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     CALL FOR PAPERS
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MIAUCE - First International Workshop on Multimodal Interactions  
Analysis of Users a Controlled Environment
http://www.lifl.fr/~martinej/ICMI2008workshop/
Chania, Crete, Greece, October 24, 2008

Satellite workshop of ICMI 2008
http://www.icmi2008.org/

** July 15, 2008: Electronic paper submission deadline
** August 31, 2008: Notification of paper acceptance
** September 12, 2008: Camera ready version submission deadline

The First International MIAUCE workshop on Multimodal Interactions  
Analysis of Users a Controlled Environment will be hosted by the Tenth  
International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) to be  
held in Chania, Crete, on the 24th of October 2008 - morning,  
following the main conference.

The workshop intends to bring together diversity of international  
researchers and practitioners who are currently working in the area of  
multimodal interactions and its applications in multimedia systems. It  
will explore the advances of multimodal interaction techniques  
including (but not limited to):
       -	body move and gesture analysis
       -	visual field, gaze/fixation estimation
       -	eye blink detection
       -	facial expression and emotions
       -	etc.
The workshop aims to study techniques that capture and analyze multi- 
modal behaviour in controlled environments. As a result of such  
analysis, information should be adapted to the user needs and  
situation. Its goal is to stimulate interest in this field and to  
create productive synergy among researchers who are working in this  
fascinating area. Prominent researchers both from academia and  
industry are invited to attend and show advances in the state-of-the- 
art in the field. The workshop also aims to study the usage and the  
effectiveness of the techniques in several applications:
       -	Security,
       -	Customized marketing,
       -	Interactive web TV,
       -	Etc.
Besides, the workshop aims to investigate the legal and ethical  
requirements necessary to design systems and applications. We  
encourage submissions of papers that deal with the social  
acceptability of these ambient intelligence technologies (multi-modal  
behaviour capture). The social study would guarantee the success of  
the multimodal interfaces and their implementations. The workshop is  
interested in how to formulate recommendations that will be presented  
to the policy makers (private and public).
Workshop chairs

     * Jean Martinet, University of Lille, France
     * Nacim Ihaddadene, University of Lille, France
     * Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow, UK