Workshop Support to Encourage Student Investigation of Gesture and Dialog

人类与机器之间的联系对于我们的文化和日常生活活动来说从未如此重要或重要。虽然在年轻一代中更为普遍，但所有年龄段的人都变得越来越依赖和参与设备，人/机关系处于极其快速的变化状态，对国民经济的重要性日益增加。智能手机、机器人吸尘器、网络厨房电器和虚拟个人助理都在我们身边，争夺我们的注意力和可自由支配的支出。事实上，我们与机器的对话比以往任何时候都多，避免了以前的单向命令/响应模式。手势界面已经变得如此普遍，以至于许多幼儿已经开始期待来自无生命物体的双向交互。这种进步在很大程度上是由技术实力和对可能性的竞争推动的，而不是以人为中心的仔细分析和设计。这在很大程度上是由于提出了复杂的跨学科问题，以及难以汇集适当的专门知识来解决这些问题。手势理解和生产的自适应镜头学习研讨会是一个关于手势，机器学习和体现智能的交叉的科学研讨会，旨在通过技术交流和互动来增加对手势和人机交互对话的跨学科研究的兴趣和活动，这可以导致科学进步，带来高经济回报和对福祉的深刻影响。推进这些领域及其交叉点的理论基础可以产生巨大的社会影响，并将刺激该领域的仔细，多维度的研究，促进思想的多样性，并最终为人类用户带来更大的满意度。研讨会的目标包括几件事。首先，增加对手势识别、语言和非语言对话以及体现智能等领域的交叉的兴趣是关键。这将导致更丰富的知识体系，反过来，这将导致更响应，更自然，更有效的人机界面。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是很重要的。熟悉的设备是吸引新的潜在科学家和哲学家参与新发现的重要工具。最后，吸引广泛的受众，交叉与这些新的互动模式相关的不同研究领域，以实现开箱即用的思维。该研讨会由来自计算机科学，工程，技术，心理学和设计的研究人员组成，并在华盛顿举行，与IEEE自动人脸和手势识别会议有关，2017年5月30日至6月3日。由该补助金支持的旅行赠款正在提供，特别针对具有新颖想法的初级格拉德生，加入既定的研究人员，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人参加这些旅行奖的温和竞争，以鼓励优秀的提交。这将实现目标，进一步的教育成就，并推进思想的多样性。

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.