The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in Dialog will be held September 7-8, 2012.

Feedback skills are important for people (or machines) wishing to be able to function as supportive, cooperative listeners. The production and comprehension of back-channels and related phenomena, including response tokens, reactive tokens, minimal responses, continuers and acknowledgments, are also of scientific interest, as possibly the most accessible example of the real-time responsiveness that underpins many successful interpersonal interactions. This workshop will provide a venue for an interdisciplinary examination of these phenomena and feedback behaviors in dialog.