Participation in Dagstuhl Seminar: Conversational Agent as Trustworthy Autonomous System (Trust-CA)
20 September 2021, by Ricardo Usbeck
The head of the semantic systems group, Prof. Dr. Ricardo Usbeck, was invited to join the prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar on Conversational Agents as Trustworthy Autonomous System. The Dagstuhl Seminar 21381 took place as a hybrid event from September 19-24 2021.
In this seminar, we will be working on three challenges:
- 1) How to develop trustworthy conversational agents?
- 2) How to build people's trust in agents?
- 3) How to optimize human and agent collaboration? Trustworthy agents are the next step to bringing the future one step closer to our everyday reality.
About the Dagstuhl Seminar: It is repeatedly confirmed that Dagstuhl Seminars are the most productive scientific events that scientists have experienced. The atmosphere is designed for personal interaction, the extensive scientific working equipment, the wonderful surroundings. The best computer science researchers from all over the world meet at Dagstuhl Castle. Lately, also hybrid or online only meetings are possible. Even if it seems odd, we experience the hybrid meeting as thought-provoking and exciting. Dagstuhl Seminars are the main focus of Schloss Dagstuhl in terms of content. There is an event of this kind practically every week.
We want to thank the organizers Asbjorn Folstad (SINTEF – Oslo, NO), Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft – Redmond, US), Effie Lai-Chong Law (University of Leicester, GB) and Björn Schuller (Universität Augsburg, DE).
More information on the seminar can be found here https://www.dagstuhl.de/de/programm/kalender/semhp/?semnr=21381
A content-heavy summary by Prof. Usbeck will be posted later.