Description
State-of-the-art AI will significantly change the way humans and machines interact and gives rise to a new interaction paradigm based on voice and other modalities (e.g., voice user interfaces, natural user interfaces). This interaction paradigm essentially makes machines more social, as they use modalities for social interaction that are most familiar to us.
However, next-generation interactive AI systems should become more proactive and collaborate in a personalised way that is transparent to their human users. To this end, we need to develop new theories and models of the social loop between users and machines, and identify similarities and differences between human-human and human-machine loops. The social loop provides inspiration for the modelling and realization of social machines based on advanced AI techniques. It also can provide a starting point for discussing the quality of social interaction that we expect of such machines.
Another key question is to what extent human-human interaction can be used as a model of human-machine interaction. In the workshop we aim to identify if, and how, a social loop for human-machine interaction differs from the human-human version and which aspects are key to guarantee the high quality of the social interactions that social machines engage in. We aim to address these questions by discussing the current state-of-the-art in Social AI and the steps that are needed to build on current AI techniques to realize social machines that meet user expectations in the wild.
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival, welcome and registration
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome by Lorentz Centre
10:15 – 11:00 Introduction
2-min introductory round to get to know each other
11:00 – 12:30 10-min research presentations + discussion
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch@Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk: Social Cognition and Social Interaction
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Interactive session to identify topics
16:00 ‑ 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Small group breakout session to identify research questions
17:30 Wine and cheese party
09:00 – 10:00 Small group breakout session
10:00 – 10:30 Invited talk 2: predict social behaviour
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Small group breakout session
12:00 – 12:30 Brainstorming activity: “Experimental/Numerical assessment of the control”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch@Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:00 Presentation results breakout sessions
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Group discussion
16:30 – 17:30 Small group breakout session: new research questions
09:00 – 10:00 Invited talk 3: dialogue between humans and AI
Invited talk 4: closing the loop social AI and humans
10:00 – 10:30 Small group breakout session
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Small group breakout session
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch@Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:00 Presentation results breakout sessions
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Group discussion
16:30 – 17:30 Small group breakout session: (continuation or new research questions)
17:30 Workshop dinner
09:00 – 10:00 Small group breakout session
10:00 – 10:30 Presentation results breakout sessions
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Group discussion
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch@Snellius restaurant
14:00 – 15:30 Presentation preliminary results (initial draft research roadmap)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 ‑ 16.30 Breakout session to finalize roadmap
16:30 ‑ 17.30 Plenary discussion of roadmap
17:30 End of the workshop