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1. Sonja Folker, Processes of Communication - Cognition, Interaction, Robotics

Message 1: Processes of Communication - Cognition, Interaction, Robotics

Date: 24-Jan-2005
From: Sonja Folker <sonja.folker

uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: Processes of Communication - Cognition, Interaction, Robotics

Processes of Communication - Cognition, Interaction, Robotics

Date: 10-Feb-2005 - 11-Feb-2005
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact: Sonja Folker
Contact Email: sonja.folker

uni-bielefeld.de
Meeting URL: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/GK256/workshop2005/index1.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The graduate program 'Task-Oriented Communication' is organizing an
international workshop on 'Processes of Communication'. Interdisciplinarily
oriented, this workshop covers a broad range of topics, from the cognitive
and neural basis of communication to the use of communicational resources
in human-human interaction and its implementation in multimodal
human-machine interaction.

Investigating processes of communication from the perspective of
interactional linguistics (approaches like e.g. conversational analysis and
functional pragmatics) means to focus on the use of communicative resources
in social, especially face-to-face, situations. An analysis of those
interactional settings takes into consideration how the participants
themselves jointly produce and negotiate meaning in situ and how thereby
interactive projects get done step by step through the unfolding course of
action.

A central concern is to understand how participants make use of the diverse
communicational resources (language, prosody, gaze, gesture, body display)
and material objects at hand and how the holistic organisation of these
resources can analytically be conceived of as one gestalt.

The ability of processing language and participating in communicational
processes via speech distinguishes humans from other species. These
abilities necessarily involve an extreme complex activation of the
individual's receptive and productive capacities and the underlying
linguistic representations. Another focus of the workshop will therefore
lie on the cognitive and neural processes that provide the general basis of
communication.

Central investigation methods and results are presented, comprising
fundamental as well as applied research areas. Special emphasis will be
given to functions and dysfunctions on the cerebral level on the one hand
and learning processes on the other hand.

Another focus of our workshop deals with the development of systems capable
of natural multi-modal human-machine interaction. One prerequisite for this
is the adequate representation of meanings and actions as well as the
representation and analysis of higher-level interaction structures (e.g.
dialogue structures). To achieve the goal of improving multi-modal
interaction it is necessary to analyse mutual reactions in human machine
and human robot communication. Therefore, it is advisable to develop
learning strategies to detect and interpret actions, gaze, gestures, and
emotions, as well as speech in order to derive meaning from perception.
Furthermore, considering the context of the communication situation is a
relevant task.

For detailed information on the workshop program see:
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/GK256/workshop2005/program.html
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