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International Workshop
on Cross-cultural and Culture-specific Aspects of Conversational Backchannels
and Feedback
December 5-7, 2006
Confirmed Attendees Jens Allwood is a Professor of
Linguistics, Gothenburg University, Sweden. He is Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Intercultural communication. He works on functions of feedback,
corpus analysis of feedback systems in several languages esp. Swedish, German
and English, methodology for study of cross-cultural feedback. John Heritage is a
Professor of Sociology, at UCLA. He is the author of Garfinkel and
Ethnomethodology, and The News Interview: Journalists and
Public Figures On the Air (with Steven Clayman), and the editor of
Structures of Social Action (with Max Atkinson), Talk at Work
(with Paul Drew), and Communication in Medical Care (with
Douglas Maynard). He is currently working on a range of topics in
physician-patient interaction, and on presidential press conferences (with
Steven Clayman) Melvin
Shakun is a Professor Emeritus, Stern School of Business, New York
University. He is Editor in Chief of the journal GROUP DECISION AND
NEGOTIATION. He works on group negotiation and evolutionary systems, design
approach to human and agent-based multiparty negotiation. David Novick is an Associate
Vice-Provost & SBC Distinguished Professor in Computer Science,
University of Texas at El Paso. He works on dialogue models, simulation of
dialogue, and development methods for interfaces and their documentation. Nigel Ward is an Associate Professor
of Computer Science, University of Texas, El Paso. He has worked on the
understanding and production of backchannels and acknowledgements, on
the phonetics, prosody, timing, and functions of backchannels in
English, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic, and on teaching
backchanneling skills, largely from a computational perspective. David
Herrera is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of El Paso.
He works on simulation and evaluation of cross-cultural non-verbal
communication. Kristina
Jokinen is an Adjunct Professor of Language
Technology at the University of Helsinki,
and Visiting Professor of Intelligent User Interfaces at the University of
Tartu, Estonia; has worked on multimodal dialogue management, human-computer
interaction and, rational cooperative communication. Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson is an
Assistant Professor Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents,
Reykjavik University, Iceland. He works on computer mediated system for
producing non-verbal behavior in avatars automatically from text and context
of interaction. Previously technical director of the tactical language and
culture training project at ISI. Yasuhiro Katagiri is a Professor
at Future University at Hakodate, Japan (PhD in Information
Engineering), formerly Head of the Media Information Science Labs. He works
on multi-modal, multi-party, and multi-cultural communication. Mark Core is a Research Scientist
at ICT, USC. He has worked on parsing of hesitations and repairs, dialogue
managers, tutorial dialogue systems, explainable AI dialogue systems. Dushan
Jan is a Ph.D. Student at University of Southern California. He works on
simulation of cultural non-verbal behavior. Anton Nijholt is a
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
He coordinates the Human Media
Interaction research group. He works on multi-party
interaction, multimodal interaction and entertainment computing. Dirk Heylen is a
Computational Linguist at the Computer Science Department at the
University of Twente in the Human Media Interaction research group. He
works on emotion and attitude classification based on verbal and
nonverbal cues, virtual humans, and group decision support systems. His
work on the analysis and synthesis of nonverbal communication in (multiparty)
conversations has been concerned with gaze, and head movements in particular. Yosuke Matsusaka is a Research Scientist at
the Media Interaction Group / National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan (AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/), PhD Waseda University, Japan.
He works on communicative (verbal and
non-verbal) robots, visual gesture-recognition, cross-cultural aspects of
three-party collaborative behavior among American and Japanese groups, facial
expressions as feedback.
Mikael Lind is an Associate professor in informatics, University College of Boras and Linkoping University, Sweden. He works on business process management, e-services, method engineering, co-design of business and IT, and research methods for information systems development. He is also the founder of InnovationLab.
Rory Crooks is an active duty Major in the US Army currently researching a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences thesis on Army cultural training from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has recently traveled to Afghanistan with the Center for Army Lessons Learned and served a tour in Balad, Iraq. He was an instructor at the Field Artillery Captains Career Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was a unit trainer at the Combat Maneuver Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany. He has commanded US and Korean soldiers in South Korea. Jonathan Gratch is a Research
Scientist at ICT and USC Computer Science. He works on virtual computational
models of emotion, virtual humans, and rapport creation with virtual humans
and avatars by use of feedback signals and mirroring partner behavior. Justine Cassell is a Professor at Northwestern University in the
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Communication
Studies, and Director of the Center for Technology and Social Behavior. She
has worked on human-human conversation and storytelling, machines with conversational,
social and narrative intelligence, and the impact and benefits of
technologies on learning and communication. |