- From: Silvia Rocchi <sirocchi@itc.it>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:38:49 +0200
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Posted on behalf of Elena Zudilova-Seinstra and Tony Adriaansen [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & EXTENDED DEADLINES ICMI'05 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for the Visualization 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 elenaz@science.uva.nl and tony.adriaansen@csiro.au by July 15, 2005. 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: Following the requests of potential workshop contributors the main deadlines have been extended. Please note the changes: Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2005 Acceptance notification: August 1, 2005 Camera-ready papers due to: August 20, 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: elenaz@science.uva.nl 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: tony.adriaansen@csiro.au
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