Areas of research that touch on Situated Dialog:

• Auditory scene analysis and interpretation
• Acquisition and tracking of dialog channels
• Explicit and implicit grounding
• Out-of-Vocabulary inputs and their resolution
• Advanced conversational capabilities: Initiation and termination, multi-party
• Multi-modal interaction (gesture and gaze)
• Language-based learning and instruction
• Dialog interaction for robotic systems or kiosks
• Interfaces to automotive systems
• Spoken language for mobile applications

Research and development in the following areas are relevant to this meeting; we also invite the submission of original papers in any related area:

• Speech recognition and understanding, 
• Dialog management, Adaptive dialog modeling, 
• Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data, 
• Emotional and interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during dialog, User modeling, 
• Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description, 
• Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions, 
• Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output, 
• Fusion, fission and information management, Learning and adaptability, 
• Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction, 
• Spoken Dialog databases and corpora, including methodologies and ethics, 
• Objective and subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies, strategies and paradigms, 
• Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc. We put this year workshop under the theme