Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children https://aichildinteraction.github.io/

February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration Virtual participation is free!

Program: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule

Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or aichildinteraction@gmail.com

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In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond just processing child speech. The first part of the workshop will be concerned with conversational agents for child learning with four short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. After a coffee break, the workshop will then focus on collecting data and practical and ethical considerations when building datasets involving children.

We invite all researchers interested in AI-Child Interaction independent of their background and their previous experience with speech-based interaction to participate in the workshop.

## Accepted Papers A list of accepted papers can be found here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission A link to the PDF version of the papers will be added a week before the workshop and will remain on the website available to everyone even after the workshop has concluded

## Schedule An overview of the schedule is available on our website (all times are PST - UTC-8): https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule In addition to two keynote presentations, the first by Prof. Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands, and the second by Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, and seven short paper presentations, we will host two roundtable discussion sessions. These are interactive sessions in which we can dive deeper into the topics covered by our speakers and we welcome all participants to contribute with questions and statements.

## Registration If you would like to attend our workshop, please register using the IWSDS registration website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration

There are three types of registration: (i) If you are already registered for the IWSDS main conference (in-person or virtual), then your workshop participation is already covered. There is no need for any extra registration. (ii) If you would like to attend the workshop in person without registering for the main conference, please choose "In-Person Workshop Only" non-student (100 USD) or student (50 USD) options towards the end of the registration form. (iii) Virtual registration is completely free of charge! Please use the same link and select the "Virtual Workshop Only - Non-students and students" option.

We will send registered participants information about in-person and virtual participation as well as the Link to the Zoom Webinar the day before the workshop.

## Contact If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an e-mail to aichildinteraction@gmail.com