[visionlist] Call for Papers - The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction

[Sebastian Pannasch]

CALL FOR PAPERS

                 COGAIN 2006: GAZING INTO THE FUTURE
   The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction

                         4-5 September 2006
                            Turin, Italy


OVERVIEW

The conference provides a unique focus on 
communication by eye-gaze. It concentrates on the 
use of eye-gaze primarily for users with 
different types of disabilities in the context of 
interacting with computer applications, 
environment control and mobility. The conference 
has a strong involvement with disabled users and 
forms a vital bridge between those who develop 
gaze measurement and communication systems, those 
who research into the construction and use, and 
those who actually use, or could use, the 
systems. There is a strong emphasis in the 
conference on a range of subjects from technical 
issues to disabled user requirements and 
usability issues. The conference is the second 
annual conference of COGAIN, a European Union 
funded research Network of Excellence, which 
comprises 25 universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations.

The theme of the conference is defining the 
future in terms of a research agenda for gaze-based communication.


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be run over two days:
Day 1 (Monday 4th September, 2006): Academic Sessions
Day 2 (Tuesday 5th September, 2006): User and Industry Sessions

The academic sessions (Day 1) depart from the 
traditional format of paper presentations and 
instead will take the form of 4 workshops. The 
proceedings will be in three parts: a collection 
of short papers from participants published on 
the conference web-site and made available at the 
conference; an edited summary of the workshop 
sessions in the form of text and video and a 
special edition of the Journal of Universal 
Access in the Information Society, which will 
contain papers from invited participants based on 
their short papers and contributions to the workshop sessions.

Each workshop will have a theme around which the 
short papers will be collected, and the session 
chair will present a state-of-the-art position 
summary for each theme, together with a series of 
issues for the conference participants to 
address. All participants are invited to submit a 
short position paper that summarises their own 
work to date, and where they believe the 
priorities for the future lie. The provisional set of themes is:

* Eyetracking systems: low-cost systems, mobile 
systems, software, algorithms, calibration 
techniques and issues, integration with operating systems, standards.
* Gaze-aware communication software: eye-typing 
systems, interfaces to common applications, 
end-user configuration, gaze-aware applications, edutainment.
* Integration of gaze with other modalities: 
multimodal interaction, user performance and 
preference studies, attentive interfaces, gaze and brain integration.
* Human factors and user-related issues: 
Requirements for various disabled user groups, 
measuring usability with disabled groups, 
usability issues with gaze-based systems, case 
studies of user experience with gaze 
communication, training in the use of gaze-communication.

The user and industry sessions (Day 2) will 
follow a similar format to the successful event 
held in Copenhagen during COGAIN 2005 Conference. 
The sessions will contain presentations from 
users of gaze-based systems, from representatives 
of end-user organizations and from industry, as 
well as opportunities for end users and 
researchers to try out the latest systems from 
the participating manufacturers. One of the most 
valuable aspects of last year's meeting was the 
opportunity it gave the academic research 
community and industry to meet, listen to, and 
observe users of gaze-based systems, and to 
understand their priorities and needs for system 
design and use. Furthermore, the session will 
provide manufacturers an ideal and unique 
opportunity to showcase their products to a 
highly specialist audience of those active and 
interested in gaze-based communication. 
Photographs of last year's event are available 
at www.cogain.org/photos.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of short papers: 31st May 2006
Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006
Workshops at Conference: 4th September 2006
Invitation to submit Journal Papers: 30th September 2006
Deadline for Submission of Journal Papers: 31st January 2007


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are requested to submit their short 
papers (c. 1000 - 1500 words) using the COGAIN 
conference format (for a template and 
instructions, see 
http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006). A condition of 
acceptance is that at least one of the authors will attend the conference. 
Best papers will be invited to submit full long papers for a special issue in 
the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal. The special 
edition editors in consultation with the editor in chief of the journal will 
distribute the papers to three reviewers who are experts in the field.

The text should be clear enough to allow 
reviewers to judge the potential of the paper's 
suitability for COGAIN 2006. The suitability of 
the paper will be judged on the following criteria:

* Originality
* Statements of main results obtained so far (need not be final results)
* Clear identification of future research needs
* Clarity of presentation
* Technical soundness


Authors are requested to email their paper for consideration to Howell Istance:
Email: howell.istance at cogain.org
Tel: +44 (0)116 2506103

Conference Co-Chairs
Howell Istance (De Montfort University)
Laura Farinetti (Politecnico di Torino)

More information is available at http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006

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