{"id":695,"date":"2024-03-15T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/?page_id=695"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:46:16","slug":"connect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/connect\/","title":{"rendered":"CONNECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 style=\"font-size:3em;\">CONNECT<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through Technology<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">@ 24<sup>th<\/sup> ACM International conference on Intelligent virtual agents (IVA) 2024, Sept 19<sup>th<\/sup> <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure.png 2000w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Connect_Figure-1980x1980.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: Shenja Tatschke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The human need to belong is a fundamental motivation to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships and to frequently interact in a positive way within these relationships. To fulfill this need, different kinds of technologies come into use. On the one hand, there are technologies with which people directly interact with in a social way. On the other hand, there are technologies that offer means to interact with another person. While the technologies and their potential applications are rapidly increasing, research is often fragmented and lagging behind. Particularly due to the intersection of human and technology, interdisciplinary research is needed to develop methods and standards with which new &#8220;connectivity technologies&#8221; can be designed and their impact and acceptance be measured. Against this background, the aim of this workshop is to provide a platform for researchers from different fields to connect and exchange ideas as well as possibilities for future research on technologies that offer or mediate social connections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Call for Papers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizers are calling for papers that include but are not limited to the following topics: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interactive technologies and systems such as Socially Interactive Agents (embodied or not like robots or virtual agents), voice assistants, and chatbots <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technologies and applications that connect individuals that are apart <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empirical studies on Computer-Mediated Communication <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empirical studies on Human-Computer Interaction <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New concepts for connecting individuals with or through technology <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethical considerations regarding the role of technologies and connectivity <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Submission<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Workshop paper submission deadline:<strong><s> July 19, 2024<\/s><\/strong> <strong>July 28, 2024<\/strong><br> Notifications: <strong>August 16, 2024 <\/strong><br> Deadline for Camera ready version: <strong>September 06, 2024<\/strong> <br> Workshop: <strong>September 19, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submission format<\/strong>: max 6 pages (excluded references).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please submit your contribution per e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:aike.horstmann@uni-due.de\">aike.horstmann@uni-due.de<\/a> as PDF, using the predefined 2-column&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-XXX\/CEURART.zip\">CEUR template<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(an&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overleaf.com\/read\/gwhxnqcghhdt\">Overleaf<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;page for LaTeX users is also available).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The submitted contribution must be written in&nbsp;<strong>English<\/strong>&nbsp;and do not need to be anonymized (single-blind review process). A panel of experts from relevant fileds will be asked to review the contributions, selecting the most relevant, novel, original and high-quality ones to be included in the workshop program. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to give an&nbsp;<strong>oral presentation<\/strong>&nbsp;of their work. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop\u2019s proceedings on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference or workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workshop Program<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>9:00-9:15<\/td><td>Welcome and Onboarding<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9:15-10:15<\/td><td><strong>Paper Presentations: 10 min per paper<\/strong> (7 min talk + 3 min Q&amp;A)<br><br>Chances and challenges of connectivity technologies for vulnerable groups: results of a focus group study \u2013 <em>Siewert et al.<\/em><br><br>Artificial Social Influence: Rapport-Building, LLM-Based Embodied Conversational Agents for Health Coaching \u2013 <em>Lim et al.<\/em><br><br>Design and Real-World Data Adaptation of Fuzzy Logic for Naturalistic Feedback from a Social Robot in a SAR-VR System for Apathy Intervention in Older Adults \u2013 <em>Migovich &amp; Sarka<\/em>r<br><br>Empathic AI for Autism: Potential and Pitfalls of Empathic Social Chatbots in Addressing Loneliness \u2013 <em>Hollis<\/em> &amp; <em>McGown<\/em><br><br>Networks of lifelines &#8211; Designing digital connectivity for depressed users \u2013 <em>Kirschall &amp; Guhlemann<\/em><br><br>Comparing Automatic metrics with Human Perceptions: the Ethical Challenges of Evaluating the Human-likeness of Chatbots \u2013 <em>Chen et al.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:15-10:45<\/td><td>Brief Introductions &amp; Group Composition<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:45-11:00<\/td><td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11:00-12:10<\/td><td>Connecting: Exchange and Networking in Small Groups<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12:10-12:30<\/td><td>Presentation of Group Results<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>from 12:30<\/td><td>Lunch and Further Networking<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Committee Members<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Uwe Altmann<\/strong>, Medical School Berlin, Berlin <br><strong>Lara Chehayeb<\/strong>, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany <br><strong>Hannah Fischer<\/strong>, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany<br><strong>Elisabeth Ganal<\/strong>, W\u00fcrzburg University, W\u00fcrzburg, Germany<br><strong>Marc Hassenzahl<\/strong>, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany<br><strong>Mirella Hladk\u00fd<\/strong>, Saarland University, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany<br><strong>Nicole Kr\u00e4mer<\/strong>, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany<br><strong>Gale Lucas<\/strong>, University of Southern California\/Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, USA<br><strong>Fabrizio Nunnari<\/strong>, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany<br><strong>Catherine Pelachaud<\/strong>, ISIR (CNRS), Paris, France<br><strong>Astrid Rosenthal-von der P\u00fctten<\/strong>, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany<br><strong>Kinga Schumacher<\/strong>, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany<br><strong>Jessica Szczuka<\/strong>, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany<br><strong>Ersilia Vallefuoco<\/strong>, University of Trento, Trento, Italy<br><strong>Jana Volkert<\/strong>, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany<br><strong>Christiane Wenhart<\/strong>, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany<br><strong>Janet Wessler<\/strong>, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany<br><strong>Massimo Zancanaro<\/strong>, University of Trento, Trento, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This workshop is open to everyone! We encourage not only the presenters to participate in the workshop, but also all others that are interested in this topic. We highly appreciate every participant&#8217;s point of view.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Organizers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aike Horstmann<\/strong>&nbsp;is a postdoc at the Social Psychology: Media and Communication group at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She studied Applied Cognitive and Media Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, followed by her doctoral studies in the field of human-robot\/virtual agent-interaction with a focus on humans\u2019 perceptions of artificial entities. She received her PhD in early 2021 and started as a senior research associate and interdisciplinary project coordinator in the commercial sector. Since 2022, she continues to conduct research in the field of human-machine interaction, particularly on relationships and communication with as well as understanding of intelligent systems and technology-mediated connectedness, particularly on technology-mediated connectedness within the BMBF-funded project <a href=\"https:\/\/n\u00e4he\u00fcberdistanz.de\/\" title=\"\">VEREINT<\/a>. <br><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:aike.horstmann@uni-due.de\">aike.horstmann@uni-due.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tanja Schneeberger<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Senior Researcher in the Affective Computing group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in psychology in 2023. Her research focuses on affective reactions in human-computer interaction and how relationships are built between users and machines, especially focusing on Socially Interactive Agents. She has been involved in the organization of several workshops: OpenDS User Convention @AutomotiveUI 2015, Func-E @ACII 2021, SUM @Mensch und Computer 2023. <br><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:tanja.schneeberger@dfki.de\">tanja.schneeberger@dfki.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patrick Gebhard<\/strong>&nbsp;is the head of the Affective Computing Group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany. His research focuses on human emotional intelligence and its employment for human-computer interaction. He was involved in the organization of several international conferences and workshops, among others submission chair of the IVA 2019 conference, workshop co-chair of the Func-E workshop (ACII 2021), Workshop on Conversational Interruptions in Human-Agent Interactions (WCIHAI 2017), IUI 2010 workshop and conference co-chair, IUI 2009 workshop and demo co-chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:800px\">\n<p><br><br><br>This workshop is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the VEREINT project (Funding Code 16SV9109) and the UBIDENZ project (Funding Code 13GW0568D).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BMBF-Logo.svg_-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BMBF-Logo.svg_-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BMBF-Logo.svg_-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BMBF-Logo.svg_-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/iva.acm.org\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/BMBF-Logo.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONNECT A Workshop on Connecting Interdisciplinary Research on Connections With and Through Technology @ 24th ACM International conference on Intelligent virtual agents (IVA) 2024, Sept 19th The human need to belong is a fundamental motivation to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships and to frequently interact in a positive way within these relationships. 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