Dear Colleagues,
Please forward to anyone who you think might be interested in participating
in the conference.
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Call for Participation
Deadline for Special Sessions and Workshops: APRIL 15, 2008
Deadline for Abstract submission: MAY 9, 2008
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ACM / IEEE 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI
2008)
Chania, Crete, Greece, October 20-22, 2008
http://www.icmi2008.org/
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The main aim of ICMI 2008 is to further scientific research within the broad
field of multimodal interaction and systems. The conference will focus on
major trends and challenges in this area, including help identify a roadmap
for future research and commercial success. ICMI 2008 will feature a main
conference with keynote speakers, panel discussions, technical paper
presentations and discussion (single track), poster sessions, and
demonstrations of state-of-the-art multimodal concepts and systems as well
as workshops. Organized on the island of Crete, ICMI-08 provides excellent
conditions for brainstorming and sharing the latest advances about
multimodal interaction and systems in an inspired setting full of history,
mythology and art.
Paper Submission
There are two different submission categories: regular paper and short
paper. The page limit is 8 pages for regular papers and 4 pages for short
papers. The presentation style (oral or poster) will be decided based on
suitable delivery of the content. Full or short papers may also be submitted
as part of a Special Session submission.
Demo Submission
Proposals for demonstrations shall be submitted to demo chairs
electronically. A 1-2 page description of the demonstration is required.
Doctoral Spotlight
Doctoral Student Travel Support and Spotlight Session. Funds are anticipated
to support participation of doctoral candidates at ICMI 2008, and a
spotlight session is planned to showcase ongoing thesis work. Students
interested in travel support should submit a short or long paper as
specified above.
Workshop Submission
Proposals for workshops on all topics of multimodal interaction and its
applications are sought. Especially encouraged are cross-disciplinary
workshops, and workshops focusing on new and emerging areas.
Topics of interest include
. Multimodal and Multimedia processing
. Multimodal input and output interfaces
. Multimodal applications
. Multimodal Architectures, Tools and Standards
. Evaluation of Multimodal Interfaces
Important Dates:
Special session proposal: April 15, 2008
Abstract submission: May 9, 2008
Paper submission: May 16, 2008
Author notification July 14, 2008
Camera ready deadline: August 15, 2008
Conference: October 20-22, 2008
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Vassilis Digalakis, TU Crete, Greece
Alex Potamianos, TU Crete, Greece
Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Program Co-Chairs
Roberto Pieraccini, SpeechCycle, USA
Jian Wang, Microsoft Research, China
Workshops & Special Sessions
Fabio Pianesi, FBK-irst, Italy
Aikaterini Mania, TU Crete, Greece
Finance Chair
Rainer Stiefelhagen, U. Karlsruhe, Germany
Publicity Chair
Rana el Kaliouby, MIT Media Lab, USA
Demo Chair
Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden
Poster & Web
Ilias Iosif, TU Crete, Greece
Local Arrangements
Lida Dimitropoulou, TU Crete, Greece
ICMI Advisory Board
Matthew Turk, Chair, UCSB, USA
Jim Crowley, INRIA, France
Trevor Darrell, MIT, USA
Kenji Mase, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA
Sharon Oviatt, Adapx, USA
Fabio Pianesi, FBK-irst, Italy
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany
Jie Yang, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
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Rana el Kaliouby, PhD
Post-doctoral Associate
MIT | Media Laboratory
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