WELCOME to eNTERFACE 08 4th-29th August 2008 Orsay - France Christophe d’Alessandro LIMSI-CNRS

eNTERFACE’08 The 4th of a series initiated by Pr. Thierry Dutoit, after Mons (2005), Dubrovnik (2006), Istambul (2007) The first post-SIMILAR eNTERFACE workshop. Supported by LIMSI-CNRS, OpenInterface foundation, and you, the participating organizations

eNTERFACE’08 facts Number of participant (including LIMSI staff, outside of the projects) : 78 Average daily number of participants: 55 + LIMSI Staff labs from 15 countries, people from 20 countries 10 projects

Expected Results August 29th: general closing meeting : public presentation, in which the team leaders explain and demonstrate the results of their project. All results, codes and data, are made publicly available with an MIT- like open source license. the workshop proceedings will be issued in the month following the eNTERFACE’08. Each team contributes a 15pp. paper on their project and results. Hopefully eNTERFACE’08 will create a real transfer of know-how among participants, who continue to work together after the workshop has closed. Authors will be encouraged to consider submitting a polished version of their results in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces

Schedule Monday august 4 th, 14h: general opening meeting, LIMSI conference room. –Welcome address by the organizers, –presentation of projects by team leaders, –teams gathering. Tuesday august 5 th, 9h: –teams gathering and installation. Wednesday august 6 th, 14h: first invited conference: Lotfi A. Zadeh Friday august 15 th : holiday, the lab will be closed, 3 days week-end Monday august 18 th, 10h: –Mid-term meeting Intermediate reports on teams achievements. Friday august 29 th, 10h: general closing meeting –Final reports on teams achievements, –conclusion and discussion on eNTERFACE’08 and future plans.

Invited Conferences Distinguished speakers will give invited conferences on hot topics in multimodal interfaces (LIMSI's conference room in building 508). 06/08/ :00 — Toward Human Level Machine Intelligence—Is it Achievable? The Need for a Paradigm Shift (Lotfi A. Zadeh, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) 14/08/ :00 — To be announced (Edward J. Delp, Purdue Univ. USA) 21/08/ :00 — Fusion and fission in multimodal interfaces: using ontology-based semantics for representing semiotic modes (John BATEMAN, Univ. of Bremen, Germany) 27/08/ :00 — The NAO robot and ongoing research at Aldebaran Robotics (Jérôme MONCEAUX and Alexandre MAZEL from Aldebaran Robotics, Paris, France)

eNTERFACE Staff People at LIMSI in charge of organization will make their best to help you or to redirect your requests to knowledgeable people. Laurent Pointal Christophe d'Alessandro Rami Ajaj Albert Rilliard Christian Jacquemin Nicolas Sturmel Sylvain Le Beux

Working places Teams will work in two different buildings the main building (this building, 508): Acoustic room, council room, office 202, a classroom building (507): large room, small room The conference room is reserved for general conference, but is also available for teams meeting, or specialized conferences The cafeteria is always open for informal meetings or relaxing

Working Time The Workshop working time will be from 9:00 to 17:00. For security reasons, Workshop rooms will be locked outside this period. The main LIMSI building is open from 8:30 to 18:30. Access to the lab out of this period is allowed only to permanent members with access cards.

Lunches The university restaurant is closed in august. Therefore, participants must organize their own lunch, as it is also the case for all people at LIMSI in august. It is possible to bring lunch and to take it in LIMSI cafeteria or on the grass around the lab. The cafeteria is always open, with paying serving machine, free fridge and free microwave oven. Coffee, tea etc is served in the morning and at lunch time (buy tickets). There are café, restaurants and groceries near the RER "Le Guichet" station (see the wiki) Pizza, pasta other types of catering can be ordered and delivered at LIMSI (see the wiki) We will try to organize a system for ordering light meals (volunteers ?)

Communication WIKI: one page for each team. A general purpose communication and repository tool. WEBSITE: will contain results, talks, etc. MAILING LIST: to send messages to all the

Schedule of the afternoon 14:00 Opening (this talk) 14:15 Project 1 - Multi – Party Communication with Tour Guide ECA 14:30 Project 2 -Multimodal high level data integration 14:45 Project3 - Sign-language-enabled information kiosk 15:00 Project 4 - Design and Usability Issues for Multimodal Cues in Interface Design/Virtual Environments 15:15 Project 5 - Capture and machine learning of physiological signals for emotion recognition: applications to performing arts and multimedia scenography 15:30 : coffee break 16:00 Project 7 - Multimodal Communication with Robots and Virtual Agents 16:15Project 8 Project - Activity-Related Biometric Authentication 16:30 Project 9 - Tracking-dependent and interactive video projection 16:45 Project 10 - Expressive Control of Violin Sounds Based Causal/Anticausal Decomposition 17:00 Project 11 - Stylistic Human Gait Modeling 17h15 team gathering, end of meeting