CALL FOR PAPERS
COGAIN 2006: GAZING INTO THE FUTURE
The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction
4-5 September 2006
Turin, Italy
OVERVIEW
The conference provides a unique focus on communication by eye-gaze.
It concentrates on the use of eye-gaze primarily for users with
different types of disabilities in the context of interacting with
computer applications, environment control and mobility. The
conference has a strong involvement with disabled users and forms a
vital bridge between those who develop gaze measurement and
communication systems, those who research into the construction and
use, and those who actually use, or could use, the systems. There is
a strong emphasis in the conference on a range of subjects from
technical issues to disabled user requirements and usability issues.
The conference is the second annual conference of COGAIN, a European
Union funded research Network of Excellence, which comprises 25
universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations.
The theme of the conference is defining the future in terms of a
research agenda for gaze-based communication.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference will be run over two days:
Day 1 (Monday 4th September, 2006): Academic Sessions
Day 2 (Tuesday 5th September, 2006): User and Industry Sessions
The academic sessions (Day 1) depart from the traditional format of
paper presentations and instead will take the form of 4 workshops. The
proceedings will be in three parts: a collection of short papers from
participants published on the conference web-site and made available
at the conference; an edited summary of the workshop sessions in the
form of text and video and a special edition of the Journal of
Universal Access in the Information Society, which will contain
papers from invited participants based on their short papers and
contributions to the workshop sessions.
Each workshop will have a theme around which the short papers will be
collected, and the session chair will present a state-of-the-art
position summary for each theme, together with a series of issues for
the conference participants to address. All participants are invited
to submit a short position paper that summarises their own work to
date, and where they believe the priorities for the future lie. The
provisional set of themes is:
* Eyetracking systems: low-cost systems, mobile systems, software,
algorithms, calibration techniques and issues, integration with
operating systems, standards.
* Gaze-aware communication software: eye-typing systems, interfaces
to common applications, end-user configuration, gaze-aware
applications, edutainment.
* Integration of gaze with other modalities: multimodal interaction,
user performance and preference studies, attentive interfaces, gaze
and brain integration.
* Human factors and user-related issues: Requirements for various
disabled user groups, measuring usability with disabled groups,
usability issues with gaze-based systems, case studies of user
experience with gaze communication, training in the use of gaze-communication.
The user and industry sessions (Day 2) will follow a similar format
to the successful event held in Copenhagen during COGAIN 2005
Conference. The sessions will contain presentations from users of
gaze-based systems, from representatives of end-user organizations
and from industry, as well as opportunities for end users and
researchers to try out the latest systems from the participating
manufacturers. One of the most valuable aspects of last year's
meeting was the opportunity it gave the academic research community
and industry to meet, listen to, and observe users of gaze-based
systems, and to understand their priorities and needs for system
design and use. Furthermore, the session will provide manufacturers
an ideal and unique opportunity to showcase their products to a
highly specialist audience of those active and interested in
gaze-based communication. Photographs of last year's event are
available at www.cogain.org/photos.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of short papers: 31st May 2006
Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006
Workshops at Conference: 4th September 2006
Invitation to submit Journal Papers: 30th September 2006
Deadline for Submission of Journal Papers: 31st January 2007
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are requested to submit their short papers (c. 1000 - 1500
words) using the COGAIN conference format (for a template and
instructions, see http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006). A condition of
acceptance is that at least one of the authors will attend the
conference. Best papers will be invited to submit full long papers
for a special issue in the Universal Access in the Information
Society (UAIS) journal. The special edition editors in consultation
with the editor in chief of the journal will distribute the papers to
three reviewers who are experts in the field.
The text should be clear enough to allow reviewers to judge the
potential of the paper's suitability for COGAIN 2006. The suitability
of the paper will be judged on the following criteria:
* Originality
* Statements of main results obtained so far (need not be final results)
* Clear identification of future research needs
* Clarity of presentation
* Technical soundness
Authors are requested to email their paper for consideration to Howell Istance:
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)116 2506103
Conference Co-Chairs
Howell Istance (De Montfort University)
Laura Farinetti (Politecnico di Torino)
More information is available at http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006
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