This half-day workshop introduce the state-of-the-art technologies on HCI for symbiotic society. They come from team-oriented research programs (CREST）; “Symbiotic Interaction” and “Harmonious Collaboration” between human and computers, organized by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
This workshop, therefore, focuses on advanced interaction, called “symbiotic interaction,” and its intelligent systems with “harmonious collaboration” between human and computers for the symbiotic society. The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has started a new research program to create and develop the core technologies that realize the symbiotic interaction based on understanding and designing interactions in a symbiotic society; “Symbiotic Interaction: Creation and development of core technologies interfacing human and information environments” in 2017 as an © 2018. Copyright for the individual papers remains with the authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes.
SymCollab '18, March 11, Tokyo, Japan.
5.5 year project of the CREST, team-oriented research
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This workshop will introduce several research projects in these two CREST programs. It is also open for the presentations of the following topics that may be the candidates of future research proposals.
interaction with intelligent agents, robots, etc., interaction design for intelligent systems; self-driving cars and smart homes, networked life-logging environments
Co-experience knowledge and wisdom with harmonious human-machine collaboration, services with human-robot interaction and collaboration, wearable sensors, and the development of an open platform using the state-of-the-art technologies OUTLINE OF THE WORKSHOP The workshop program will start from overview of two CREST programs: “Harmonious collaboration” by professor Norihiro Hagita and “Symbiotic Interaction” between human and computers, professor Kenji Mase, respectively. Professor Daniel Gatica-Perez from Idiap research institute, Switzer-land will give a keynote talk about multimodal interaction and then position and full paper sessions. We have two full papers and six position papers. The accepted papers covered the broad range of areas targeted by the CREST programs. In the area of Human Augmentation, Koike et al. proposed a skill acquisition mechanism and developed Skill Transfer systems. Fang et al. proposed an Interactive Selfie application in which crowdsourcing-based learning is utilized to define good head postures. In the topic of Ambient Intelligence, Nakazawa introduced a project that aims to understand and support the tender care skill Humanitude, and Watanabe et al. proposed a concept: “Implicit Ambient Surface Information” (IASI), which was applied to measuring athlete’s physiological states and body movements. There are two papers concerning the topic of Fundamental interaction theory and modeling. Tsuda et al. introduced a project focusing on the principle of Emerging Interactions that produces functional differentiation via interaction with complex environment. Tomiyama et al. proposed a model for Discourse Segmentation for group discussions using deep learning. For co-experience knowledge and wisdom, Satake and Kanda reported a situation where robot activity is interrupted by children and claimed the necessity of Moral Interaction in human-robot interaction. A paper by Suzuki described the overview of Social Imaging technologies and its application to empower people with social impairments.
Yukiko Nakano: Yukiko Nakano is a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Seikei University, Japan, and leading the Intelligent User Interface Laboratory (IUI lab). She received her M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo, Japan. With the goal of allowing more natural human-computer interaction, she has addressed issues on modelling conversations by analyzing human verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors, and developing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces (MCIs) based on the empirical models. http://www.ci.seikei.ac.jp/nakano/index_e.html SENIOR ADVISORS Minoru Asada (Osaka University, JAPAN)
Andreas Bulling (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap research institute, Switzerland)
ACKNOWLEGDEMENT This workshop and its presented works have been supported by JST CREST. We thank to all the PC members: Dragan Ahmetovic (CMU, USA), Takashi Miyaki (University of Tokyo, Japan), Atsushi Nakazawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Nick Rhinehart (CMU, USA), Satoru Satake (ATR, Japan), Yonghao Yue (University of Tokyo, Japan), and Xucong Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany). They took their great effort to review the submitted papers.