Welcome message from PerDial 2019 Chairs

Spoken Dialogue Systems have been a hot topic of discussion in a research community for the last two decades. They are an inalienable part of Human-Computer Interaction, and allow the integration of Artificial Intelligence systems in our everyday lives smoothly and naturally, through an easy, human-like communication. Pervasive Computing technologies can contact the user at a close level as well as be insensibly integrated into the environment, providing spatially distributed information. Being a part of the smart environment, each smart device serves as a mini personal assistant and requires an ability to interact with the user to be able to be more adaptive, user-friendly and effective. While both topics have recently been an interest of researchers, questions of integration between pervasive computing and spoken dialogue systems have been discussed within each community. The Interdisciplinary potential of both fields has not yet been investigated in detail. More active cooperation between both communities may open the way for more powerful and user-friendly Pervasive Computing Systems. The proposed workshop will help to explore possible challenges and suggestions to progress them. We aim to create the first and unique venue for discussion and collaboration between experts from these disciplines.

The workshop received 6 submissions and accepted 5 regular papers out of them that cover a wide area of the above challenges.

We would like to thank all the authors who contributed papers and the technical program committee members for completing reviews under a very tight schedule. Finally, we thank the PerCom 2019 workshop chairs, Takahiro Hara, Delphine Reinhardt and Nirmalya Roy for all the support during the organization of the workshops.

PerDial Co-Chairs, Dmitrii Fedotov and Yuki Matsuda

Technical Program Committee