16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014) Call for Papers

16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014) http://icmi.acm.org/2014/ 12-16 November 2014, Istanbul, Turkey Call for Papers The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2014, will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, November 12-16, 2014. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI 2014 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), special sessions, demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will be preceded by workshops and followed by grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2014 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Multimodal interaction processing Machine learning, pattern recognition and signal processing approaches for the analysis and modeling of multimodal interaction between people and among the different modalities within people; adaptation and multimodal input fusion and output generation, addressing any combination of: vision, gaze, audio, speech, smell/olfaction, taste, gestures, pen input, haptic and tangible, bio-signals such as brain, skin conductivity, etc. Interactive systems and applications Mobile and ubiquitous systems, automotive and navigation systems, human-robot and human-virtual agent interaction, virtual and augmented reality, education, authoring, entertainment, gaming, telepresence, assistive and prosthetic systems, brain-computer interfaces, universal access, healthcare, biometry, intelligent environments, meeting analysis and meeting spaces, indexing, retrieval and summarization, etc. Modeling human communication patterns The modalities and the applications named above lead to a need for multimodal models of human-human and human-machine communication, including verbal and nonverbal interaction, affordances of different modalities, multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling, modeling of culture as it pertains to multimodality, long-term multimodal interaction, multimodality in social and affective interaction, multimodal social signal processing. Data, evaluation and standards for multimodal interactive systems Design issues, principles and best practices and authoring techniques for human-machine interfaces using any combinations of input and/or output multiple modalities. Architectures; assessment techniques and methodologies; corpora; annotation and browsing of multimodal interactive data; W3C and other standards for multimodal interaction and interfaces, evaluation techniques for multimodal systems. Urban Interactions Interactions with the city, urban computation, smart cities, applications to promote energy conservation and healthy living, interactive public spaces, interactive artworks in the city, applications for inclusion in metropolitan areas, mobile applications for interacting with the city, crowdsourcing via urban interactions. Submissions in these areas are invited for workshop topics, special session topics, full papers, short papers, demos, and for the doctoral consortium. Conference Venue The conference will be held at Bogazici University Campus in Istanbul. Keynotes -Dr. Yvonne Rogers, Professor of Interaction Design, University College London, UK -Dr. Vishal Sikka, SAP AG, Germany -Dr. Genevieve Bell, Director of Intel Corporation's Interaction and Experience Research, USA Important dates Long and short paper submission May 16th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT) Reviews available, rebuttal period From July 15th, 2014, to July 18th, 2014 Doctoral consortium submission July 1st, 2014 Main conference paper notification August 11th, 2014 Demo proposals July 15th, 2014 Camera-ready submissions September 10th, 2014 Challenges November 12th, 2014 Main Conference From November 13th, 2014, to November 15th, 2014 Workshops November 16th, 2014 Committees Organising Committee General Chairs Albert Ali Salah (Bogaziçi University, Turkey) Jeffrey Cohn (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Björn Schuller (Technische Universitat München, Germany) Program Chairs Oya Aran (Idiap, Switzerland) Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA) Philip R. Cohen (Adapx, USA) Workshop Chairs Alexandros Potamianos (University of Crete, Greece) Carlos Busso (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Demo Chairs Kazuhiro Otsuka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Lale Akarun (Bogaziçi University, Turkey) Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Hatice Gunes (Queen Mary University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs Marco Cristani (University of Verona, Italy) Justine Cassell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Publication Chairs Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow, UK) Zakia Hammal (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Publicity Chair Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy) Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan) Sponsorship Chair Aytül Erçil (Sabanci University, Turkey) Local Organization Chair Hazim Ekenel (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) Senior Program Committee Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, the Netherlands Ashish Kapoor, MSR, USA Bülent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey Catherine Pelachaud, Télécom ParisTech, France Dan Bohus, MSR, USA Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy James Rehg, Georgia Tech, USA Jonathan Gratch, USC, USA Kenji Mase, Nagoya University, Japan Konstantinos Moustakas, University of Patras, Greece Mary Czerwinski, MSR, USA Metin Sezgin, Koc University, Turkey Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Roland Goecke, University of Canberra, Australia Samuel Kaski, Aalto University, Finland Sharon Oviatt, Incaa Designs, USA Shri Narayanan, USC, USA Sidney D'Mello, University of Notre Dame, USA Simon Lucey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld, Germany Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, the Netherlands Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia, China