{"id":6448,"date":"2021-09-01T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/?post_type=isir_news&#038;p=6448"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T09:42:41","slug":"isir-is-strongly-involved-in-the-organisation-of-the-vihar-2021-workshop","status":"publish","type":"isir_news","link":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/news\/isir-is-strongly-involved-in-the-organisation-of-the-vihar-2021-workshop\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming event: VIHAR 2021, workshop on vocal interactivity in and bewteen Humans, Animals and Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>VIHAR-2021 : 3rd International Workshop on&nbsp;Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and&nbsp;Robots<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">13 &#8211; 15 October 2021<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">free event, virtual on Zoom \/ Slack<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>VIHAR-2021<\/strong>&nbsp;is a event international that&nbsp;aims to bring together researchers studying vocalisation and speech-based interaction in-and-between humans, animals and robots from a variety of different fields.&nbsp;<strong>VIHAR-2021<\/strong>&nbsp;will provide an opportunity to share and discuss theoretical insights, best practices, tools and methodologies, and to identify common principles underpinning vocal&nbsp;behaviour in a multi-disciplinary environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vihar_schema.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vihar_schema.png 362w, https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vihar_schema-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vihar_schema-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Almost all animals exploit vocal signals for a range of ecologically-motivated purposes: from detecting predators\/prey and marking territory, to expressing emotions, establishing&nbsp;social relations and sharing information. Whether it\u2019s a bird raising an alarm, a whale calling to potential partners, a dog responding to human commands, a parent reading a story&nbsp;with a child, or a businessperson accessing stock prices using Siri on an iPhone, vocalisation provides a valuable communications channel through which behaviour may be&nbsp;coordinated and controlled, and information may be distributed and acquired. Indeed, the ubiquity of vocal interaction has led to research across a diverse array of fields, from&nbsp;assessing animal welfare, to understanding the precursors of human language, to developing voice-based human-machine interaction. Clearly, there is potential for cross-fertilisation between disciplines; for example, using robots to investigate contemporary theories of language grounding, using machine learning to analyse different habitats or&nbsp;adding vocal expressivity to the next generation of autonomous social agents. However, many opportunities remain unexplored, not least due to the lack of a suitable forum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-black-background-color has-black-color\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>General Chair<\/strong> : <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/personnel\/chetouani\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/personnel\/chetouani\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mohamed CHETOUANI<\/a>, ISIR &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sorbonne-universite.fr\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sorbonne-universite.fr\" target=\"_blank\">Sorbonne University<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:mohamed.chetouani@sorbonne-universite.fr\" target=\"_blank\">mohamed.chetouani@sorbonne-universite.fr<\/a><br>Link to the workshop website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vihar-2021.vihar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/vihar-2021.vihar.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6447,"template":"","isir_news_categories":[254],"class_list":["post-6448","isir_news","type-isir_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","isir_news_categories-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/isir_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"isir_news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isir.upmc.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/isir_news_categories?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}