Award Categories
HAI 2016 is pleased to announce that the conference has presented the following three awards to recognise excellent research work presented in this edition of HAI:
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Best Paper Award
Description: To recognize the most outstanding paper appearing in the proceedings of HAI’16.
Prize: S$100 and Certificate
Basis for Judging: Potential for long-term impact on the field, innovation and originality and clarity of the written paper
Winner: Viktor Richter, Birte Carlmeyer, Florian Lier, Sebastian Meyer zu Borgsen, David Schlangen, Franz Kummert, Sven Wachsmuth and Britta Wrede: “Are You Talking to Me? Improving the Robustness of Dialogue Systems in a Multi Party HRI Scenario by Incorporating Gaze Direction and Lip Movement of Attendees”
Finalists:
- Perception of Animacy by the Linear Motion of a Group of Robots
- Investigating effects of Professional Status and Ethnicity in Human-Agent Interaction
- Children’s Facial Expressions in Truthful and Deceptive Interactions with a Virtual Agent
- Investigating Breathing Expression of a Stuffed-Toy Robot Based on Body-Emotion Model
- Are You Talking to Me? Improving the Robustness of Dialogue Systems in a Multi Party HRI Scenario by Incorporating Gaze Direction and Lip Movement of Attendees
- Embodiment of Video-mediated Communication Enhances Social Telepresence
- A Method to Alternate the Estimation of Global Purposes and Local Objectives to Induce and Maintain the Intentional Stance
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Best Student Paper Award
Description: To recognize the most outstanding paper appearing in the proceedings of HAI’16, for which the first author is a student.
Prize: S$100 and Certificate
Basis for Judging: Potential for long-term impact on the field, innovation and originality and clarity of the written paper
Winner: Naoto Yoshida and Tomoko Yonezawa: “Investigating Breathing Expression of a Stuffed-Toy Robot Based on Body-Emotion Model”
Candidates:
- Perception of Animacy by the Linear Motion of a Group of Robots
- Communication Cues in Human-Robot Touch Interaction
- Alignment Approach Comparison between Implicit and Explicit Suggestions in Object Reference Conversations
- Children’s Facial Expressions in Truthful and Deceptive Interactions with a Virtual Agent
- Investigating Breathing Expression of a Stuffed-Toy Robot Based on Body-Emotion Model
- Who am I touching?: User study of remote handshaking with a telepresence face
- Are You Talking to Me? Improving the Robustness of Dialogue Systems in a Multi Party HRI Scenario by Incorporating Gaze Direction and Lip Movement of Attendees
- Embodiment of Video-mediated Communication Enhances Social Telepresence
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Best Poster Award
Description: To recognize the most outstanding paper appearing in the proceedings of HAI’16, for which the first author is a student.
Prize: S$100 and Certificate
Basis for Judging: Presentation quality during the interactive sessions.
Selection Process: The conference audience voted for the best poster presentations to be awarded with the Best Poster award. Each participant has voted for a single candidate poster using an online form available at the registration desk. The winner was chosen through a majority vote.
Winner: Birte Carlmeyer: “”Look at Me!” — Self-Interruptions as Attention Booster?”
Award Selection Process for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper
- Award selection committee is formed by the general chairs and program chairs of HAI’15 and HAI’16 as well as HAI’16 award chairs
- Award Selection Committee voted for the papers after removing any conflict of interests to select the best papers
- Award chairs consolidated the votes:
Candidates for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper are selected regarding initial review scores and anonymized for the voting process
- The paper receiving the highest overall vote by the Award Selection Committee is awarded with the Best Paper Award (even if the first author is a student)
- The paper, which received the second highest ranking and has a student as the first author, is awarded the Best Student Paper