[visionlist] SECOND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE in St. Petersburg

[Sebastian Pannasch]

                                     Workshop 
  Eye Movements, Cognition and Communication (EMCoC) 
                                        within 

 SECOND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE 

                      June 9-13, 2006, St. Petersburg 

                             2nd Call for Papers 

The Russian Association for Cognitive Studies and EU 
Network-of-Excellence  COGAIN (Communication by Gaze Interaction) 
invite submissions for the First  Workshop on Eye Movements, Cognition 
and Communication (EMCoC) to be held on  June13, 2006, in St. 
Petersburg. Intentional activity is the key component  of any 
biological and -- in an increasing way -- artificial information  
processing.  EMCoC is the first of what we hope will be a number of  
scientific meetings that bring together researchers and practitioners 
in  areas such as eye movements, active vision, attention and action,  
neurocognitive and neuroaffective mechanisms of oculomotor activity in 
 cognitive and communicative tasks, innovative applications of 
eye-tracking  in all domains, especially for communication and 
security purposes (e.g. in  adaptive assistance systems).  

The Workshop encourages submissions on the following topics:  

* Relationship between attention and eye movements,  
* Ambient vs. focal modes of oculomotor activity,  
* Eye movements and scene recognition,  
* Visual fixations and levels-of-processing effects in cognitive 
   tasks,  
* Eye movements in language processing and communication,  
* Innovative applications of eye-tracking research,  
* New ways of data-analysis and presentation (attentional landscapes,   
  fixation maps, etc.),  
* Advances in the methodology of eye-tracking and its combination with 
  brain activity analysis.  

The goal of the Workshop is twofold:  
- to discuss the state-of-the-art of eye movement research in 
 cognitive science  
- to attract the interest of cognitive community to eye-tracking and 
 its innovative applications.  

EXTENDED SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2005.   
ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:  
cogsci06 at cs.msu.su   

There are two categories for submission:   
PAPERS (20- or 30-minute spoken presentations) and POSTERS.   
Submitted abstracts should be in Russian or English and no longer than 
2  pages (single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 type size), including  
illustrations and references. They will be evaluated through peer 
review  with respect to several criteria, including originality, 
quality, and  significance of research, relevance to a broad audience 
of cognitive science  researchers, and clarity of presentation. One 
author cannot participate in  more than two submitted papers (only 
once as a first author).  
 Papers accepted for oral presentation will be presented at the  
conference as scheduled talks. Papers accepted for poster presentation 
will  be presented at a poster session at the conference. All papers 
may present  results from completed original unpublished research as 
well as report on  current research with an emphasis on novel 
approaches, methods, ideas, and  perspectives. FORMAT: MS Word file 
attached to an e-mail message. At the beginning of an  abstract please 
indicate the following information:  
- the title of the paper  
- the author(s) information, including:  
     full name  
     institutional affiliation  
     postal address  
     phone number  
     e-mail address  
- 5 to 7 keywords  
- Whether the papers is intended to be presented as talk or as poster  

The Program Committee will inform the authors of its decision by 
FEBRUARY  15, 2006. Abstracts of the accepted papers will be published 
by the  beginning of the conference.  

Workshop chairs:   
Prof. Boris M. Velichkovsky (velich at psychomail.tu-dresden.de)   
and  
Prof. Kari-Jouko Raiha (kjr at cs.uta.fi)   

Conference/Workshop fee is 150 EUR (students and doctoral students - 
50 EUR).  Hotels and hostels can be reserved via the organizers of the 
Conference  (from 40 EUR for*** hotels and higher for **** hotels per 
night). Students  can reserve a limited number of rooms at the 
University Hostel (12 EUR per  night).  St. Petersburg is one of the 
most beautiful cities in Europe, and  the Conference takes place in 
the prime time - the famous White Nights.  City-tours, an excursion to 
the Hermitage and a night-boat tour along the  Neva-river will be 
organized.   

Additional information on the conference is available at the web site 
of the Association for Cognitive Studies www.cogsci.ru/cogsci06/index_e.htm  
or by e-mail at cogsci06 at cs.msu.su.