Report on Representations for Multimodal Generation Workshop

The Representations for Multimodal Generation Workshop was held on April 23-25, 2005, at Reykjavík University, Reykjavík, Iceland. The overall goal of this workshop is to further the state of research on multimodal generation by enabling (and getting) people in the field to work together on building systems capable of real-time face-to-face dialog with people. People produce multimodal behavior with ease in real time in a broad range of circumstances. In April 2005 a group of practitioners in the area of multimodal communication and computer graphics came together for three days at Reykjavík University to further the integration and development of multimodal generation skills for artificial humans. The group started by specifying the necessary planning stages and knowledge structures for multimodal behavior generation and control.