SPECIAL TRACK ON
"AI for Expressive Media"
[ Description | Program Committee | Topics | Submission Information | ST Program]

Description

AI techniques are now widespread in novel communication forms, especially in those that aim at shaping audience/user's emotions through expressive contents, e.g. behavior models of acting virtual characters, engines for game programming, planning formalisms in interactive storytelling, learning techniques for music composition and performance. There are many forums that address such topics from specialized perspectives, since the several communication forms have well established traditions and practices; it also happens that applicative papers of this kind appear in general AI events. However, the latter requires an abstraction process that is not immediate, given the modeling difficulties and the huge implementative work that is involved in such applications. Moreover, it is sometimes difficult for organizers to invent coherent sessions where to host such presentations.
The goal of this special track is threefold: to provide a definition of the expressive media in extensional terms (through reworked examples of applications), to improve the general awareness of the AI techniques that are mostly employed (together with revealing new interesting problems to be modeled), to stimulate the sharing of AI approaches among researchers in different communication forms, usually sparsed in different events or sessions. So, particular attention to cross-fertilization is solicited; each paper will also be reviewed by one non-expert of some particular communication form in order to improve the circulation of ideas.

Special Track Program

Date: 10 September, 2007, h: 14:20-17:30
Location: Sala degli Svizzeri
The Final Program is now available here

Chair

  • Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita' di Torino, Chair

    • Program Committee

    • Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK
    • David Cope, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    • Craig Lindley, Gotland University and Blekinge Technical College, Sweden
    • Vincenzo Lombardo, Universita' di Torino, Italy (Chair)
    • Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA - AI Research Institute CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain
    • Frank Nack, Universit‚ Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France
    • Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    • Ana Paiva, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
      • Oliviero Stock, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy

    Topics

    The topics listed for this special track summarize and generalize over several initiatives that have been arising on the relationship between AI and expressive media. However, it is by no means exhaustive.
    • Affective Computing
    • AI and Media Studies
    • AI and Creativity
    • AI for Edutainment and Cultural Heritage
    • AI in Communication Design
    • AI in Entertaiment
    • AI in Music and Art
    • AI in Interaction Paradigms
    • AI in Game Design and Programming
    • Autonomous Animated Characters
    • Computational Humor
    • Emotional Interfaces
    • Interactive Storytelling
    • Intelligent Virtual Environments

    Submission

    For on-line submission go to submission page

    Important Dates

    For the important dates clik here

    Instructions for Authors

    The Special Track will consist of paper and poster presentations. The submissions will be managed by the Web submission portal that will be made available soon on this page. Papers must be submitted no later than 15th of April 2007.
    All papers should consist of max. 12 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations), in English. PDF files should be submitted formatted according to the Springer Verlag Proceedings style. Latex style files and word document templates can be found at: LNCS Series: Author Instruction
    All accepted papers and posters will be published in the AI*IA 2007 Congress proceedings on the Springer-Verlag LNAI series (previous volumes, AI*IA 2005, AI*IA 2003).