General Co-Chairs

Yasuhiro Katagiri, Future University - Hakodate, Japan
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oliver Lemon, Heriot Watt University, UK

Program Committee

Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Gregory Aist, Arizona State University, USA
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Ellen Bard, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA
Johan Bos, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Johan Boye, Linkoping University, Sweden
Donna Byron, Northeastern University, USA
Rolf Carlson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Robin Cooper, Göteborg University, Sweden
Mark Core, University of Southern California, USA
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh, UK
Markus Egg, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Mary Ellen Foster, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Matthew Frampton, Stanford University, USA
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College London, UK
Genevieve Gorrell, Sheffield University, UK
Alexander Gruenstein, Google, USA
Helen Hastie, Heriot Watt University, UK
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Beth Ann Hockey, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Simon Keizer, University of Cambridge, UK
John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Alexander Koller, University of Saarbrucken, Germany
Alistair Knott, Otago University, New Zealand
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, DFKI, Germany
Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Fabrice Lefevre, University of Cambridge, UK
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ramón López-Cózar, University of Granada, Spain
François Mairesse, University of Cambridge, UK
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
Sebastian Möller, Deutsche Telekom Labs and Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University, Japan
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
Paul Piwek, Open University, UK
Massimo Poesio, Univ. of Essex/Univ. of Trento UK/Italy
Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Matt Purver, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Verena Rieser, University of Edinburgh, UK
Laurent Romary, INRIA, France
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam, Germany
Candy Sidner, BAE Systems AIT, USA
Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden
Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University, USA
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University, UK
Matthew Stuttle, Toshiba Research, UK
Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service, USA
David Traum, USC/ICT, USA
Jason Williams, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

Local Chair

Kazunori Komatani, Nagoya University, Japan

Local Committee

Kohji Dohsaka, NTT Corporation, Japan
Shinya Fujie, Waseda University, Japan
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT Corporation, Japan
Masato Ishizaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ikuyo Morimoto, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

SIGDIAL President

Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGDIAL Vice President

Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland