[4eyes] ICMI 2012 Conference, Oct 22-26 - Santa Monica, CA

[Matthew Turk]

FYI

======================================
ICMI 2012 - Call for Participation
======================================

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2012
Santa Monica, California, October 22-26 2012
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012 

* News *

- The technical program is now available 
	  http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/index.php?id=program 

* Program *

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction is the premier
international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human
and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The
conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component
technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the
field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system
development. ICMI 2012 will feature a single-track main conference (Oct
23-25) which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers
(including oral and poster presentations), special sessions, demonstrations,
exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. 

* Keynote Speakers *

- Charles Goodwin, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of
California at Los Angeles, USA. "The Co-operative, Transformative
Organization of Human Action and Knowledge"
- Ivan Poupyrev, Senior Research Scientist, Walt Disney Corporation.
"Infusing the Physical World into User Interfaces"
- Roberta Klatzky, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University.
"Using Psychophysical Techniques to Design and Evaluate Multi-modal
Interfaces"

* Grand Challenges * 

The conference will be preceded by a day of Grand Challenge workshops on Oct
22:

- AVEC 2012: The 2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and
Workshop
- Haptic Voice Recognition Grand Challenge
- D-META Grand Challenge: Data sets for Multimodal Evaluation Tasks and
Annotations
- BCI Grand Challenge Brain-Computer Interfaces as intelligent sensors for
enhancing
 Human-Computer Interaction

* Workshops *

The conference will be followed by a day of workshops on Oct 26:

- Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically embodied
Conversational Agents
- Multimodal Learning Analytics
- 4th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction
- International Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music
- 1st Workshop on Smart Material Interfaces

* Sponsors *

ACM, SIGCHI, Openstream, USC ICT, PASCAL2, Microsoft Research, Nuance,
Disney Research

* Registration * 

    Full Conference: 
    	ACM Members: $675
    	Non-ACM Members: $775
    	Students: $425
    Workshop and Challenges only: $150
    http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/index.php?id=registration

* Venue *

ICMI 2012 conference and workshops will be held at the DoubleTree Suites by
Hilton Hotel Santa Monica in California, USA. It is walking distance from
Santa Monica Beach and the Third Street Promenade with easy access to Los
Angeles Airport, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Century City, Malibu and
Hollywood.

  DoubleTree Suites Santa Monica
  1707 Fourth Street
  Santa Monica, California ,United States 90401
  Tel: (1)310-395-3332
  Fax: (1)310-458-6493
  Web: http://doubletree.hilton.com/ 

* Accommodation *

Santa Monica is a world class destination with multiple hotels, bed and
breakfasts and motels. The main conference hotel will be the Doubletree
Guest Suite Hotel. A special ICMI 2012 rate for the conference hotel is
available. 
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/index.php?id=accommodation