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ICMI 2019: Call for Long and Short Papers
https://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=cfp
Abstract Submission: May 1, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Final Submission: May 7, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
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Call for Long and Short Papers
The 21st International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in
Suzhou, China. ICMI 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.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI
community. ICMI 2019 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote
speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations),
demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature
workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2019 will be published by ACM as
part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences. These
papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific
knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this
reason, the "novelty" criteria used during ICMI 2019 review will be based on two
sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted
papers at ICMI 2019 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a
paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty
should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on
knowledge discovery.
Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific
community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental
health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children’s interactions during learning.
It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly
discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in
their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples
include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or
in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing
approach.
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors for detailed submission instructions.
This year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme of multi-modal understanding of
multi-party interactions. Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Affective computing and interaction
Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
Gesture, touch and haptics
Healthcare, assistive technologies
Human communication dynamics
Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
Interaction with smart environment
Machine learning for multimodal interaction
Mobile multimodal systems
Multimodal behavior generation
Multimodal datasets and validation
Multimodal dialogue modeling
Multimodal fusion and representation
Multimodal interactive applications
Speech behaviors in social interaction
System components and multimodal platforms
Visual behaviors in social interaction
Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission May 1, 2019
Final submissions May 7, 2019
Paper rebuttal due June 25, 2019
Autdor notification July 7, 2019
Paper Camera Ready July 15, 2019
Best regards,
Social Media Chair ICMI 2019
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
http://ri.cmu.edu/personal-pages/ZakiaHammal/