Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones

The theme of 2012 Workshop, "Towards a natural interaction with robots, knowbots and smartphones," covered such areas as dialog for robot interaction (including ethics), dialog for open-domaine knowledge access, dialog for interacting with smartphones, mediated dialog (including dialog involving speech translation), and dialog quality evaluation. Presentations and discussion of common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools, and techniques were encouraged.