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CALL FOR PAPERS
ICMI'05 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for theVisualization and
Exploration of Scientific Data http://www.science.uva.nl/~elenaz/ICMI/
in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Multimodal
Interfaces
http://icmi05.itc.it/
October 3, 2005 Trento, ITALY
The ICMI'05 workshop on Multimodal Interaction for the
Visualization and Exploration of Scientific Data will take
place in Trento, Italy on October 3, 2005. It is aimed to
bring together academic researchers and practitioners from
computer science, human-computer interaction, virtual
reality, artificial intelligence, software engineering and
psychology to discuss the challenges and opportunities
provided by multimodal interaction when it is applied to the
field of scientific visualization.
Based on the combination of several modalities including
graphical user interface, speech, gestures, direct
manipulation, haptics, real time video and audio; multimodal
interfaces enable people's interaction with the visual
representations of simulated phenomena. This results in
interaction being more intuitive and flexible. The maturing
virtual and augmented reality techniques, together with
emerging haptic interfaces and multimedia networking
technologies open the way to new forms of collaborative work
and new domains of multi-participant systems, including
collaborative visualization.
When highly skilled and coordinated human communicative
behavior controls interactions, multimodal interfaces may
improve the accessibility for diverse users and contexts.
Based on multimodal communicative acts, social user
interfaces (e.g., embodied agents) are aimed at emphasizing
'human-to-human' properties of interaction and, therefore,
permit the building of a kind of relationship with an
interactive environment and other users to facilitate the
exploration of scientific data. To allow people to use their
everyday skills and to improve coverage, reliability and
usability, researchers are designing multimodal interfaces
that automatically learn and adapt to important user, task
and environmental parameters.
The main research question that we would like to address is
how to efficiently integrate visualisation and modern
multimodal interaction technologies to ensure good user
experience. We will consider the impact of the application
field-orientation as well as domain-independent criteria for
choosing between modern interaction techniques and input devices.
Therefore, we are seeking original contributions that deal
with (but are not limited to):
- Interactive and multimodal data visualization
- Multimodal and cross-modal haptic interfaces
- Virtual exploration environments
- Collaborative visualization in VR
- Perceptual and attentive user interfaces
- Embodied agents
- Language driven interaction
- Adaptive interaction for the effective exploration of
scientific data
- Human factors in the computer-supported exploration
- Design guidelines for interactive visualization tools
- Multimodal interactive visualization applications and systems
Biomedicine, product design, manufacturing process control,
phobia therapy, surgical training, car, ship and flight
simulators: these are just a few domains where multimodal
interaction and scientific visualization have already been
combined. To discuss existing solutions we encourage both
researchers and developers to contribute to this workshop.
During the workshop they will have the opportunity to show
their products (or research prototypes), while potential
users can pose their requests.
Paper Submissions:
We invite research papers (maximum 8 pages). Submitted papers
must be original, containing new and original results. All
submissions will be pre-reviewed and selected based on
contribution to the workshop topic, originality and the
shared interests of participants. The workshop submission
will be accepted from the academic, industrial and commercial
institutes.
Please send your submissions as a single PDF or PS file to
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For the format, we strongly recommend to use ACM SIG
Proceedings Templates.
Publication:
All papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the
Workshop Proceedings provided by ITC. Detailed information
about the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates recommended by ITC
can be found on the web site:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
In addition, a selected number of the accepted workshop
papers will be expanded and revised for the possible
inclusion into the post-workshop special issue of "Knowledge
and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2005
Acceptance notification: July 25, 2005
Camera-ready papers due to: August 15, 2005
Workshop: October 3, 2005
Organizers:
Co-chair: Elena Zudilova-Seinstra, University of Amsterdam (the
Netherlands)
Co-chair: Tony Adriaansen, CSIRO (Australia)
Workshop Program Committee:
Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Andrea Corradini,
University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) Vanessa Evers,
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Pilar Herrero,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) Chris Johnson,
University of Utah (USA) Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Carnegie
Mellon University (USA) Piet Kommers, University of Twente
(the Netherlands) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (the
Netherlands) Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin
(Ireland) Binh Pham, Queensland University of Technology
(Australia) Daniela Maria Romano, University of Sheffield
(UK) Corina Sas, Lancaster University (UK) Kamran Sedig,
University of Western Ontario (Canada) Peter Sloot,
University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) Robert van Liere,
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (the
Netherlands)
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Contact Information:
Elena Zudilova-Seinstra
Scientific Visualization and VR Group
Section Computational Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 525 7542
Fax: +31 20 525 7419
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tony Adriaansen
ICT Centre, CSIRO
P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9372 4326
Fax: +61 2 9372 4411
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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