Special Issue of the
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
on EYE GAZE IN INTELLIGENT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION

Main submission deadline: December 15th, 2010
If you should have problems to meet this deadline, please let us know.

http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html

AIMS AND SCOPE

Partly because of the increasing availability of nonintrusive and high-performance eye tracking devices, recent years have seen a growing interest in incorporating human eye gaze in intelligent user interfaces. Eye gaze has been used as a pointing mechanism in direct manipulation interfaces, for example, to assist users with “locked-in syndrome”. It has also been used as a reflection of information needs in web search and as a basis for tailoring information presentation. Detection of joint attention as indicated by eye gaze has been used to facilitate computer-supported human-human communication. In conversational interfaces, eye gaze has been used to improve language understanding and intention recognition. On the output side, eye gaze has been incorporated into the multimodal behavior of embodied conversational agents. Recent work on human-robot interaction has explored eye gaze in incremental language processing, visual scene processing, and conversation engagement and grounding.

This special issue will report on state-of-the-art computational models, systems, and studies that concern eye gaze in intelligent and natural human-machine communication. The nonexhaustive list of topics below indicates the range of appropriate topics; in case of doubt, please contact the guest editors. Read more on Call: Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction (ACM TiiS special issue)…

Call for Papers

Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations

University of Huddersfield, UK, March 10th-11th 2011
1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010

Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation, sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, ecology

A two-day conversational* conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation.

In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and abstract clear and visual, others focus on the aesthetic quality of the experience. What many of the works have in common is being the outcome of collaboration across disciplines.

This event seeks not only to contribute to the debate around data visualisation but also to a better understanding of what makes interdisciplinary collaborations successful. Read more on Call: Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations…

HCI 2011 – Health, Wealth and Happiness

Call for Papers

The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

HCI 2011 will be held between the 4th of July and the 8^th July, 2011, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The HCI Educators conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011 and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British Computer Society.

This year we will be looking for papers to put in our alt.hci sessions. So if you think your work doesn’t usually make it into this conference then maybe this year is your year.

Accepted papers will be published by BCS in the annual conference proceedings, freely available online in BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) and will also be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates:

• Full Paper and Workshop submission: 21st January, 2011
• Conference: 4th July – 8th July, 2011

Conference Scope and Description

Human Computer Interaction is a key area of computing, This is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction in the UK. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for interacting with devices and services. HCI is now on its 25th conference and at this anniversary we ask you to reflect on our theme of Health, Wealth and Happiness. Technology is posed to play a growing part in our health and maintaining well being into older age; wealth manifests itself in many ways, many of which we do not always recognise – relationships, richness of life experience, creativity and innovation, knowledge and qualities of character. Lastly is there a relationship between happiness and technology use, will more gadgets increase our well being? And as ever contributions in any aspect of HCI are welcome. Read more on Call: HCI 2011 – Health, Wealth and Happiness…

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions: 24 January 2011

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTERFACES AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION 2011
Rome, Italy, 24- 26 July 2011
(http://www.ihci-conf.org/)

part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2011)
Rome, Italy, 20 – 26 July 2011
(http://www.mccsis.org)

Conference background and goals

The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2011 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology interaction. This conference aims to explore and discuss innovative studies of technology and its application in interfaces and welcomes research in progress, case studies, practical demonstrations and workshops in addition to the traditional submission categories. Read more on Call: IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2011…