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

February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Paper Submission Deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended) Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23

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

More information about registering to our workshop for those not attending IWSDS will be shared in a separate call for participation closer to the workshop day.

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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. We are interested in discussing approaches to collecting and annotating datasets involving child speech, intent classification in child speech, designing dialogue flow with artificial agents that primarily interact with children, as well as repair strategies, active listening behavior, and other aspects of dialogue modeling. Moreover, multiparty conversations involving several children, children, and their adult caregivers or several artificial agents are of particular interest to this workshop.

Acknowledging the early-stage nature of research in this area, the workshop will invite short position papers as contributions. In addition to selected talks that will be invited based on the submitted papers, we will host roundtable discussions allowing attendees to discuss ideas, share challenges they have faced, and highlight ideas for future research.

## Topics of Interest The workshop welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: Natural Language Understanding of Child Speech  Dialogue Modeling of Child-Agent, Child-Robot, Child-Child, and Child-Adult Speech  Conversational Flow and Repair in Dialogue with Children  Multiparty-Interaction Involving Children  Multimodal Processing of Child Interactions  Automatic Speech Recognition of Child Speech  Evaluating Child Interactions with Artificial Agents/Robots Challenges in Designing Interactions for Children  Datasets of Child-Child, Child-Adult, or Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Ethics and Responsible AI for Child-Agent/Robot Interaction Related Topics

## Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: January 13th, 2023 (extended) - Author Notification deadline: February 1st, 2023 - Workshop: February 21st, 2023 (morning session)

## Submission Guidelines We invite short position papers of 3-4 pages (plus additional pages for references and appendices without page limitation), including work in progress containing preliminary results, technical reports, case studies, surveys, and state-of-the-art research in language-based AI agent interactions with children. Recently submitted or published papers are welcome to be submitted to this workshop if they are highly relevant to the topic of the workshop. Please select the appropriate track during the EasyChair submission to mark the submission accordingly.

Papers will be reviewed for their relevance, novelty, and scientific and technical soundness. Submissions do not need to be anonymized for review. All manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiaic23

Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website. However, papers are still considered non-archival and can be submitted to other conferences.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper during the workshop in the form of a short talk, which can either be given in person in Los Angeles, USA, or virtually via Zoom.

Authors should use the official IWSDS template: Latex Style and Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnzjvTlIVEsdPb2IZXbzxU8WRJj3mLiJ Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/read/djcrwzgrdjvj Word Template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WmO9iLvJtO0cH1E0VSC1bPsC0vRDpzbd

## Participation Participation in our workshop will be possible online or in person in Los Angeles. If you are planning on attending IWSDS, then you can register for the conference here: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration Registration to the main conference includes the workshop participation.

If you would like to participate in our workshop only, please wait for further instructions on the registration process, which we will share in a separate call for participation closer to the workshop day.

## 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