Download Remembering and Sharing Experiences on the Pervasive 2004

JSAI 2005 Workshop on
Conversational Informatics
Summary and Issues
Topics
• Capturing and Measurement of Conversations
– Capturing meetings
– Indexing conversations by non-verbal information
• Representation / Enhancement of Conversations
– Conversational agents / robots / human proxy
– Augmenting conversations with imagery
• Understanding “Conversation”
– Conversation corpus as research infrastructure
– Conversational data mining from the network
Issues (1/3)
• Capturing and Measurement of Conversations
– Capturing meetings
• Structured meetings? Daily conversations like chance
meetings?
• Portable system. Wearable / ubiquitous?
• Automatic generation of meeting minutes. Other killer
application??
– Indexing conversations by non-verbal information
• Patterns of gaze, motion, turn-taking, bio-signal, etc.
• Processing content vs. context, verbal vs. non-verbal
– Much more context information
• Contextual (peripheral) information: pointing, touching
physical references; location; social status
Issues (2/3)
• Representation / Enhancement of Conversations
– Conversational agents / robots / human proxy
• As partner / alter ego?
• Realistic expression? Believability, involvement?
• Beyond the screen? Sharing the physical space?
– Augmenting conversations with imagery
• Everywhere, anytime, everyone, everything
• Already well-prepared? Spontaneous, instant illustration?
• Realistic images by photos, videos? Conceptual images by
drawing, sketch?
Issues (3/3)
• Understanding “Conversation”
– Conversation corpus as research infrastructure
• Natural daily conversations? Controlled conversations?
• Automated tagging? Manually tagging?
– Conversational data mining from the network
• Natural language processing. What beyond?
• Understanding social relationships, e.g., networking,
qualification of organizations