Dear List,
Workshop on
Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2017): Call for Papers
WOCCI 2017 Workshop at ICMI 2017
Monday, November 13, 2017
Deadline for paper submission: July 17, 2017 (papers can be revised until July 24, 2017)
Paper submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocci2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th meeting of the Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2017) will be held as an ICMI 2017 workshop on Monday, November 13, 2017, in Glasgow, Scotland. The WOCCI workshop is sponsored by ISCA's Special Interest Group on Child Computer Interaction, SIG-CHILD (http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/sigs?id=129 ).
WOCCI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. WOCCI provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science, computer vision, robotics, speech processing, linguistics and application areas such as medicine and education. Various state-of-the-art systems can be presented here as key components for next generation child-centered computer interaction. Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core well-being of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities and individualized attention. The workshop will serve as a venue for presenting recent advances in core technologies as well as experimental systems and prototypes.
Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the workshop. The technical scope of the workshop includes, but it is not limited to:
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee welcomes submissions of papers 4 - 6 pages in length, formatted according to the Interspeech 2017 style guidelines:
http://www.interspeech2017.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/ 11/IS2017_paper_kit.zip
Submissions can be made at the WOCCI 2017 EasyChair submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocci2017
The technical committee will select papers for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in the ISCA archive:
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/online-archive
WOCCI 2017 reviewing will be double-blind; accordingly, paper submissions should not include the authors' names and affiliations.
IMPORTANT DATES
July 17, 2017: Initial paper submission deadline (title and authors should not be changed after this date)
July 24, 2017: Final paper submission deadline
August 21, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
September 18, 2017: Camera-ready paper submission deadline
November 13, 2017: WOCCI 2017 Workshop at ICMI
WEBSITES
WOCCI 2017: http://www.wocci.org/
WOCCI 2017 submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocci2017
ICMI 2017: https://icmi.acm.org/2017/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA (Chairperson of SIG-CHILD)
Maryam Najafian, CSAIL Lab, MIT, Cmabrige, USA (Co-secretary of SIG-CHILD)
Saeid Safavi, School of Engineering and Technology, University of Hertfordshire, UK (Co-secretary of SIG-CHILD)
Kay Berkling, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany (Past chair advisory of SIG-CHILD)
SPONSORS
Disney Research - Silver Sponsor