[vslist] Call for Papers: 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2002

[Victoria L. MacLaren]

Following the success of the previous three conferences held in 1996, 1999 
and 2000, the fourth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 
(ICMI'2002) will be held in Pittsburgh, 14-16 October 2002. ICMI'02 brings 
together multimodal interface researchers,  developers and end-users 
together to present, demonstrate and discuss their latest work. It will 
also provide those interested in multimodal interfaces a unique opportunity 
to keep abreast with the latest development in this increasingly important 
subject.

Multimodal interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research 
direction, involving spoken language understanding, natural language 
understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, 
experimental psychology, etc.  They aim at efficient, convenient and 
natural interaction and communication between computers and human users. 
Multimodal interfaces will ultimately enable users to interact with 
computers using their everyday skills.
Papers describing original work on all aspects of multimodal interfaces are 
solicited.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:
* Perceptual computing models and systems
* Speech recognition and synthesis
* Character and handwriting recognition
* Hand gesture and lip-motion recognition
* Gaze tracking, face detection and facial expression recognition
* Machine translation and multilingual interfaces
* Computer graphics for multimodal interfaces
* Sensors for multimodal interfaces
* Affective computing for HCI
* Distributed HCI
* Multimodal interfaces for the Internet and virtual reality
* Multimodal interfaces for wearable and mobile computing
* Multimodal interfaces for the disabled
* Human factors in multimodal interfaces
* Platforms and tools

S u b m i s s i o n
Papers must be written in English and should be no longer than 6 pages 
single spaced, and should use a font no smaller than 12-point. All printed 
material must follow the CS press specifications 
(http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) . The title page should 
include the title of the paper, an abstract (200-300 words), a list of 
keywords, and the authors' contact details (postal and email addresses, fax 
and phone numbers). Electronic files should be in PDF or PostScript.
Proposals for demonstrations can also be submitted.

P u b l i c a t i o n
Papers accepted for presentation at the Conference will be included in the 
Proceedings to be published by CS press.

I m p o r t a n t  D a t e s

* 15 May 2002     Paper submission due	Paper submission due
* 30 June 2002	Notification of acceptance
* 30 July 2002 	Camera-ready manuscript due
* 14-16 October 2002	Conference

Q u e s t i o n s ?
For further information, please consult the Conference Homepage: 
www.is.cs.cmu.edu/icmi

or contact us:
ICMI'02 secretariat / Celine Morel
Interactive Systems lab
NSH ,  5000 Forbes ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224 USA
Tel +1 412 268 5480   Fax +1 412 268 5578
celine@cs.cmu.edu

C o n f e r e n c e   H o m e p a g e
http://www.is.cs.cmu.edu/icmi

G e n e r a l  C o - C h a i r s
Alex Waibel (CMU, USA)
Wen  Gao (CAS, China)


P r o g r a m   C o m m i t t e e  C o - C h a i r s
Jie Yang (CMU, USA)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research, USA)
Sadoki Furui (TIT , Japan)


Program  Committee:
G. Abowd, (Georgia Tech, USA)
C. Atkeson (CMU, USA)
X. Chen (CMU, USA)
P.  Cohen  (OGI, USA)
J. Cohn (Pittsburgh University, USA)
J. Coutaz (CLIPS, France)
J. L. Crowley  (Inria, France)
T. Darrell  (MIT, USA)
R. Dillman (UKA, Germany)
I. Essa (Georgia Tech, USA)
M. Flickner  (IBM-Almaden, CA)
M. Federico (IRST, Italy)
T. Huang (UIUC USA)
G. Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Y. Lecun (ATT, USA)
D. Massaro  (UC-Santa Cruz)
K. Mase (ATR, Japan)
B. Myers (CMU, USA)
S. Nakamura (ATR, Japan)
R. Picard  (MIT, USA)
G. Riccardi (ATT labs., USA)
C. Rohrer (Stuttgart University, Germany)
S. Shafer  (Microsoft Research, USA)
H. Shum (Microsoft Research China)
D. Siewiorek (CMU, USA)
T. Starner (Georgia tech, USA)
O. Stock (IRST, Italy)
B. Suhm (BBN, USA)
T. Tan (NLPR, China)
M. Turk  (UCSB, USA)
B. Xu  (CAS, China)
J. W. Yang  (ETRI, Korea)

Finance:
M. Bett (CMU, USA)

Arrangement:
C. Morel (CMU, USA)

Publicity:
V. MacLaren (CMU, USA)