Details

Date: 14th-16th December 2005
Location: Macquarie University, Sydney
Contact: Prof Robert Dale, rdale@ics.mq.edu.au
Conference URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest05/hcsnetconference

The HCSNet Conference will feature plenary presentations from

• Justine Cassell, credited with developing the Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) concept [abstract];
• Stelarc, the Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces [abstract]; and
• Professor Elim Papadakis, Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council [abstract].

The conference will also contain:

• an innovative speed paper session, where researchers are invited to introduce their research interests to the broader HCSNet community and to obtain interdisciplinary feedback;
• WISP: the Workshop on Interactive Systems in the Performing Arts;
• SPAPAC: the Workshop on Speech Processing and Auditory Perception under Adverse Conditions; and
• the co-located Language and Speech conference, including plenary talks from Catherine Best [abstract] and Brian Byrne [abstract].