MULTIMODAL2017: Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Mid-Air Gestures and Speech-Based Interaction |
Website | http://multimodal2017.fbk.eu |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multimodal2017 |
Submission deadline | July 16, 2017 |
MULTIMODAL2017
Workshop on Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Mid-Air Gestures and Speech-Based Interaction
September 18, 2017 - Cagliari, Italy
http://multimodal2017.fbk.eu/
The main goal of this half-day workshop is to investigate effective ways to leverage the recent advances in the automatic recognition of mid-air gestures and speech commands. In particular, the workshop invites academic researchers and industry practitioners to submit position papers demonstrating research, design, innovative solutions, concepts and hardware and/or software solutions in areas related to mid-air gestures, speech-based and multimodal interaction with an emphasis on (but not limited to) mobile applications and inclusive design for older adults and people with special needs.
The workshop aims to investigate these issues from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together experts on interaction design, user experience, usability, accessibility, innovative hardware and software solutions related to technology based on mid-air gestures, speech and multimodal interaction.
Important dates and Submission Guidelines
July 16 (extended): Position paper submission
July 24: Position paper acceptance notification
August 4: Camera-ready
August 11: Registration
September 18: Multimodal2017 Workshop
September 19-20: Main conference
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All paper submission must be in English and should not exceed four (4) pages in length, including references.
Position papers must be submitted to the EasyChair website as .pdf file formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Publications Format. All the papers will be subjected to a double review process by the members of the Programme Committee.
Please notice that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop by the early registration deadline (August 11, 2017). The workshop registration fee includes two half-day workshops: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. For further information please see the CHItaly registration page.
List of Topics
Position papers focusing on mid-air gestures, speech-based and multimodal interaction are solicited. They should be related but not limited to the following topics:
- Design for mobile interaction
- Design of interaction for people with special needs (e.g., older adults and people with visual impairments)
- Design challenges, user experience, usability and accessibility
- Feedback and feedforward for mid-air gestures
- Machine learning and algorithms for mid-air gestures and/or speech recognition
- System components for mid-air gestures, speech-based and/or multi-modal platforms
- Showcase of systems, technologies, prototypes and/or interactive applications
- Datasets, validation
- Evaluation of mid-air gestures, speech-based and/or multimodal interaction
Committees
Program Committee
- Leonardo Badino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
- Ryad Benosman, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
- Arthur Theil Cabreira, University of Reading, UK.
- Antonella De Angeli, University of Lincoln, UK
- Michela Ferron, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
- Silvia Gabrielli, e-health Unit, FBK, Italy
- Hessam Jahani, Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sidney, AU
- Nadia Mana, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Ornella Mich, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Gianluca Schiavo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
- Massimo Zancanaro, i3 Unit, FBK, Italy
Organizing committee
The organizing committee are an interdisciplinary group working on ECOMODE, an European project funded under Horizon 2020.
Michela Ferron (1) holds a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences from the University of Trento. Her research focuses on the user-centred design and evaluation of multi-modal interaction for older adults, and on the study of technologies for nudging behavioural change.
Nadia Mana (1) holds a PhD degree in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Trento. She has been working at FBK on several projects since June 1996, ranging from Natural Language Processing to HCI, multimodal interaction, user experience, systems to support learning, and interface evaluation.
Ornella Mich (1) holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She has been working in FBK from 1989, specializing in vision research and HCI, focusing on design and evaluation methodologies related to intelligent interfaces and accessibility-related issues.
Leonardo Badino (2) received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2010. He is a senior Postdoc researcher at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at IIT, where he works on the computational analysis of sensorimotor verbal and non‐verbal communication and on speech recognition systems.
Ryad Benosman (3) is Professor at UPMC in Paris. He received a master in Mathematics and a PhD in Robotics, both from UPMC. He leads the Neuromorphic Sensing and Natural Computation group at the Vision Institute, having a world‐leading expertise in developing EDC algorithms, processing software and computational paradigms for computer vision.
(1) Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
(2) Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
(3) Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Venue
September 18, 2017 - Cagliari, Italy
In conjunction with CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter.
http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/
Contact
For further information please visit http://multimodal2017.fbk.eu/
All questions about submissions should be emailed to multimodal2017 [at] fbk.eu