CALL FOR PAPERS
Eye/gaze Tracking: Application to Human-Computer Interface and Multimedia
Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Guest Editor: Chabane Djeraba
http://www.lifl.fr/foxmiire/eyetracking

Eye tracking measures the spatial direction (gaze and eye fixation) where the eyes are pointing. It returns information into what observer found interesting, and how the observer perceived the scene he was viewing. Eye tracking follows the path of an observer visual attention. Visual attention has been studied for over a century. Early studies of attention were technologically limited to simple ocular observations and often time to introspection. Since then, the field has grown to an interdisciplinary subject involving the disciplines of psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience and computer science. While early eye tracking research focused only on systems for in-lab experiments, many commercial and experimental approaches are investigated today for a wide range of applications.
The objective of the special issue is to deal with eye/gaze tracking around two aspects: interaction and multimedia, with specific focus on multimedia document diagnostic and search. We mean by diagnostic, how to make sense out of user attention on multimedia content.
The special issue includes the following topics (not restrictive):

    * System properties (intrusiveness, speed, robustness, and accuracy) for multimedia systems
    * Evaluation of multimedia document structures, websites, film productions and semantics construction
    * Wearable, non-wearable, infrared-based and appearance-based systems
    * Mining visual attention and interests (make sense out of scan paths, several users)
    * Transformation of eye movements into useful knowledge
    * Metrics (total number of fixations, average duration of fixations, length of the scan path, duration of the scan path, surface of the scan path, etc.)
    * Contribution to multi-modality human-computer interaction
    * Multimedia perceptual quality (user satisfaction, ability to analyze, synthesize and assimilate the information content of multimedia)
    * Quality of multimedia presentation between the Quality of Perception and Quality of Services
    * Quality of Perception measures: - Information Assimilation, - Subjective Level of Enjoyment and - Subjective Level of Quality.  
    * Usability of human computer interfaces
    * Media search
    * Visual attention and conventional usability method
    * Applications

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for
Authors as published at http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm. The
format of the paper is the same as request for regular submissions to
the journal. We will collect three peer reviews for each paper as it
is the standard for the journal. Note that mandatory over length page
charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted
electronically through the online manuscript submission system,
available soon. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of
the page. The maximum length of a paper is limited to 25
pages. Schedule

    * Submission deadline: April 5, 2007.
    * Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2007.
    * Final manuscript due date: July 25, 2007.
    * Tentative date of publication: November 2007.