward a Virtual Assistant for Users with Special Needs: Designing Careful Interaction
Ramin Yaghoubzadeh and Stefan Kopp
12.00 - 12.30Speech and Gesture Interaction in an Ambient Assisted Living Lab
Dimitra Anastasiou, Cui Jian and Desislava Zhekova
12.30 - 14.00Lunch break
14.00 - 14.30Reduction of Non-stationary Noise for a Robotic Living Assistant using Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Benjamin Cauchi, Stefan Goetze and Simon Doclo
14.30 - 15.00Towards a Self-Learning Assistive Vocal Interface: Vocabulary and Grammar Learning
Janneke van de Loo, Jort F. Gemmeke, Guy De Pauw, Joris Driesen, Hugo Van hamme and Walter Daelemans
15.00 - 15.30A Bengali Speech Synthesizer on Android OS
Sankar Mukherjee and Shyamal Kumar Das Mandal
15.30 - 16.00Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30Discussion and Conclusion
18:00 Dinner with participants at a restaurant (costs not included in the workshop fees)



All talks are planned as 20 min. presentation and 10 min. discussion blocks. Please, note that the programme might undergo changes, thus, check for updates before the conference!