Workshop Support to Encourage Student Investigation of Gesture and Dialog

对于我们的文化和我们的日常生活活动来说，人类和他们的机器之间的联系从未像现在这样重要或如此根本。虽然在年轻一代中更为普遍，但各个年龄段的人类正在变得越来越依赖和参与设备，人/机关系正处于极其迅速的变化状态，对国民经济的重要性日益上升。智能手机、机器人吸尘器、支持网络的厨房电器和虚拟个人助理无处不在，它们争夺着我们的注意力和可自由支配的支出。事实上，我们比以往任何时候都更多地参与到与我们的机器的对话中，避免了以前的单向命令/响应模式。手势界面已经变得如此常见，以至于许多蹒跚学步的孩子开始期待无生命物体的双向互动。这种进步在很大程度上是由技术实力和对可能的东西的竞赛推动的，而不是仔细的以人为中心的分析和设计。这在很大程度上是因为提出了复杂的跨学科问题，而且难以汇集适当的专门知识来解决这些问题。手势理解和制作的自适应镜头学习讲习班是一个关于手势、机器学习和体现智能交叉的科学讲习班，旨在通过技术交流和互动，增加对手势和人机交互对话的跨学科研究的兴趣和活动，这可以导致高经济回报和对福祉产生深刻影响的科学进步。推进这些领域的理论基础及其交叉点可以产生巨大的社会影响，并将促进对该领域的仔细、多层面的研究，促进思想的多样性，并最终提高人类用户的满意度。首先，对手势识别、语言和非语言对话以及体现智能等领域的交叉领域日益增长的兴趣是关键。这将带来更丰富的知识体系，进而产生更灵敏、自然和有效的人/机界面。其次，增加年轻一代设备用户对这些领域如何重叠的研究和教学的参与度是重要的。熟悉的设备是吸引新的潜在科学家和哲学家对新发现感到兴奋的重要工具。最后，吸引与这些新的互动模式相关的不同研究领域交叉的广泛受众，以实现跳出框框的思维。该研讨会由来自计算机科学、工程、技术、心理学和设计的不同研究人员组织，在华盛顿特区举行，与2017年5月30日至6月3日举行的IEEE自动人脸和手势识别会议有关。由这笔赠款支持的旅行补助金正在提供，特别是针对具有新奇想法的低年级研究生，让他们加入知名研究人员的行列，在非正式的环境中展示他们的想法。不同的组织者小组将招募申请者参加这些旅游奖项的温和竞争，以鼓励优秀的提交。这将实现目标，进一步获得教育成就，并促进思想的多样性。

The connection between humans and their machines has never been more significant or more fundamental to our culture and our activities of daily living. While more prevalent in younger generations, humans of all ages are becoming increasingly dependent and engaged by devices and the human/machine relationship is in a state of extremely rapid change and growing importance to the national economy. Smartphones, robotic vacuum cleaners, web-enabled kitchen appliances, and virtual personal assistants are all around us and competing for our attention and our discretionary spending. In fact, we are engaging much more in a dialog with our machines, than ever before, eschewing the prior modalities of one-way command/response. Gestural interfaces have become so commonplace that many toddlers have begun to expect bi-directional interaction from inanimate objects. Much of this advancement has been driven by technological prowess and the race toward what is possible, rather than careful human-centric analysis and design. This is largely due to the complex interdisciplinary issues that are raised and the difficulties in bringing together the right collection of expertise to address them. The Workshop on Adaptive-Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, a scientific workshop on the intersection of gesture, machine learning and embodied intelligence, seeks to increase interest and activities in the interdisciplinary study of gesture and dialog for human/machine interaction through technical exchange and interaction which can lead to scientific advancements with high economic payoff and deep impact on well-being. Advancing the theoretical bases of these fields and their intersection can have enormous societal impact and will stimulate careful, multi-dimensional study of the field, promoting a diversity of thought and, ultimately, greater satisfaction for human users.The goals of the Workshop include several things. First, increasing interest in the intersection of the fields of gesture recognition, verbal and non-verbal dialog, and embodied intelligence is key. This will result in a richer body of knowledge which, in turn, will result in more responsive, natural, and effective human/machine interfaces. Second, increasing the engagement of this younger generation of device users in the research and teaching of how these fields overlap is important. Familiar devices are important tools to engage new potential scientists and philosophers in the excitement of new discoveries. Finally, attracting a broad audience that cross-cuts the diverse fields of study of relevance to these new interaction modalities to enable outside-the-box thinking. The Workshop is organized by a diverse group of researchers from computer science, engineering, technology, psychology, and design and is held in Washington, DC, in connection to the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference, May 30-June 3, 2017. Travel grants supported by this grant are being offered, specifically targeting junior grad students with novel ideas, to join the established researchers to present their ideas in an informal setting. The diverse panel of organizers will recruit applicants to a gentle competition for these travel awards to encourage excellent submissions. This will achieve the goals, further educational attainment, and advance diversity of thought.