Call for Doctoral Spotlight Session Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces(ICMI'04) October 13-15, 2004 University Park, PA http://www.icmiplace.org Sponsored by ACM The Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'04) will be held October 13-15, 2004 at the Atherton Hotel and the School of Information Sciences Technology Building at the Pennsylvania State University. The conference, sponsored by ACM, will bring together academia, industry and government agencies to present and discuss the latest multidisciplinary work on multimodal interfaces, systems, and applications. ICMI'04 is the foremost international conference representing the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces, which are transforming the nature of human-computer interaction by creating more natural, expressively powerful, flexible and robust means of interacting with computers. To encourage student participation at this year's ICMI 2004, we plan to hold a Doctoral Spotlight session for students to present work not mature enough for presentation as a regular paper. Presentation would be in poster form in a special session, with structured feedback from a committee of senior researchers. Additionally, we expect to be able to offer student travel support for a limited number of Doctoral Spotlight participants. The number and amount of travel support grants will depend on available funding for this program. If more there are more applicants to the spotlight program than available space, participants will be selected based on proximity to finishing their PhD and relevance of the research area. Travel support awards will be selected based on these criteria and inability to otherwise fund participation. To apply to this year's Doctoral Spotlight program, submit a one-page abstract including your name, thesis title, contact information, advisor name, department, and expected degree date, via [log in to unmask] by July 9 (11:59 pm, EDT), 2004. The ACM style guide and submission details, can be found at on the conference web site: http://www.icmiplace.org. To apply for travel support, please also include a one page letter requesting such support and stating what level of travel support from your home institution is otherwise available. Doctoral spotlight participants will be notified by July 28th; travel support awards will be made not earlier than that date. Topics of interest to the conference include: - multimodal input and output interfaces using modalities such as speech, vision, natural language, gesture, gaze, audio, haptics, and pen-based techniques. - multimodal architectures. - multimodal fusion and multisensory integration. - cognitive modeling of users. - multibiometric interfaces. - universal access interfaces. - multimodal wearable/mobile systems. - attentive and attentional interfaces. - system evaluation. - tools and system infrastructure for multimodal interfaces. - and applications of multimodal interfaces. Important Dates: Abstract submissions July 9 (11:59 pm EDT), 2004 Author notification July 28, 2004 Early registration August 31, 2004 Conference October 13-15, 2004 General Co-Chairs Rajeev Sharma, Advanced Interfaces Trevor Darrell, MIT Program Co-Chairs Mary Harper, Purdue Gianni Lazzari, IRST Matthew Turk, UCSB Treasurer Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research Website/Publicity Sanshzar Kettebekov, Advanced Interfaces Publications Francis Quek, Wright State Local Arrangements David Hall, Penn State Demos Gouray Cai, Penn State Area Chairs Mark Billinghurst, HITL-NZ Susan Brennan, SUNYSB Phil Cohen, OHSU Sadaoki Furui, Titech Julia Hirschberg, Columbia Karon MacLean, UBC Shri Narayanan, USC Sharon Oviatt, OHSU Tieniu Tan, NLPR Jie Yang, CMU For more information, see the conference web site: http://www.icmiplace.org Questions? Send email to: [log in to unmask]