[visionlist] PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance Edinburgh, 17-19 April 2012

[P George Lovell]

PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance 
Edinburgh, 17-19 April 2012


Following on from two highly successful cross-disciplinary conferences 
in Ghent and Paris we are very happy to invite submissions for the above 
event.

IMPORTANT DATES

- 12 December 2011: extended submission deadline

- 19 December 2011: review allocation to reviewers

- 09 January 2012:  review upload deadline

- 14 January 2012:  authors informed

- 17-19 April 2012: Conference

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk <http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk>

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Larry Maloney, Dept. Psychology, New York University, USA.

- Françoise Viénot, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Mike Chantler, Julie Harris, Mike Pointer

SCOPE

Originally focused on the perception of texture and translucency and 
particularly gloss, and colour we wish to extend the conference to 
include other senses not just sight (e.g. how does sound affect our 
perception of the qualities of a fabric) and to emotive as well as 
objective qualities (e.g. desirability and engagement) and to digital as 
well and physical media.

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference addresses appearance in its broadest sense and seeks to 
be truly cross-disciplinary. Papers related, but not restricted to the 
following are welcomed:

- Prediction and measurement of human perceptions formed by sensory 
input of the physical and digital worlds

- New methods for estimating psychometric transfer functions

- Methods for measuring perceived texture, translucency and form.

- Effects of lighting and other environmental factors on perception

- Effects of binocular viewing, motion parallax, and depth from focus

- Methods for measuring engagement and emotions such as desirability

- Effects of other sensory input (e.g. audio, smell, touch)

- Effects of user control of media

- Colour fidelity, colour harmony, colour and emotion

- Methods for measuring inferred qualities including expensiveness, 
quality, wearability etc

- Techniques for encouraging and facilitating observer participation 
(design games, gamification of experiments, crowd sourcing etc.)

- Saliency

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of two pages in 
English, there is no requirement for originality instead papers should 
encourage discussion.


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Predicting Perceptions: the 3rd International Conference on Appearance

http://www.perceptions.macs.hw.ac.uk/

-- 
Dr P. George Lovell,
Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews

     RM 1.05 (The white room).
     Phone      (01334) 462090

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