The workshop will take place on Friday, December 18, 2020. A Zoom-link was sent directly to all participants.
This is the preliminary workshop programme. All times are in GMT (UTC+0).
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Welcome; Paper session 1 |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Break |
| 12:50 - 14:20 | Paper session 2 |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Invited talk: Kristina Striegnitz |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:20 | Breakout discussion session on shared tasks |
Session 1 papers (7 minutes talk, 3 minutes discussion)
- Mixing Speech and Semantic Free Utterances: A challenge for Natural Language Generation Matthew Aylett
- Speech in action: designing challenges that require incremental processing of self and others’ speech and performative gestures Gérard Bailly and Frédéric Elisei
- Multimodal Joke Presentation for Social Robots based on Natural-Language Generation and Nonverbal Behaviors Hannes Ritschel, Thomas Kiderle, Klaus Weber and Elisabeth André
- Open Challenges on Generating Referring Expressions for Human-Robot Interaction Fethiye Irmak Doğan and Iolanda Leite
- Does Small Talk Enhance Robot-Assisted Learning? Jan de Wit, Maxime Boesten, and Emiel Krahmer
- Human, we have a problem: What to say when things go wrong Mihai Pomarlan, Vanja Sophie Cangalovic, Robert Porzel, John Bateman
- Towards the Effectiveness of Ambiguous Spatial Descriptions in Human Robot Interaction Christopher Wallbridge, Alex Smith, Manuel Giuliani, Chris Melhuish, Tony Belpaeme and Séverin Lemaignan
Session 2 papers (7 minutes talk, 3 minutes discussion)
- Investigating Confidence-Based Category Transition of Spatial Gestures Adam Stogsdill, Thao Phung and Tom Williams
- The ‘Icebreaker’ Challenge for Social Robotics Weronika Sieinska, Nancie Gunson, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon
- NLG for Situated Human-Robot Dialogue: Statement of Interest for the HRI 2020 Workshop on NLG for HRI Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
- Challenges and Opportunities for NLG in Persuasive Robotics Sudhir Shenoy and Joanne Dugan
- Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction Dimitra Gkatzia
- Enabling Robots to Draw and Tell: Towards Visually Grounded Multimodal Description Generation Ting Han and Sina Zarrieß
- Social robots skills learning from demonstration Sascha Griffiths, Thomas Gees and Adamantios Koumpis