[humaine news] eNTERFACE'09 - 5th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES

[Ginevra Castellano]

eNTERFACE'09 - 5th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES
http://www.infomus.org/enterface09  

July 13 - August 7, 2009

Casa Paganini - InfoMus Lab, DIST - University of Genova, Piazza Santa Maria
in Passione 34,
16123 Genova, Italy 
www.casapaganini.org   


CALL OR PROJECT PROPOSALS
Casa Paganini - InfoMus Lab, DIST - University of Genova, invites project
proposals for eNTERFACE'09, the 5th summer workshop on multimodal
interfaces, to be held in Genova, Italy, from July 13th to August 7th, 2009.
Following the tremendous success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops
(www.enterface.net) held in Mons, Belgium (2005), Dubrovnik, Croatia (2006),
Istanbul, Turkey (2007), and Paris, France (2008), eNTERFACE'09 aims at
continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localized research
and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading researchers in
multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific projects for 4
complete weeks. eNTERFACE'09 will encompass presentation sessions, including
tutorial state-of-the-art surveys on several aspects of design of multimodal
interfaces, given by invited senior researchers, and periodical
presentations of the results achieved by each project group. The ultimate
goal is to make this event a unique opportunity for students and experts all
over the world to meet and effectively work together, so as to foster the
development of tomorrow's multimodal research community. Project submissions
on all themes below are welcome. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary
proposals covering several themes and proposals integrating the
OpenInterface and/or the EyesWeb XMI platforms. 

THEMES
We invite submissions on themes related to innovative multimodal interfaces
including, but not restricted to:
* Multimodal signal analysis and synthesis
* Signal-level and meaning-level data fusion
* Intuitive interfaces and personalized systems in real and virtual
environments
* User, context and semantics-aware self-learning and adapting systems
* Multimodal conversational systems
* Usability
* Innovative modalities and modalities conversion
* Multimodality for plasticity
* Multimodality for biometrics and security
* Edutainment and learning assistance
* Medical applications
* Embodied agents
* Performing arts applications
* Multimodal interfaces for mobile devices
* Multimodal interfaces for embodied social experience of multimedia content
* Affective Multimodal Interfaces for Digital Art and Entertainment
* Multimodal Semantic Fusion
* Open-Source Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Multimodal Interactive
Applications

IMPORTANT DATES
* January 10th, 2009: Reception of a 1 page Notification of Interest, with a
summary of project goals, work-packages, and deliverables;
* January 31th, 2009: Reception of the complete project proposal in the
format provided by the Author's kit available at
http://www.infomus.org/enterface09;
* February 15th, 2009: Notification of project acceptance; Publication of
the Call for Participation;
* March 20st, 2009: Closing of the Call for Participation;
* March 30th, 2009: Publication of teams;
* July 13th  August 7th eNTERFACE'09 Workshop.

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format to enterface09 at casapaganini.org

Proposals will be screened by the Scientific Committee for suitability to
the workshop goals and format. 
A call for PhD students and researchers participation to projects will be
launched on February 15th, 2009. 
Authors of the accepted proposals will then be invited to build their teams.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACT
For any further information/question/comment/suggestion, please visit the
eNTERFACE'09 website at:
http://www.infomus.org/enterface09
or send a message to the local organizing committee at
enterface09 at casapaganini.org  


-- 
Dr. Ginevra Castellano
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science 
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3234
Email: ginevra at dcs.qmul.ac.uk