Programme

The tentative programme for the two-day workshop is as follows:

11:00	Welcome and opening remarks
11:20	Keynote - Irene Pepperberg Interspecies communication: a means of studying the cognitive and communicative abilities of Grey parrots
12:40	Phonetic Characteristics of Domestic Cat Vocalisations Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer and Robert Eklund
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Appropriate Voices for Artefacts: Some Key Insights Roger Moore
14:30	Multimodal breathiness in interaction: from breathy voice quality to global breathy “body behavior quality” Liliya Tsvetanova, Veronique Auberge and Yuko Sasa
15:00	Bases of Empathic Animism Illusion: audio-visual perception of an object devoted to becoming perceived as a subject for HRI Romain Magnani, Clarisse Bayol, Yuko Sasa and Veronique Auberge
15:30	Animal-Robot Interaction: The Role of Human Likeness on the Success of Dog-Robot Interactions Maretta Morovitz, Megan Mueller and Matthias Scheutz
16:00	Break
16:20	Cognitive mechanisms underlying speech sound discrimination: a comparative study on humans and zebra finches Merel Burgering, Carel ten Cate and Jean Vroomen
16:40	Recording Vocal Interactivity among Turtles using AUVs Nick Campbell and Angela Dassow
17:00	Keynote - Gabriel Skantze Towards Real-time Coordination in Human-robot Interaction
18:00	End
19:30	Social Event

09:30	Keynote - Arik Kershenbaum Animals, humans, computers, and aliens. Is there anything in common between all their languages?
10:30	Break
10:50	A proposal to use distributional models to analyse dolphin vocalization Mats Amundin, Robert Eklund, Henrik Hållsten, Jussi Karlgren and Lars Molinder
11:10	Development of vocal cord mechanism for a robot capable of infant-like speech and reproducing the pitch of a babbling and a shout Tomoki Kojima, Nobutsuna Endo and Minoru Asada
11:30	Perceptual and acoustic correlates of spontaneous vs. social laughter Takaaki Shochi, Marine Guerry, Jean-Luc Rouas, Marie Chaumont, Toyoaki Nishida and Yoshimasa Ohmoto
12:00	Robot, Alien and Cartoon Voices: Implications for Speech-Enabled Systems Sarah Wilson and Roger Moore
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Keynote - Véronique Aubergé The socio-affective glue: how to manage with the empathic illusion of human for robot?
15:00	Panel discussion
15:30	Closing remarks & Finish