2nd Workshop on
Child, Computer and Interaction
(ICMI/MLMI'09 post-conference workshop)

Cambridge, MA, USA, November 5, 2009

An event supported by


Proceedings


Welcome to WOCCI 2009


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Welcome to the Second Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction (WOCCI2009) that will be held in Cambridge
(Boston area) on November 5th 2009. The Workshop is a satellite event of the Eleventh International Conference
on Multi-modal Interfaces, this year jointly with the sixth Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
(ICMI-MLMI 2009).

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners from universities and
industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces.
Children's verbal/nonverbal communication, interaction and affective/social behavior are special in that they reflect
a wide variety of developmental differences along various dimensions including neuro, cognitive and social. The
Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science,
robotics, speech processing, linguistics and application areas such as health care and education. Various state-of-the-art
components can be presented here as key components for next generation child-centered computer interaction.
Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges
to the core well-being of our societies.

The first edition of the Workshop, WOCCI2008, attracted a number of interesting papers and was attended by several
researchers from all over the world confirming the interest of the scientific community for the topics covered by the
Workshop. This year we received submissions from Europe, Asia and the USA and accepted 21 papers that are
presented in an oral session followed by two afternoon poster sessions. We are confident that the Workshop will be
an exciting occasion to have a clear vision of the leading edge developments in the field and to exchange ideas and
experiences with other researchers active in the research areas covered by the Workshop.

Finally, we would like to thank you all for your participation and we hope all of you will enjoy this second edition
of the Workshop and, why not, those that will follow.

The Program Chairs,
Kay Berkling
Inline GmbH
Germany 		Diego Giuliani
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Italy 		Shrikanth Narayanan
University of Southern California
USA