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Web API for speech recognition and synthesis

2009-12-16T07:17:01Z

(resending to include the whatwg list, sorry for multiple postings)
Hi Olli,
Thank you for bringing this interesting thread to the Multimodal
Interaction Working Group's attention.
The working group is in fact very active. Although it is chartered as
W3C Member-only, we do have a public mailing list, www-multimodal@...,
available for public discussions.

In general, we would be very interested in hearing about the kinds of use
cases for speech recognition and TTS in a browser context that you would
like to handle. The Multimodal Architecture is our primary draft spec
that addresses using speech in web pages (although it also addresses
other modes of input, such as handwriting). A new Working Draft has just
been published and we would be very interested
in getting feedback on it. In my opinion, it's probably focused more on
distributed architectures than on the use cases you might be interested
in, but we would like our specs to be comprehensive enough to be able to
address both server-based and client-based speech processing.

We would also be interested in general discussions of questions about
multimodality.

Here are some pointers that may be useful.
MMI page: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
MMI Architecture spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/

best regards,

Debbie Dahl, MMI Working Group Chair

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olli Pettay [mailto:Olli.Pettay@...]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:14 PM
> To: Bjorn Bringert
> Cc: Olli@...; Dave Burke; João Eiras; whatwg; David
> Singleton; Gudmundur Hafsteinsson; westonruter@...;
> www-multimodal@...; Deborah Dahl
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] Web API for speech recognition and synthesis
>
> On 12/11/09 6:05 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> > Thanks for the discussion - cool to see more interest today also
> >
>

(http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024453.ht
ml)

> >
> > I've hacked up a proof-of-concept JavaScript API for speech
> > recognition and synthesis. It adds a navigator.speech object with
> > these functions:
> >
> > void listen(ListenCallback callback, ListenOptions options);
> > void speak(DOMString text, SpeakCallback callback,
> SpeakOptions options);
>
>
> So if I read the examples correctly you're not using grammars
> anywhere.
> I wonder how well does that work in real world cases. Of course if
> the speech recognizer can handle everything well without grammars, the
> result validation could be done in JS after the result is got from the
> recognizer. But I think having support for grammars simplifies coding
> and can make speech dialogs somewhat more manageable.
>
> W3C has already standardized things like
> http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/ and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/
> and the latter one works quite nicely with JS.
>
> Again, I think this kind of discussion should happen in W3C
> multimodal
> WG. Though, I'm not sure how actively or how openly that
> working group
> works atm.
>
> -Olli
>
>
> >
> > The implementation uses an NPAPI plugin for the Android browser that
> > wraps the existing Android speech APIs. The code is available at
> > http://code.google.com/p/speech-api-browser-plugin/
> >
> > There are some simple demo apps in
> >
> http://code.google.com/p/speech-api-browser-plugin/source/brow
> se/trunk/android-plugin/demos/
> > including:
> >
> > - English to Spanish speech-to-speech translation
> > - Google search by speaking a query
> > - The obligatory pizza ordering system
> > - A phone number dialer
> >
> > Comments appreciated!
> >
> > /Bjorn
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Olli
> Pettay<Olli.Pettay@...> wrote:
> >> Indeed the API should be something significantly simpler than X+V.
> >> Microsoft has (had?) support for SALT. That API is pretty
> simple and
> >> provides speech recognition and TTS.
> >> The API could be probably even simpler than SALT.
> >> IIRC, there was an extension for Firefox to support SALT
> (well, there was
> >> also an extension to support X+V).
> >>
> >> If the platform/OS provides ASR and TTS, adding a JS API
> for it should
> >> be pretty simple. X+V tries to handle some logic using
> VoiceXML FIA, but
> >> I think it would be more web-like to give pure JS API
> (similar to SALT).
> >> Integrating visual and voice input could be done in
> scripts. I'd assume
> >> there would be some script libraries to handle multimodal
> input integration
> >> - especially if there will be touch and gestures events
> too etc. (Classic
> >> multimodal map applications will become possible in web.)
> >>
> >> But this all is something which should be possibly
> designed in or with W3C
> >> multimodal working group. I know their current
> architecture is way more
> >> complex, but X+X, SALT and even Multimodal-CSS has been
> discussed in that
> >> working group.
> >>
> >>
> >> -Olli
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/3/09 2:50 AM, Dave Burke wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We're envisaging a simpler programmatic API that looks
> familiar to the
> >>> modern Web developer but one which avoids the legacy of
> dialog system
> >>> languages.
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, João Eiras<joaoe@...
> >>> <mailto:joaoe@...>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0100, Bjorn Bringert
> >>> <bringert@...<mailto:bringert@...>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We've been watching our colleagues build native
> apps that use
> >>> speech
> >>> recognition and speech synthesis, and would like
> to have JavaScript
> >>> APIs that let us do the same in web apps. We are
> thinking about
> >>> creating a lightweight and
> implementation-independent API that lets
> >>> web apps use speech services. Is anyone else
> interested in that?
> >>>
> >>> Bjorn Bringert, David Singleton, Gummi Hafsteinsson
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This exists already, but only Opera supports it,
> although there are
> >>> problems with the library we use for speech recognition.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/
> >>>
> >>>
> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/add-voice-interactivity-to-
> your-site/
> >>>
> >>> Would be nice to revive that specification and get
> vendor buy-in.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> João Eiras
> >>> Core Developer, Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features

2009-12-16T07:14:59Z

Hi www-multimodal,

I am pleased to announce that the Multimodal Interaction Working
Group has just published a new Working Group Note, Use Cases for
Possible Future EMMA Features,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-emma-usecases-20091215/.

Throughout the implementation report process and discussion
since EMMA 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation, a number of new
possible use cases for the EMMA language have emerged. These
include the use of EMMA to represent multimodal output, biometrics,
emotion, sensor data, multi-stage dialogs, and interactions with
multiple users. This document describes these use cases and
illustrates how the EMMA language could be extended to support them.
Our goal in publishing these use cases is to gather feedback on these
ideas and other possible changes for future versions of EMMA, and
we would very much welcome your comments. Please send your comments
to this list.

Here's the announcement.
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-8683

best regards,

Debbie Dahl, Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair
for the Multimodal Interaction Working Group

RE: [whatwg] Web API for speech recognition and synthesis

2009-12-14T13:24:10Z

Hi Olli,
Thank you for bringing this interesting thread to the Multimodal
Interaction Working Group's attention.
The working group is in fact very active. Although it is chartered as
W3C Member-only, we do have a public mailing list, www-multimodal@...,
available for public discussions.

In general, we would be very interested in hearing about the kinds of use
cases for speech recognition and TTS in a browser context that you would
like to handle. The Multimodal Architecture is our primary draft spec
that addresses using speech in web pages (although it also addresses
other modes of input, such as handwriting). A new Working Draft has just
been published and we would be very interested
in getting feedback on it. In my opinion, it's probably focused more on
distributed architectures than on the use cases you might be interested
in, but we would like our specs to be comprehensive enough to be able to
address both server-based and client-based speech processing.

We would also be interested in general discussions of questions about
multimodality.

Here are some pointers that may be useful.
MMI page: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
MMI Architecture spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/

best regards,

Debbie Dahl, MMI Working Group Chair

(http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024453.ht
ml)

Re: Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0

2009-12-14T12:04:57Z

Hi Marc,

Speaking of "far behind", I am currently processing my application for commission with the U.S. Navy and its Officer Candidate School in particular because, not to mention its opportunity in the fields of technology, service, and learning, it pays "well". You see, I have found that creative writing to date, for me, does not pay that well! That said, I wonder if you may be able to help me in my search for a position that offers growth, opportunity, and a shared interest in things important and worthwhile?

If needed, I could be secretary with your EmotionML group and, hindsight being 20/20, we could work to formulate what critical working group would arise say, nine years from now~;)

Sincerely yours,

Michael Norton

(216) 381-9565 (US)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Marc Schroeder <schroed@...> wrote:

Dear Michael Norton,

thanks for your encouragement! As usual fiction is ahead of reality, but in this particular case we are not *that* far behind :-)

The "romance" category may not be appropriate in all of our use cases, but I guess in some it might. I was more thinking of "frustration", "encouragement", "impatience" etc. in the context of human-computer interaction...

In any case, thanks for the heads up!

Best regards,
Marc Schröder, EmotionML Editor

Michael Norton schrieb:

Dear Team EmotionML,
Happy holidays! When I was 26, one of the last lines in my novel, "A Line in the Sand" (iUniverse, 2002), was "The absolute in markup languages would be the romantic one, for me: EmotionML."
It is both comforting and encouraging to know that I am not alone in my thoughts. I wish you the best of success in embarking upon your venture.
Sincerely,
Michael A. Norton
(216) 381-9565

--
"Dreams are likeable escalators. When operational, they always go up or down, and the steps among them are perceptibly infinite." --Linneus von Loope

--
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de
Editor W3C Draft EmotionML http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed@...
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
--
Official DFKI coordinates:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

--
"Dreams are likeable escalators. When operational, they always go up or down, and the steps among them are perceptibly infinite." --Linneus von Loope

Re: Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0

2009-12-14T11:15:24Z

Dear Michael Norton,

thanks for your encouragement! As usual fiction is ahead of reality, but
in this particular case we are not *that* far behind :-)

The "romance" category may not be appropriate in all of our use cases,
but I guess in some it might. I was more thinking of "frustration",
"encouragement", "impatience" etc. in the context of human-computer
interaction...

In any case, thanks for the heads up!

Best regards,
Marc Schröder, EmotionML Editor

Michael Norton schrieb:

> Dear Team EmotionML,
>
> Happy holidays!
>
> When I was 26, one of the last lines in my novel, "A Line in the Sand"
> (iUniverse, 2002), was "The absolute in markup languages would be the
> romantic one, for me: EmotionML."
>
> It is both comforting and encouraging to know that I am not alone in my
> thoughts. I wish you the best of success in embarking upon your venture.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael A. Norton
> (216) 381-9565
>
> --
> "Dreams are likeable escalators. When operational, they always go up or
> down, and the steps among them are perceptibly infinite." --Linneus von
> Loope

--
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de
Editor W3C Draft EmotionML http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed@...
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123
Saarbrücken, Germany
--
Official DFKI coordinates:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

Re: [whatwg] Web API for speech recognition and synthesis

2009-12-11T13:13:57Z

On 12/11/09 6:05 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> Thanks for the discussion - cool to see more interest today also
> (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024453.html)
>
> I've hacked up a proof-of-concept JavaScript API for speech
> recognition and synthesis. It adds a navigator.speech object with
> these functions:
>
> void listen(ListenCallback callback, ListenOptions options);
> void speak(DOMString text, SpeakCallback callback, SpeakOptions options);

So if I read the examples correctly you're not using grammars anywhere.
I wonder how well does that work in real world cases. Of course if
the speech recognizer can handle everything well without grammars, the
result validation could be done in JS after the result is got from the
recognizer. But I think having support for grammars simplifies coding
and can make speech dialogs somewhat more manageable.

W3C has already standardized things like
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/ and
http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/
and the latter one works quite nicely with JS.

Again, I think this kind of discussion should happen in W3C multimodal
WG. Though, I'm not sure how actively or how openly that working group
works atm.

-Olli

>
> The implementation uses an NPAPI plugin for the Android browser that
> wraps the existing Android speech APIs. The code is available at
> http://code.google.com/p/speech-api-browser-plugin/
>
> There are some simple demo apps in
> http://code.google.com/p/speech-api-browser-plugin/source/browse/trunk/android-plugin/demos/
> including:
>
> - English to Spanish speech-to-speech translation
> - Google search by speaking a query
> - The obligatory pizza ordering system
> - A phone number dialer
>
> Comments appreciated!
>
> /Bjorn
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Olli Pettay<Olli.Pettay@...> wrote:
>> Indeed the API should be something significantly simpler than X+V.
>> Microsoft has (had?) support for SALT. That API is pretty simple and
>> provides speech recognition and TTS.
>> The API could be probably even simpler than SALT.
>> IIRC, there was an extension for Firefox to support SALT (well, there was
>> also an extension to support X+V).
>>
>> If the platform/OS provides ASR and TTS, adding a JS API for it should
>> be pretty simple. X+V tries to handle some logic using VoiceXML FIA, but
>> I think it would be more web-like to give pure JS API (similar to SALT).
>> Integrating visual and voice input could be done in scripts. I'd assume
>> there would be some script libraries to handle multimodal input integration
>> - especially if there will be touch and gestures events too etc. (Classic
>> multimodal map applications will become possible in web.)
>>
>> But this all is something which should be possibly designed in or with W3C
>> multimodal working group. I know their current architecture is way more
>> complex, but X+X, SALT and even Multimodal-CSS has been discussed in that
>> working group.
>>
>>
>> -Olli
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/3/09 2:50 AM, Dave Burke wrote:
>>>
>>> We're envisaging a simpler programmatic API that looks familiar to the
>>> modern Web developer but one which avoids the legacy of dialog system
>>> languages.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, João Eiras<joaoe@...
>>> <mailto:joaoe@...>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0100, Bjorn Bringert
>>> <bringert@...<mailto:bringert@...>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We've been watching our colleagues build native apps that use
>>> speech
>>> recognition and speech synthesis, and would like to have JavaScript
>>> APIs that let us do the same in web apps. We are thinking about
>>> creating a lightweight and implementation-independent API that lets
>>> web apps use speech services. Is anyone else interested in that?
>>>
>>> Bjorn Bringert, David Singleton, Gummi Hafsteinsson
>>>
>>>
>>> This exists already, but only Opera supports it, although there are
>>> problems with the library we use for speech recognition.
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/
>>>
>>> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/add-voice-interactivity-to-your-site/
>>>
>>> Would be nice to revive that specification and get vendor buy-in.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> João Eiras
>>> Core Developer, Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0

2009-12-11T08:02:20Z

Dear Team EmotionML,

Happy holidays!

When I was 26, one of the last lines in my novel, "A Line in the Sand" (iUniverse, 2002), was "The absolute in markup languages would be the romantic one, for me: EmotionML."

It is both comforting and encouraging to know that I am not alone in my thoughts. I wish you the best of success in embarking upon your venture.

Sincerely,

Michael A. Norton

(216) 381-9565

--
"Dreams are likeable escalators. When operational, they always go up or down, and the steps among them are perceptibly infinite." --Linneus von Loope

[arch] sixth WD of MMI Architecture is published

2009-12-02T06:37:07Z

Hi www-multimodal,

The sixth Working Draft of "Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces"
has been published as follows.

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/

Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/

Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-mmi-arch-20081016/

The document as a whole has changed significantly and the group
welcomes review.

The main changes from the previous draft are (1) clarifying the
relationship to EMMA, (2) simplifying the architecture constituents,
(3) adding a description on HTTP transport of lifecycle events and (4)
adding an example of handwriting recognition modality component.

A diff-marked version is also available for comparison purposes at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mmi-arch-20091201/diff.html

Best regards,

Kazuyuki Ashimura
for the W3C Multimodal Interaction WG

--
Kazuyuki Ashimura / W3C Multimodal & Voice Activity Lead
mailto: ashimura@...
voice: +81.466.49.1170 / fax: +81.466.49.1171

question about EmotionML

2009-11-23T04:06:26Z

Hello Kazuyuki,

My name is Eyal Sela, I am a project manager at the Israeli Internet association (ISOC-IL) and the Israeli W3C office.

I'm writing an aritcle for the W3C israeli website about EmotionML, and I was wondering if you could help me with a question have:

Will EmotionML be used inline in HTML (like SVG or RDFa), or as a sperted document (like RDF)?

Best regards,

Eyal Sela | Project Manager, Technology Committee & the Israeli W3C office| Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) | Tel: +972-3-9700910 | www.isoc.org.il

CFP: Czech Republic-Prague- NDT2010

2009-11-16T08:08:44Z

The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital
Technologies' (NDT2010)
Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010
==========================================================================

Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: July. 7-9, 2010.
=========================================================================
Topics:

Information and Data Management
Data and Network Mining
Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling
XML-Based Languages
Security and Access Control
Trust Models for Social Networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New Architectures for Web-Based Social Networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
Mobile Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Social Networks
Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
Social Search
Social Networking Inspired Collaborative Computing
Information Propagation on Social Networks
Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
Measurement Studies of Actual Social Networks
Simulation Models for Social Networks
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Green Computing

=========================================================================
IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date: April 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
Camera Ready submission: May 10, 2010
Registration: May 15, 2010
Conference date: July 7-9, 2010

=========================================================================
SUBMISSION:
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CfP | EuroITV2010 | web.sharing.tv.content | interactive content & arts | HCI | systems & technology | media studies | media management

2009-11-05T10:38:09Z

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8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video
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June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/

Call for Papers, Targeted Workshops, Workshops, Tutorials, and Industrial Exhibitions

New in EuroITV:
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- video and TV in the age of Web 3.0.
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. Storytelling
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. Social media in storytelling
. Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social media
. Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity
. Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator
. Towards a new form language for video & television
. Social media utilizing online video as an art form
. Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual worlds
. Video and TV as alternate reality games

Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction
. User-centered design
. Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services
. Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media technologies
. Studies on iTV and media usage
. Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV
. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful iTV systems and deployments in terms of usability and user experience
. Accessibility of iTV services
. Cross-over media concepts and implementations
. Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, privacy, security).

Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies
. Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security
. Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modeling
. Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption
. Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning
. Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things applications
. Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies
. New advertising and revenue models for television
. User creativity on and via television: Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content
. Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
. Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children
. Digital divide and e-inclusion issues
. Methods for digital television research and design
. From mass media to mass self-communication
. Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital convergence and experience economy

Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies
. Mobile TV
. Ambient intelligence
. Social TV
. Digital content production
. HDTV and digital cinema
. Entertainment computing
. Interactive services (games, betting, game shows)
. Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems
. Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
. Web 2.0
. Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV)
. Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
. Multimedia communication services
. Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search)
. Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)

Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

. Storytelling, role playing, and language for video & TV
. Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world
. Digital gaming, ambient media, social media, and locative media
. Artistic and aesthetic uses of video & TV technology
. Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV
. Ambient intelligence, ambient media environnements
. Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience
. Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema
. Asset management, metadata and content enrichment
. Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows
. Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems
. Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies
. New advertising and revenue models for television
. Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
. Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning
. Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated content
. Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
. Content management, digital rights management
. Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising
. Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation
. Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
. Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures (ubiquitous and mobile)
. Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)
. Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
. Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces
. Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
. Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and children
. Digital divide and e-inclusion issues
. Methods for digital television research and design

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for special issues in a journals or books.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Conference Chairs
. Artur Lugmayr, EMMi Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
. Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
. Pertti Naranen, Tampere Univ. of Applied Sciences (TAMK), FINLAND

Program Chairs
. Celia Quico, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
. Gunnar Harboe, Motorola, U.S.A

Publicity Chairs
. Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Centre Tampere, FINLAN

EuroITV Competition Grand Challange
o Susanne Sperring, MediaCity, FINLAND
o Robert Strezbowski, Beuth Hochschlue fuer Technik Berlin, GERMANY
o Milena Szafir, BRAZIL

Sponsor Chair
. Pauliina Tuomi, TUT, FINLAND

Tutorials Chair
. Marianna Obrist, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
. David Geerts, CUO, IBBT / K.U. Leuven, BELGIUM

Doctoral Consortium Chair
. Hendrik Knoche, University College London, UK
. Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK

Industrial Exhibition and Demonstration Chairs
. Jussi Pekka Koskiranta, YLE, FINLAND
. Gene Chipman, StreamSage, U.S.A.
. Timo Argillander, Digital Media Finland Oy, FINLAND

Short Papers & Posters Chairs
. Jens Jensen, Aalborg University, DENMARK
. Lyn Pemberton, Brighton University, UK

Workshop Chairs
. Pablo Cesar, CWI, THE NETHERLANDS
. Jari Multisilta, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), Pori, FINLAND

Track chairs
HCI
. Regina Bernhaupt, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of Salzburg (A)
. Oliver Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute, FOKUS, GERMANY

Media Studies
. Jo Pierson, IBBT-SMIT, VUB (B)
. Jaakko Suominen, University of Turku, FINLAND

Technology
. Chengyan Peng, VTT, FINLAND
. Siegfried Fößel, Fraunhofer Institute IIS, GERMANY

Content & Art
. Tapio Takala, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
. Teijo Pellinen, Univ. of Lapland, FINLAND
. Veijo Hietala, FINLAND

CONTACT
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For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://www.euroitv2010.org/

Send any inquiry about the conference to:
info@...

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Host:
EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and Logistics / TUT Tampere (http://www.tut.fi/emmi).

br,

Artur
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Prof. Dr. Artur Lugmayr
EMMi Lab. - Entertainment and Media Management Lab. http://www.tut.fi/emmi
Department of Business Information Management and Logistics, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT)
P.O. Box 541, Korkeakoulunkatu 8, FI-33101 Tampere, FINLAND
www.cs.tut.fi/~lartur | lartur@... | Skype: lartur | Tel: +358 40 849 0773 | Fax: +358 3 3115 4680

Comments on EmotionML Working Draft 29 October 2009

2009-10-31T06:34:32Z

Hello,

Reading through the working draft I noticed some parallels to other work and would like to suggest alignment.

First of all seing that you define a metadata format it would seem natural to do things in RDF but I can see how a strict XML format is more suitable for the use-cases and for combining this format with other formats as pointed out in section 5.2. And I'm sure you considered RDF anyway since you reference it at one point. :-)
Nonetheless it seems that you could still use ontology formats (OWL, SKOS) and URIs for the definition and use of vocabularies, e.g. for the <category> element.

Regarding the <metadata> element: The definition says "This element can be used to annotate arbitrary metadata." - I guess this should be something along the lines of "to annotate something *with* arbitrary metadata"?
And yes, for the content using RDF would make a lot of sense as you say, especially Dublin Core properties would work well here. But then maybe you should define what the "scope" or the "origin resource" is that those properties get attached to when you want to interpret this as RDF. If the <metadata> is a child of <emotionml> then it should probably be the URI of the document. But what about <metadata> within <emotion>? Should <emotion>s have URIs? Or should such metadata be interpreted as being attached to RDF "blank nodes" (which get defined through the attributes of the <emotion> element)?
If you would restrict the contents of <metadata> a bit more you could even define a simple conversion to RDF via GRDDL [1].
The elements within <metadata> in section 5.1.1 are not namespace-scoped btw. so I wonder if that's maybe a bit confusing for the reader - they're not part of EmotionML, right?

Looking at the <link> element I think this should follow the same style as <link> elements in other formats such as HTML and Atom: @uri would be @href and @role would be @rel. Otherwise it might confuse users who are used to those other formats.
Maybe since you define a <link> element you could allow @xml:base as well? (This would then also influence the "origin resource" of <metadata>.)

And finally, seeing how reference time in <emotion> and <link> I wonder if using the work of the Media Fragments WG [2] would be suitable?

Thanks,
Simon

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/

EmotionML 1.0: First Public Working Draft published

2009-10-30T01:09:47Z

The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) has published a
"First Public Working Draft" specification of the
"Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0":

http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

Over the next months, this specification is expected to mature and
eventually to become a "web standard" for representing emotions and
related states in technological systems.

The community at large is invited to review the draft and to provide
feedback and comments to the following public mailing list:
www-multimodal@... (archives and subscription:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-multimodal/)

Abstract:

As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal,
technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including
emotions. The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0
aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific
well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language
suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of
data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user
behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior.

--
Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH
Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu
Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net
Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed@...
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123
Saarbrücken, Germany
--
Official DFKI coordinates:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

CFP: London - NDT 2010

2009-10-15T06:14:45Z

The proposed conference on the above them will be be held at London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom from August 4 to August 6, 2010 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.

Currently a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies.

Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actual social networks
Simulation models for social networks
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Green Computing

LOCATION

NDT 2010 will be organized by London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, in cooperation with the Digital Information Research Foundation (DIRF) located in India. All the activities of the conference will take place in London, UK.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Date:	~~Feb 20, 2010~~, April 1
Notification of Acceptance	April 15, 2010
Camera Ready	May 1, 2010
Registration	May 1, 2010
Conference Dates:	August 4-6, 2010

COMMITTEES

General Chairs
Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
Weimin He, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA.

Program Chairs
Veli Hakkoymaz, Fatih University, Turkey.
Renata Wachowiak-Smolikova, Nipissing University, Canada.

Program co-Chairs
Noraziah Ahmad,University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia.
Yoshiro Imai, Kagwa University, Japan.

Proceedings Chair
Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Saudi Arabia

Publicity Chair
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Would you like to organize a workshop or a special session or a tutorial?

If you are interested in organizing any workshop or special session, please send us email to ndt@dirf.org with the title of the session

Would you like to be a reviewer?

All the reviewing are online. Please visit http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/index.asp then select link be a reviewer. More details are listed there.

SUBMISSION

Submission instructions are listed at
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/submission.asp

Pervasive 2010 Final Reminder: 16 October (Friday) is the deadline for all paper submissions

2009-10-10T10:11:20Z

Pervasive 2010, the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive
Computing, is accepting submissions for Full papers and Notes
until Friday, 16 October 2009, 23:59 (UTC/GMT). There will be no
deadline extensions.

We welcome high quality papers that describe original and
unpublished research advancing the state of the art in mobile and
pervasive computing. For more information, please consult the Call
for Papers:

http://www.pervasive2010.org/calls.html

--
Vili Lehdonvirta, Publicity Co-Chair, Pervasive 2010

[CFP] VRST 2009 anxiously awaits your registration!

2009-10-01T19:30:48Z

============================
Call for Participation to VRST 2009
============================

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
VRST 2009
-- The 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

November 18 - 20, 2009, MIELPARQUE Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Location:
MIELPARQUE Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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AIMS AND HISTORY
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We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality
Software and Technology (VRST) 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an
international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among
researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality software and
technology. This year, VRST 2009 is co-sponsored by ACM and the
Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ). VRST 2009 will provide an
opportunity for VR researchers to interact, share new results, show
live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for
the field.

This year, VRST received 99 submissions (61 full papers and 38 short
papers) from labs from five continents. The international program
committee was made up of 45 esteemed virtual reality researchers. The
program committee accepted 17 full papers, and 22 short papers (an
acceptance rate of 27.9% for full papers, 23.7% for short papers and
39.4% overall). The program also includes 25 posters and demonstrations.
The careful consideration has resulted in a conference program, which is
one that we believe attendees and the virtual reality community will be
both proud of and find significant value in its contents.

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IMPORTANT DATES
------------------
ADVANCE REGISTRATION is now available till October 18!!!
http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009/

To assist the smooth running of the Symposium and avoid long delays at
the on-site registration desk, participants are strongly advised to register
for the symposium in advance.
* The fees will automatically change at 0:00 of October 19, 2009 (Japan
standard time).

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CONFERENCE VENUE
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VRST 2009 will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is a world-renowned city
for being the ancient capital of Japan with numerous cultural heritages.
Located just two-minute walk distance from JR Kyoto station, the
conference venue, Mielparque Kyoto, is convenient for business trips
and tourism.

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KEYNOTES
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* Light Control and 3D Video: Building Blocks for Telepresence of
the Future
Markus Gross (ETH Zurich, Disney Research Zurich)

* Dive into the Movie
-An instant casting and immersive experience in the story
Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University)

* A Taxonomy of (Real and Virtual World) Display and Control Interactions
Paul Milgram (University of Toronto)

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VRST BANQUET:
Feel the Japanese traditional culture with "SAKE" at Fushimi area
------------------
Fushimi is one of the most famous and traditional places brewing "SAKE"
(Japanese rice wine) in Japan. Moreover, Fushimi has been designated as
one of “Kyoto's top 100 scenic areas”.
The VRST Banquet consists of two parts. The former part is a tour to the
Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum. Here, you can feel the atmosphere of
brewing "SAKE".
The latter part is dinner with Japanese traditional style served with several
small bowls at Japanese traditional restaurant. Of course, you can enjoy very
nice SAKE.
Please join and feel the Japanese traditional culture (scene, food,
drink "SAKE").
This chance offers you the Japanese unforgettable memories!

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For more information, please visit:
http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009/

We are looking forward seeing you soon at Kyoto!!

*** For general information about the conference please contact:
vrst2009_inquiry@...

---
Yuichi ITOH, Ph.D. <itoh@...>
Grad. School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University

CFP: London: :NDT 2010

2009-09-29T05:25:04Z

Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT2010)
London, United Kingdom, August 4-6, 2010
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010
==========================================================================

Location: London Metropolitan University, UK

Date: Aug. 4-6, 2010.

Topics:

Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actual social networks
Simulation models for social networks

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date: February 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 1 , 2010
Camera Ready submission April: 1, 2010
Registration April: 1, 2010
Conference date: August 4-6, 2010

SUBMISSION:
Submission instructions are listed at http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010

CFP: London: :NDT 2010

2009-09-29T05:23:19Z

FW: Last Call for Papers: SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

2009-09-28T10:05:41Z

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Call for Papers

SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

Salzburg, 18th-21st November 2009 in conjunction with AmI-09

!!! SUBMISSION OF 2-4 PAGE POSITION PAPERS UNTIL THE 19th OCTOBER 2009 !!!

More information on: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/same2009/ and
http://www.ami-09.org/

============================================================================
===============

* Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the
paper format of AmI-09:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
* Please send your submissions via email to lartur@...
* More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient
Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008:
http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html
* Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the
workshop
* Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA):
www.ambientmediaassociation.org and
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/3

Description of the Workshop
The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and
music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web,
the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and
pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of
distributed interlinked media what is the message ambient media will tell
us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to
us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded
throughout the natural environment of the consumer in his home, in his
car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services
are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based
entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution
of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change
of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as
single entities to information a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast.
However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the
single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices,
personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the
user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media
experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as
the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline
this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the
challenges:
? how to select, compose, and generate ambient content?
? how to present ambient content?
? how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences?
? what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and
technology?
? how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better
supported and extended?
? and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and
art?

The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of
creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction,
and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic
ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at
multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop
the "ambient media form" for entertainment services, such as:
* case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)
* oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas
* artistic installations and running system prototypes
* user-experience studies and evaluations
* technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions

Topics

The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and
shall act as examples:
* Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for
adding intelligence to daily objects
* Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation
algorithms and techniques
* Context awareness and collection and context aware
composition/selection of ambient content
* Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and
data management
* Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and
co-creation of content and products
* Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological
platforms
* Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming
ambient media
* Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic
interpretation
* Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure
content in specific contexts
* Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive
advertising
* Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user
interfaces, and universal access
* Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user
studies, and interface design
* Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and " x" -commerce

The workshop aims at answering the following questions:
* What is "content" and how can it be presented in the age of
"ubiquitous" and "pervasive" ?
* How to select, compose and generate ambient content?
* How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application
scenarios (e.g. e-learning)?
* What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups
in the ambient context?
* How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported?
* Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models
exist?
* How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined?
* How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended
by ambient media?

Important Dates
* position paper submission: 19th October, 2009
* notification of acceptance: 22nd October, 2009
* final papers due: 27th October, 2009
* workshop day : 21st November , 2009
* special issue articles due: December 14th , 2009

Target Audience

The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of
ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include
pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous
computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile
industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous
experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high
scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the
development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop
organization. Participants shall participate rather than passively
contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic
and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for
ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop
tremendously.

We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media
technology, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful
and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media
studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are
affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially
visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly
welcome.

Workshop Chairs
* Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia
Inc., FINLAND
* Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY
* Bjorn Stockleben, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), GERMANY
* Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND
* Kari Laurila, NOKIA, FINLAND

Pervasive 2010 submission is open (deadline 16 October 2009)

2009-09-17T03:33:37Z

Pervasive 2010, the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive
Computing, is now accepting submissions for Full papers and Notes
at:

http://www.pervasive2010.org/submission.html

The deadline for all paper submissions is 16 October 2009, 23:59
(UTC/GMT). Please consult the Call for Papers below for submission
guidelines.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pervasive 2010, the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive
Computing, will be held 17-20 May 2010 in Helsinki, Finland,
www.pervasive2010.org

This annual conference provides a premier forum for researchers to
present their latest results in all areas related to architecture,
design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive
computing as it integrates into our lives.

Pervasive 2010 builds on the success of previous conferences in this
series held in Zurich (August 2002), in Linz/Vienna (April 2004), in
Munich (May 2005), in Dublin (May 2006), Toronto (May 2007), Sydney (May
2008) and Nara (May 2009). Pervasive 2010 will include a highly
selective single-track program for technical papers.

We welcome high quality papers, either Full Papers (max 18 pages) or
Notes (max 8 pages), that describe original and unpublished research
advancing the state of the art in mobile and pervasive computing,
including but not limited to the following topics:

* Technologies and devices for pervasive computing
* Software aspects including middleware and operating systems for
pervasive computing
* Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for
designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing systems
* Applications of pervasive computing technologies
* Interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive
computing devices, applications or environments
* Evaluations and evaluation methods for assessing the impact of
pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
* Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of
pervasive computing

Both Full Papers and Notes submissions should provide important and ripe
contributions in the field. Submissions can be accompanied by a video
and/or demo in the programme.

Contributions should be relevant and grounded within Pervasive computing
and authors should write assuming a broad interdisciplinary Pervasive
computing audience.

Note that papers should not have been previously published or be
concurrently under submission for publication for any other conference,
journal, workshop or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI
number.

Author guidelines

All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Pervasive 2010
program committee and additional expert reviewers drawn from relevant
research communities.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance
of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and
presentation. If a submitted paper may appear to overlap with previously
published or simultaneously reviewed work, the authors should email
the Program Co-Chairs directly to explain how the new work represents
a unique and substantial new contribution.

Full Papers should include a thorough survey of related work positioning
the contribution, a comprehensive, detailed and comprehensible
explanation of a device, system, study, theory or method (sufficient for
replicability), and compelling validation of the work. Full Papers can
be up to 18 pages in the LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Notes should be succinct but complete contributions. Notes will be
reviewed in the same process with Full Papers, and will appear in the
proceedings and the conference programme. Notes can be up to 8 pages in
the LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Successful submissions typically break new ground and provide
substantial support for results and conclusions. The different length
of Full Papers (18 pages) and Notes (8 pages) allows authors to choose
an appropriate submission category based on the amount of contribution
or scope of the work. Consider carefully whether a Full Paper or Note
submission is more appropriate, as there will be no mechanism for
re-considering a submitted Full Paper as a Note.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The submission
process will be described on the Submission Page:
http://www.pervasive2010.org/submission.html

Paper submissions must be anonymised to facilitate blind review. Authors
are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimise
oblique and overt references and citations that may reveal the identity
of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's
previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a
neutral way.

Critical Dates

16 October 2009, 23:59 (UTC/GMT) Full Papers and Notes due
18 December 2009 Notifications
10 February 2010 Camera Ready due
17-20 May 2010 Conference

Antonio Krüger & Mirjana Spasojevic
Pervasive 2010 Programme Co-chairs
http://www.pervasive2010.org

--
Vili Lehdonvirta, Publicity Co-Chair, Pervasive 2010

Pervasive 2010: Second Phase Call for Workshop Proposals, deadline October 16

2009-09-10T02:01:09Z

Second Phase Call for Workshop Proposals
Pervasive 2010

The Eighth International Conference
on Pervasive Computing
Helsinki, Finland
May 17-20, 2010
http://www.pervasive2010.org/workshops.html

+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Pervasive 2010, the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive
Computing, will be held May 17-20, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. This
annual conference is one of the premier forums for researchers to
present their latest results in all areas related to architecture,
design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive
computing. The full-day workshop program will be held prior to the
main technical programme of the conference on Monday, May 17, 2010. We
have taken a much longer lead time for the workshop program
development for 2010 with invited workshops and a two-phase open call.

---------------------------------
Call Two for Workshops Proposals
---------------------------------

The Pervasive 2010 Workshop Co-Chairs invite proposals for the
workshop program of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive
Computing. The accepted workshops from this call will be included in
the workshop program alongside the current set of 7 workshops. These
workshops include three workshops accepted from the first phase call
and four invited workshops. This second and final call for workshops
proposals is your opportunity to propose a workshop alongside these
leading workshops and the premier research program in the main
conference. For details of the accepted workshops, please see: http://www.pervasive2010.org/workshops.html

Workshops provide a forum for discussing areas of special interest
within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and
practitioners. Workshops afford participants the opportunity to
examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the
free exchange of perspectives. For details on the main conference,
please see: http://www.pervasive2010.org/

Important Workshop Dates:
-------------------------

- October 16, 2009: 2nd Phase Workshop proposals deadline (23:59 UTC)
- November 16, 2009: Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop
proposals
- November 30, 2009: Workshop calls posted online by the Co-Chairs
- February 1, 2010: Workshop position papers deadline
- March 1-8, 2010: Notification of acceptance/rejection of position
papers

Workshop Organization:
----------------------

Pervasive workshops are dynamic and intimate forums in which to
explore and discuss topics in depth. We therefore encourage having an
international team of workshop organizers from different institutions
and representing a variety of perspectives. We aim for a balanced
workshop program offering a diverse set of themes. Due to the unique
opportunity for discussion this forum offers, we encourage workshop
plans that emphasize interactive components, group activities, and
discussion over those that focus on individual talks.

Organizers should be active themselves in the field in which they
propose a workshop. All listed organizers are expected to attend the
workshops they are organizing; i.e., do not include a potential
organizer who may not be present at the workshop. Any change to the
workshop organization team must be submitted in writing by January 22,
2010. No changes to the workshop organization team can be made after
this date to ensure that potential participants submitting position
papers to workshops are aware of the final organization team.

Please feel free to discuss ideas for a workshop proposal via email
with the workshop chairs prior to submission.

Proposal Submission Process:
----------------------------

Please email your proposal to the Workshop Co-Chairs, Aaron Quigley
and Petteri Nurmi (pervasive2010-workshops-list@...)

Pre-Proposal Submission Inquiries:
Please feel free to contact the Workshop Co-Chairs if you would like
to discuss a workshop proposal (email: pervasive2010-workshops-list@...
).

We solicit workshops in all areas related to Pervasive Computing. In
particular, we would like to encourage workshops focused on new and
emerging research directions, novel and highly innovative themes, real-
world topics, system or interaction topics and interdisciplinary themes.

Proposal Content:
-----------------

1. A cover page including:
- Workshop title
- Name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address for each
organizer
- Identification of the primary contact person(s)

2. Background and Motivation: What is the overall topic of the
workshop? Why is this topic of particular interest at this time? If
the workshop has been organized in the past at Pervasive or at other
conferences, please give details of previous instances (venue, URL)
and describe why it should be held again and how it will extend and
build upon previous ones.

3. Objectives: What are the objectives that the workshop aims to
achieve? Objectives may include but are not limited to (a) targeting a
predefined set of focus questions, (b) presenting alternate views on a
particular issue that is of concern to the Pervasive Computing
community and attempting to resolve the issue, (c) identifying
priorities for new directions of research, and/or (d) initiating the
appropriate collaborations and building community around a theme of
interest. If you have a plan to produce a book or a journal special
issue as a result of your workshop, please indicate these plans.

4. Format: Give a description of the proposed workshop format,
including the target number of participants, planned activities (such
as introductions, invited talks, breakout group activities, demos,
general discussion), as well as how these activities address the
workshop objectives. Preference will be given to proposals for
activities designed to fuel discussion and interaction among
participants; workshops consisting solely of paper presentations are
discouraged. Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times.
Design your schedule for a length of 6 hours (full-day workshop) with
a lunch break and two coffee breaks.

5. Soliciting Submissions: Indicate how you plan to attract
submissions and/or participants. Tactics may include creating a
workshop web page, circulating a call to relevant mailing lists, and
publicizing your workshop at other relevant venues.

6. Selecting Participants: Indicate how you plan to select
participants and contributions to the workshop. Describe the relevant
criteria and/or review process that will be used to select position
papers. Indicate if you are planning to have a program committee to
help with the organization/review process or whether reviewing and
selection will be conducted solely by the organizers.

7. Organizers: Give short descriptions of each of the organizers'
background and interests related to pervasive computing and the
specific workshop topic.

Workshop Selection:
-------------------

Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed by the Co-Chairs and a
committee of experts based on the criteria described above. We aim to
select a diverse set of workshops and avoid having multiple workshops
on overlapping themes. Organizers of selected workshops will be asked
to produce a Call for Position Papers to describe the workshop to
potential participants and to solicit submissions.

Workshop Co-Chairs:
-------------------

Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland & HITLab Australia
Petteri Nurmi, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

Email: pervasive2010-workshops-list@...

--
Vili Lehdonvirta, Publicity Co-Chair, Pervasive 2010

FW: Deadline extention till 21st of August: 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

2009-08-11T14:06:30Z

Dear colleagues and friends,

we extended the deadline for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award Competition
to 21st of August 2009! Still a chance for your contribution! To participate
is easy: we just need a video of your ubiquitous service...

we reward the best ubicom applications during the MindTrek 2009 conference
taking place in October in Finland/Tampere. The award sum is 7.000 Euros plus
free travel for the winners. Please find more information below.

feel free to forward this call to your colleagues and friends as well:

================================================================================================
Call to participate in the

3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
- Competition deadline EXTENDED: August 21st 2009
- award sum 7.000 Euros for the best ubiquitous applications, products, services, and ideas
- just a video of your ubiquitous service needed to participate

September 30th – October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia

find previous year's contributions and email list click here:
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/

================================================================================================

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

* How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
* What are intelligent media environments like?
* What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:

* Pervasive and ubiquitous games
* Ambient installations
* Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
* Business models
* Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
* Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
* Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
* Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
* Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
* Ambient television
* etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is 7 000€.
The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.
Competition deadline is August 7th
How to participate?
Please check out the website http://mindtrek.org/ubimedia for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards

1. Organizers

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is a category of the 2009 MindTrek competition. The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU)/Tampere University of Technology, the TAMK University of Applied Sciences, and Nokia. The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.

2. Products qualifying for participation

All Ubimedia products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.

An example of a suitable competition entry is a finished product, product pilot or demo. No drafts or mere ideas without relevant documentation will be accepted.

The competition rules do not place limitations on the technology used in the products.

The jury has the right to reject the participation of an entry if it does not fulfil the participation criteria. All jury decisions are final.

3. Entry Submissions

For completing a successful submission, the following information is required from your side:
* filled application form;
* video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, also longer will be accepted);
* documentation of the concept;

A demonstration, production, pilot, or demo is eligible to be submitted to the competition. Each entry should be in form of a video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, however also longer videos will be accepted). The video should clearly indicate how the demonstration, production pilot, or demonstration works and relates to ubiquitous media.

In addition to the video, a short English-language based description of the concept should be attached to the competition entry in form of e.g. sketches, images, power points, word documents, or implementations. The description should present the key characteristics and benefits of the product or service in a concise and marketing-oriented manner. In addition, also other materials supporting the jury in their decision (e.g. sketches, images, power points, word documents, implementations) can be attached to the competition entry.

However, the jury decision will primarily be based on the video submissions, and additional materials will be used in case of further questions. We welcome also links to project homepages, but the jury decision can only base the decision on submitted materials.

4. Participation

Registration for the competition ends on 7th August 2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT).

If the competition entry is delivered to MindTrek via mail, it must arrive at the MindTrek Association’s office in three (3) copies no later than 7.8.2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT). If the competition entry is implemented on the internet, its web address must be submitted to MindTrek when registering within the deadline. Late entries will not be accepted.

In addition to submitting the competition entry, participation requires registration using the registration form at the MindTrek website.

All submissions must be in English.

Originals sent to the competition will not be returned, so you should keep a copy for your own use. Post and packaging costs are the responsibility of the entrant.

5. Award

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is EUR 7,000. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.
6. Immaterial property rights

The immaterial property rights related to the competition works remain the property of the competitors. The entrants are responsible for ensuring that they have full copyrights to their competition entries and the right to use the works and their elements when participating in the competition.

The material submitted to the award programme remains the property of the author and may not be modified, changed in any way or used in whole or in part for the production of any other work.
7. Evaluation of the entries and the jury

The participating works will be evaluated in the following areas:

* Innovativeness
* Commercial potential
* Entertainment value and/or usefulness and/or artistic merit and creative implementation
* The usability of interactive and context-aware functions and functions utilizing ubiquitous computing in some other manner
* Feasibility (in terms of technology and production)
* Visual implementation and technical functionality

Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing and MindTrek will jointly assemble the jury for this competition category. The jury will comprise at least one member from Nokia, one member from MindTrek and one member from Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and have a minimum of four members in all. In addition to the actual jury, MindTrek’s preliminary jury will take part in the evaluation if required, by carrying out a preliminary elimination.

8. Reference rights

MindTrek has the right to use the competition entries and a mention of the entrants as references in its marketing communications.

MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing have the right to disseminate information about the competition arrangements, competition entries, the awarding of the winners and other details related to the competition in their marketing and advertising, e.g. on the web and in brochures and newsletters.

The submitted works may be used by MindTrek without any restrictions or written permission in all presentations, TV broadcasting, CD/DVD productions, CD/DVD compilations and advertisements (internet, CD-ROM, TV, print).

MindTrek has the unlimited right to use the submitted material for distribution on DVDs and other media, especially the right to distribute the video material to labels and broadcasting companies.
9. Announcement of the results and presentation of the awards

The results of the competition category will be announced and the awards presented at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at Hotel Rosendahl on 1.10.2009 at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. Later there will be the Awards Party to honor the winners of the competitions.

Award nominees will be notified in advance. The presence of the nominees at the MindTrek event in October is strongly recommended.

All nominees are invited to give a half day workshop around the ideas of their nominated project with the students and tutors at Demola, www.demola.fi
10. Compensation of the finalists’ travel and other expenses

MindTrek will pay travel and accommodation costs up to the sum of EUR 800 per team for a maximum of three invited finalists/teams flying from abroad in economy class. Any Finnish entrants among the finalists will not receive compensation for their travel costs. However, MindTrek will pay for one conference ticket (includes entrance to the MindTrek Awards Party) and one entrance ticket to the MindTrek Awards Party for all finalist teams. MindTrek will not pay compensation for any other possible costs incurred by the entrants due to their participation in the competition.

Further Information
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Or in urgent matters the competition chairs:
Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr (AT) tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558
Cai Melakoski, cai.melakoski (AT) tamk.fi, Tel.: +358 50 555 6581
Kirsi Lindfors, kirsi.lindfors (AT) hermia.fi, Tel.: +358 40 820 4608

Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Jury 2009

Head Of Jury:
• Bjoern Stockleben, RBB , DE

Competition Chairs:
• Artur Lugmayr, NAMU group, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FI
• Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FI
• Kirsi Lindfors, Hermia, FI

Jury Members (to be completed):
• Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia, FI
• Jonas Forth, Abo Academy, FI
• Glen Gebhard, LMU, US
• Michael Hausenblas, Johanneum Research, AT
• Andreas Holzinger, MBCS Head Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz (MUG), AT
• Juha Kaario, Nokia, FI
• Mirette Kangas, YLE New Media, FI
• Katri Lietsala Gemilo OY, FI
• Timo Ojala, Universit of Oulu, FI
• Daniel Salber, mackey.nl, NL
• Susanne Sperring, Abo Academy, FI
• Joelle Stemp, Yu Centrik, CA
• Riku Suomela, Nokia, FI
• Teija Vainio, TUT, FI
• Robert Wierzbicki, wierzbicki.org, DE
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, SG
• Demola students

About the MindTrek Conference
Conference Venue
MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, in Tampere, Finland. The organizer of the conference has booked quota for the conference delegates from this hotel. Please, look for more information on accommodation and registration later from our website. Please note that the accommodation is not included in the participation fee. There is also other accommodation available in Tampere, ranging from modern first-class hotels to smaller traditional hotels and dormitories. If you select one of these options, you should make the reservations by yourself with that specific hotel.
MindTrek Conference in General
Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen (AT) mindtrek.org
www.mindtrek.org
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2009 MindTrek.org/ubimedia

Call for Competition Entries - deadline approaching: 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

2009-07-21T14:12:00Z

================================================================================================
Call to participate in the

3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

September 30th – October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia

For previous years' entries, newslist subscription, and our facebook group - check out:
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum

Competition deadline: August 7th
Award Sum: 7.000 Euros
================================================================================================

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas
and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

* How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
* What are intelligent media environments like?
* What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:

* Pervasive and ubiquitous games
* Ambient installations
* Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
* Business models
* Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
* Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
* Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
* Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
* Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
* Ambient television
* etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is 7 000€.
The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not
awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service
concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2008
are eligible to take part in the competition.

Competition deadline is August 7th

How to participate?

Please check out the website http://mindtrek.org/ubimedia for entry forms and actual information,
and http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum for previous years' entries, newsletter, and our facebook
group.

In case of questions, please contact: ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org

Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Organizers

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is a category of the 2009 MindTrek competition.
The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU)/Tampere University of Technology,
the TAMK University of Applied Sciences, and Nokia. The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.

2. Products qualifying for participation

All Ubimedia products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during
the previous year after 1st January 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.

An example of a suitable competition entry is a finished product, product pilot or demo.
No drafts or mere ideas without relevant documentation will be accepted.

The competition rules do not place limitations on the technology used in the products.

The jury has the right to reject the participation of an entry if it does not fulfil
the participation criteria. All jury decisions are final.

3. Entry Submissions

For completing a successful submission, the following information is required from your side:
* filled application form;
* video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, also longer will be accepted);
* documentation of the concept;

A demonstration, production, pilot, or demo is eligible to be submitted to the competition.
Each entry should be in form of a video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, however also longer videos will be accepted). The video should clearly indicate
how the demonstration, production pilot, or demonstration works and relates to ubiquitous media.

In addition to the video, a short English-language based description of the concept should
be attached to the competition entry in form of e.g. sketches, images, power points, word documents, or implementations. The description should present the key
characteristics and benefits of the product or service in a concise and marketing-oriented manner. In addition, also other materials supporting the jury in their decision (e.g. sketches,
images, power points, word documents, implementations) can be attached to the competition entry.

However, the jury decision will primarily be based on the video submissions, and additional
materials will be used in case of further questions. We welcome also links to project homepages, but the jury decision can only base the decision on submitted materials.

4. Participation

Registration for the competition ends on 7th August 2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT).

If the competition entry is delivered to MindTrek via mail, it must arrive at the MindTrek
Association’s office in three (3) copies no later than 7.8.2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT). If the competition entry is implemented on the internet, its web address must be submitted to
MindTrek when registering within the deadline. Late entries will not be accepted.

In addition to submitting the competition entry, participation requires registration using the
registration form at the MindTrek website.

All submissions must be in English.

Originals sent to the competition will not be returned, so you should keep a copy for your own use.
Post and packaging costs are the responsibility of the entrant.

5. Award

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is EUR 7,000. The sum can
be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

6. Immaterial property rights

The immaterial property rights related to the competition works remain the property of the
competitors. The entrants are responsible for ensuring that they have full copyrights to their competition entries and the right to use the works and their elements
when participating in the competition.

The material submitted to the award programme remains the property of the author and may not be
modified, changed in any way or used in whole or in part for the production of any other work.

7. Evaluation of the entries and the jury

The participating works will be evaluated in the following areas:

* Innovativeness
* Commercial potential
* Entertainment value and/or usefulness and/or artistic merit and creative implementation
* The usability of interactive and context-aware functions and functions utilizing ubiquitous computing in some other manner
* Feasibility (in terms of technology and production)
* Visual implementation and technical functionality

Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing and MindTrek will jointly
assemble the jury for this competition category. The jury will comprise at least one member from Nokia, one member from MindTrek and one member from Tampere Region Centre of
Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and have a minimum of four members in all. In addition to the actual jury, MindTrek’s preliminary jury will take part in the evaluation if
required, by carrying out a preliminary elimination.

8. Reference rights

MindTrek has the right to use the competition entries and a mention of the entrants as
references in its marketing communications.

MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing have the
right to disseminate information about the competition arrangements, competition entries, the awarding of the winners and other details related to the competition in their
marketing and advertising, e.g. on the web and in brochures and newsletters.

The submitted works may be used by MindTrek without any restrictions or written permission
in all presentations, TV broadcasting, CD/DVD productions, CD/DVD compilations and advertisements (internet, CD-ROM, TV, print).

MindTrek has the unlimited right to use the submitted material for distribution on DVDs
and other media, especially the right to distribute the video material to labels and broadcasting companies.

9. Announcement of the results and presentation of the awards

The results of the competition category will be announced and the awards presented at the
MindTrek Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at Hotel Rosendahl on 1.10.2009 at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. Later there will be the Awards Party to honor
the winners of the competitions.

Award nominees will be notified in advance. The presence of the nominees at the MindTrek
event in October is strongly recommended.

All nominees are invited to give a half day workshop around the ideas of their nominated
project with the students and tutors at Demola, www.demola.fi

10. Compensation of the finalists’ travel and other expenses

MindTrek will pay travel and accommodation costs up to the sum of EUR 800 per team for a
maximum of three invited finalists/teams flying from abroad in economy class. Any Finnish entrants among the finalists will not receive compensation for their travel costs.
However, MindTrek will pay for one conference ticket (includes entrance to the MindTrek Awards Party) and one entrance ticket to the MindTrek Awards Party for all finalist
teams. MindTrek will not pay compensation for any other possible costs incurred by the entrants due to their participation in the competition.

Further Information
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Or in urgent matters the competition chairs:
Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr (AT) tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558
Cai Melakoski, cai.melakoski (AT) tamk.fi, Tel.: +358 50 555 6581
Kirsi Lindfors, kirsi.lindfors (AT) hermia.fi, Tel.: +358 40 820 4608

Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Jury 2009
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Head Of Jury:
• Bjoern Stockleben, RBB , DE

Competition Chairs:
• Artur Lugmayr, NAMU group, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FI
• Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FI
• Kirsi Lindfors, Hermia, FI

Jury Members (to be completed):
• Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia, FI
• Jonas Forth, Abo Academy, FI
• Glen Gebhard, LMU, US
• Michael Hausenblas, Johanneum Research, AT
• Andreas Holzinger, MBCS Head Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz (MUG), AT
• Juha Kaario, Nokia, FI
• Mirette Kangas, YLE New Media, FI
• Katri Lietsala Gemilo OY, FI
• Timo Ojala, Universit of Oulu, FI
• Daniel Salber, mackey.nl, NL
• Susanne Sperring, Abo Academy, FI
• Joelle Stemp, Yu Centrik, CA
• Riku Suomela, Nokia, FI
• Teija Vainio, TUT, FI
• Robert Wierzbicki, wierzbicki.org, DE
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, SG
• Demola students

About the MindTrek Conference
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Conference Venue

MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, in Tampere, Finland. The organizer of the conference has booked quota for the conference delegates from this hotel. Please, look for more information on accommodation and registration later from our website. Please note that the accommodation is not included in the participation fee. There is also other accommodation available in Tampere, ranging from modern first-class hotels to smaller traditional hotels and dormitories. If you select one of these options, you should make the reservations by yourself with that specific hotel.
MindTrek Conference in General
Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen (AT) mindtrek.org
www.mindtrek.org
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2009 MindTrek.org/ubimedia

Ink in Multimodal Applications Workshop cancelled

2009-07-02T08:30:43Z

Due to limited participation caused by the influenza pandemic, the workshop
on using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces (http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html) has
been canceled.
Thank you for your interest.

best regards,

Debbie Dahl
W3C MMI Working Group Chair

[CFP] Call for DEMOs/POSTERs for VRST2009!!!

2009-07-02T01:55:09Z

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CALL FOR DEMOS/POSTERS for VRST2009
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-- VRST 2009 --
16th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Co-sponsored by ACM and VRSJ

Kyoto, Japan
November 18-20, 2009

http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009

We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality
Software and Technology (VRST) 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is
an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge
among researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality
software and technology. This year, VRST 2009 is co-sponsored by ACM
and the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ). VRST 2009 will
provide an opportunity for VR researchers to interact, share new
results, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging
directions for the field.

== Important Dates ==

Demos and Posters due: July 29, 2009
Conference dates: November 18-20, 2009

== Call for Demos/Posters ==

ACM VRST 2009 seeks original, unpublished demonstrations and posters
attracting all participants of VRST2009 with novel applications, from
all areas of virtual, mixed and augmented reality. Submissions will
be lightly reviewed by program committee　and accepted manuscripts
will be included in the conference proceedings.

* For Demos
A manuscript for a demonstration submission should be a one-page PDF
in the ACM SIGGRAPH format (
http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions.) Demos require
submitting a supplement documentation which explains how your demo
works with illustrations or photos. It also should include the
technical requirements such as space, power, networking, lighting and
list of equipments you will bring. Your manuscript and supplement
documentation should be directly emailed to the VRST2009 Demo Chairs:
vrst2009_demo_chairs@...

* For Posters
A manuscript for a poster submission should be a two-page PDF in the
ACM SIGGRAPH format (
http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions.) Your manuscript
should be directly emailed to the VRST2009 Poster Chairs:
vrst2009_poster_chairs@...

If you have any questions/problems, please send an email to
vrst2009_demo_chairs@... for demo submission or
vrst2009_poster_chairs@... for poster submision.

== Keynote Address ==

Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University)
"Dive Into the Movie
-- An instant casting and immersive experience in the story --"

== Conference Location ==

VRST 2009 will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is a world-renowned city
for being the ancient capital of Japan with numerous cultural
heritages. Located just two-minute walk distance from JR Kyoto
station, the conference venue, Mielparque Kyoto, is convenient for
business trips and tourism.

== Organization ==

General Co-Chairs:
Yoshifumi Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan
Benjamin Lok, University of Florida, USA
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Yuichi Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Sandor, University of South Australia, Australia

Publication Chair
Masataka Imura, Osaka University, Japan

Poster & Demo Co-Chairs:
Wataru Hashimoto, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Miguel A. Nacenta, University of Calgary, Canada
Nobuchika Sakata, Osaka University, Japan
Kazuki Takashima, Osaka University, Japan
Yuichi Tamura, Konan University, Japan
James E. Young, University of Calgary, Canada

Local Arrangement Chair:
Katsuhiko Onishi, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

*** For general information about the conference please contact:

vrst2009_inquiry@...

-----
Yuichi Itoh, Ph.D. <itoh@...>
Grad. School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University

3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

2009-06-17T15:12:28Z

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Call to participate in the

3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition

September 30th – October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia

Competition deadline: August 7th
Award Sum: 7.000 Euros
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The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example:

* How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
* What are intelligent media environments like?
* What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

A few other examples are:

* Pervasive and ubiquitous games
* Ambient installations
* Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation
* Business models
* Ambient and ubiquitous media technology
* Ubiquitous and ambient media services, devices, and environments
* Context aware, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation
* Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes
* Software, hardware and middleware framework demonstrations
* Ambient television
* etc.

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is 7 000€.
The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

All ubimedia, ubiquitous, pervasive, or ambient products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.
Competition deadline is August 7th
How to participate?
Please check out the website http://mindtrek.org/ubimedia for entry forms and actual information.

In case of questions, please contact:
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Rules of the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards

1. Organizers

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is a category of the 2009 MindTrek competition. The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU)/Tampere University of Technology, the TAMK University of Applied Sciences, and Nokia. The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.

2. Products qualifying for participation

All Ubimedia products or product and service concepts which have been finalized during the previous year after 1st January 2008 are eligible to take part in the competition.

An example of a suitable competition entry is a finished product, product pilot or demo. No drafts or mere ideas without relevant documentation will be accepted.

The competition rules do not place limitations on the technology used in the products.

The jury has the right to reject the participation of an entry if it does not fulfil the participation criteria. All jury decisions are final.

3. Entry Submissions

For completing a successful submission, the following information is required from your side:
* filled application form;
* video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, also longer will be accepted);
* documentation of the concept;

A demonstration, production, pilot, or demo is eligible to be submitted to the competition. Each entry should be in form of a video documenting the submission (approx. 3-5 minutes, however also longer videos will be accepted). The video should clearly indicate how the demonstration, production pilot, or demonstration works and relates to ubiquitous media.

In addition to the video, a short English-language based description of the concept should be attached to the competition entry in form of e.g. sketches, images, power points, word documents, or implementations. The description should present the key characteristics and benefits of the product or service in a concise and marketing-oriented manner. In addition, also other materials supporting the jury in their decision (e.g. sketches, images, power points, word documents, implementations) can be attached to the competition entry.

However, the jury decision will primarily be based on the video submissions, and additional materials will be used in case of further questions. We welcome also links to project homepages, but the jury decision can only base the decision on submitted materials.

4. Participation

Registration for the competition ends on 7th August 2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT).

If the competition entry is delivered to MindTrek via mail, it must arrive at the MindTrek Association’s office in three (3) copies no later than 7.8.2009 at 15:00 (+2 GMT). If the competition entry is implemented on the internet, its web address must be submitted to MindTrek when registering within the deadline. Late entries will not be accepted.

In addition to submitting the competition entry, participation requires registration using the registration form at the MindTrek website.

All submissions must be in English.

Originals sent to the competition will not be returned, so you should keep a copy for your own use. Post and packaging costs are the responsibility of the entrant.

5. Award

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is EUR 7,000. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.
6. Immaterial property rights

The immaterial property rights related to the competition works remain the property of the competitors. The entrants are responsible for ensuring that they have full copyrights to their competition entries and the right to use the works and their elements when participating in the competition.

The material submitted to the award programme remains the property of the author and may not be modified, changed in any way or used in whole or in part for the production of any other work.
7. Evaluation of the entries and the jury

The participating works will be evaluated in the following areas:

* Innovativeness
* Commercial potential
* Entertainment value and/or usefulness and/or artistic merit and creative implementation
* The usability of interactive and context-aware functions and functions utilizing ubiquitous computing in some other manner
* Feasibility (in terms of technology and production)
* Visual implementation and technical functionality

Nokia, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing and MindTrek will jointly assemble the jury for this competition category. The jury will comprise at least one member from Nokia, one member from MindTrek and one member from Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and have a minimum of four members in all. In addition to the actual jury, MindTrek’s preliminary jury will take part in the evaluation if required, by carrying out a preliminary elimination.

8. Reference rights

MindTrek has the right to use the competition entries and a mention of the entrants as references in its marketing communications.

MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing have the right to disseminate information about the competition arrangements, competition entries, the awarding of the winners and other details related to the competition in their marketing and advertising, e.g. on the web and in brochures and newsletters.

The submitted works may be used by MindTrek without any restrictions or written permission in all presentations, TV broadcasting, CD/DVD productions, CD/DVD compilations and advertisements (internet, CD-ROM, TV, print).

MindTrek has the unlimited right to use the submitted material for distribution on DVDs and other media, especially the right to distribute the video material to labels and broadcasting companies.
9. Announcement of the results and presentation of the awards

The results of the competition category will be announced and the awards presented at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at Hotel Rosendahl on 1.10.2009 at the MindTrek Awards Ceremony. Later there will be the Awards Party to honor the winners of the competitions.

Award nominees will be notified in advance. The presence of the nominees at the MindTrek event in October is strongly recommended.

All nominees are invited to give a half day workshop around the ideas of their nominated project with the students and tutors at Demola, www.demola.fi
10. Compensation of the finalists’ travel and other expenses

MindTrek will pay travel and accommodation costs up to the sum of EUR 800 per team for a maximum of three invited finalists/teams flying from abroad in economy class. Any Finnish entrants among the finalists will not receive compensation for their travel costs. However, MindTrek will pay for one conference ticket (includes entrance to the MindTrek Awards Party) and one entrance ticket to the MindTrek Awards Party for all finalist teams. MindTrek will not pay compensation for any other possible costs incurred by the entrants due to their participation in the competition.

Further Information
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
ubiaward (AT) mindtrek.org
Or in urgent matters the competition chairs:
Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr (AT) tut.fi, Tel.: +358 40 821 0558
Cai Melakoski, cai.melakoski (AT) tamk.fi, Tel.: +358 50 555 6581
Kirsi Lindfors, kirsi.lindfors (AT) hermia.fi, Tel.: +358 40 820 4608

Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Jury 2009

Head Of Jury:
• Bjoern Stockleben, RBB , DE

Competition Chairs:
• Artur Lugmayr, NAMU group, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FI
• Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FI
• Kirsi Lindfors, Hermia, FI

Jury Members (to be completed):
• Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia, FI
• Jonas Forth, Abo Academy, FI
• Glen Gebhard, LMU, US
• Michael Hausenblas, Johanneum Research, AT
• Andreas Holzinger, MBCS Head Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz (MUG), AT
• Juha Kaario, Nokia, FI
• Mirette Kangas, YLE New Media, FI
• Katri Lietsala Gemilo OY, FI
• Timo Ojala, Universit of Oulu, FI
• Daniel Salber, mackey.nl, NL
• Susanne Sperring, Abo Academy, FI
• Joelle Stemp, Yu Centrik, CA
• Riku Suomela, Nokia, FI
• Teija Vainio, TUT, FI
• Robert Wierzbicki, wierzbicki.org, DE
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, SG
• Demola students

About the MindTrek Conference
Conference Venue
MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, in Tampere, Finland. The organizer of the conference has booked quota for the conference delegates from this hotel. Please, look for more information on accommodation and registration later from our website. Please note that the accommodation is not included in the participation fee. There is also other accommodation available in Tampere, ranging from modern first-class hotels to smaller traditional hotels and dormitories. If you select one of these options, you should make the reservations by yourself with that specific hotel.
MindTrek Conference in General
Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen (AT) mindtrek.org
www.mindtrek.org
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2009 MindTrek.org/ubimedia

Academic MindTrek 2009 EXTENDED DEADLINE: short papers, poster presentations

2009-06-12T11:13:05Z

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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS

Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era
Ambient Media *** Social Media *** Digital Games
September 30th 2nd October, 2009, Tampere, Finland

confirmed speakers (more are to come):
- Josephine Green, Senior Director of Trends and Strategy, Philips Design
- Ignacio Correas, CEO, eBox Technologies
- Peter Cheng, Open Source Camp, Hihoo.org;
- Jani Penttinen, CTO, XIHA
- Francesca Rosella, Co-Founder, Cute Circuit

EXTENDED Submission Deadlines:
- EXTENDED TILL 21st June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages)
- 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page)
- 15th June 2009: submissions of workshop papers for accepted papers

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/academic

In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI
Publications will be published in the ACM digital library
Selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters
or in journals
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Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from
September 30th 2nd October,
which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate
current and emerging topics
of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business,
social and technical
to content-related topics.

September 30th is the main Academic day, featuring the following three
tracks:
* Social Media
Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices
both in private and public
communities. Traditional communication and expression modalities are
challenged and totally new
practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space;

* Ambient and Ubiquitous Media
The medium is the message! This conference track focuses on the
definition of ambient and ubiquitous
media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology,
art, and content. The focus
of this track is on applications, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts,
the Web 3.0, and user
experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick;

* Digital Games
Digital play and games are currently undergoing many transformations: gaming
devices are becoming truly
connected, players are finding more possibilities for collaboration, and
simultaneously games are being
applied into novel uses and mobile use contexts.

In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, workshops, and
multidisciplinary sessions) will
be held on Oct 1st & 2nd, parallel to the MindTrek business conference.
Academic speakers and authors
are warmly welcome to attend the business conference tracks as part of the
academic conference fee during
these days as well.

The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the
Academic MindTrek conference has
been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world
famous keynote speakers, plenary
sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place
where experts and thinkers
present results from their latest work regarding the development of
Internet, interactive media, and the
information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners
from diverse disciplines that
are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from
sociology and the economy, to
technology.

The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full
papers, long or short, addressing
the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and
inclusion in the proceedings.
We are interested in contributions in the topic areas social media,
ambient/ubiquitous media, and games
such as:
- case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)
- oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas
- artistic installations and running system prototypes
- user-experience studies and evaluations
- technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions
- scientific, business, or media oriented contributions
- proposals for own workshops.

Paper Proposals
All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please
remove any information that could
give an indication of the authorship. The scientific part of the conference
is organized in cooperation
with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in
the ACM Digital Library.
Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as
book chapters, edited books,
or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall
best paper from the academic
conference.

Workshop Proposals
Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with MindTrek 2009.
Workshop proposals should
include the organizing committee, a 1 page description of the theme of the
workshop, a short CV of
organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop
organizers also have the
possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings.

Tutorial Proposals
Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial,
intended audience, a short CV,
timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous
tutorials. The target length
of tutorials is 2 hours.

EXTENDED Submission Deadlines:
- EXTENDED TILL 7th JUNE 2009: submission of tutorial and workshop proposals
- EXTENDED TILL 7th JUNE 2009: submissions of long papers (6-8 pages)
- EXTENDED TILL 21st June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages)
- 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page)
- 15th June 2009: submissions of workshop papers for accepted papers

Key-Dates
- 15th July 2009: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers,
short papers and posters
- 10th August 2009: camera ready papers, copyright forms, and conference
registration
- 30th September 2nd October 2009 MindTrek academic conference

Conference Themes

1. Social Media
- business models, service models, and policies
- questions related to identity, motivation and values
- blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice
- user-created content and social networks
- mashups
- enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations
- evaluation and research methods of social media
- old and new social media
- social media and community design

2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Art
- applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology
- ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and
mixed reality contexts
- next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and
human-computer interaction
- art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or
cultural applications
- context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive internet, and
smart daily objects
- personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and
ergonomics
- ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and
audience research
- software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and
ubiquitous
- theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems
- business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce,
and policies

3. Digital Games

- theoretical and analytical studies of games and play
- game design research
- playful experiences in and around games: social play and funware
- non-entertainment uses for games: serious games, persuasive games
- games as services: new business models, service models
- games and user-created content
- pervasive and ubiquitous gaming
- online, mobile, casual and cross-media gaming

Paper Submission
- Please follow the style guidelines on
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting
your position paper and final paper.

- Note that since the papers will be published by ACM, all authors need to
sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see:
http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html)

Submit papers here www.mindtrek.org/cfp

Organizing Committee

Artur Lugmayr (General Chair)
Heljä Franssila, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala (Conference Co-chairs)
Pertti Näränen (Workshop and Tutorial Chair)
Karen Thorburn (Local Arrangements Chair)

Programme Committee

Pradeep K.Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, CANADA
Staffan Björk, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN
Irek Defee, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University, USA
Jussi Holopainen, Nokia, FINLAND
Abdelmagid Salem Hammuda, Qatar University, QATAR
Sal Humphreys, Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), AUSTRALIA
Aki Järvinen, IT University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND
Jan Kallenbach, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
Jonas Kronlund, ELISA, FINLAND
Kai Kuikkaniemi, HIIT - Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology, FINLAND
Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FINLAND
Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere (UTA), FINLAND
Marko Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
Marianna Obrist, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Hannu Paunonen, Metso Automation, FINLAND
Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, NETHERLANDS
Calin Rusu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
(HIIT), FINLAND
Kirsi Silius, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
Manfred Tscheligi, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology
(TUT), Finland
Annika Waern, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SWEDEN
Karsten D.Wolf, University of Bremen, GERMANY
Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, JAPAN

Contact
Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops,
scientific contributions:
Email: academic.chairs (at) mindtrek.org

General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms,
local arrangements, and the venue:
Email: academic.info (at) mindtrek.org

Submit papers here
www.mindtrek.org/cfp
Further Information
http://www.mindtrek.org

Supported by:
City of Tampere, Nokia Oyj, Ubiquitous Computing Cluster, Tampere University
of Technology, Tampere University, TAMK University of Applied Sciences,
Technology Centre Hermia, Neogames, Digibusiness cluster, Sombiz, COSS The
Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, and the Ambient Media Association
(AMEA).

Call for Papers: Pervasive 2010 (deadline 16 October 2009)

2009-06-11T08:27:25Z

Call for papers

Pervasive 2010, the Eight International Conference on Pervasive
Computing, will be held 17-20 May 2010 in Helsinki, Finland,
www.pervasive2010.org

This annual conference provides a premier forum for researchers to
present their latest results in all areas related to architecture,
design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive
computing as it integrates into our lives.

Pervasive 2010 builds on the success of previous conferences in this
series held in Zurich (August 2002), in Linz/Vienna (April 2004), in
Munich (May 2005), in Dublin (May 2006), Toronto (May 2007), Sydney (May
2008) and Nara (May 2009). Pervasive 2010 will include a highly
selective single-track program for technical papers.

We welcome high quality papers, either Full Papers (max 18 pages) or
Notes (max 8 pages), that describe original and unpublished research
advancing the state of the art in mobile and pervasive computing,
including but not limited to the following topics:

* Technologies and devices for pervasive computing
* Software aspects including middleware and operating systems for
pervasive computing
* Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for
designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing systems
* Applications of pervasive computing technologies
* Interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive
computing devices, applications or environments
* Evaluations and evaluation methods for assessing the impact of
pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
* Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of
pervasive computing

Both Full Papers and Notes submissions should provide important and ripe
contributions in the field. Submissions can be accompanied by a video
and/or demo in the programme.

Contributions should be relevant and grounded within Pervasive computing
and authors should write assuming a broad interdisciplinary Pervasive
computing audience.

Note that papers should not have been previously published or be
concurrently under submission for publication for any other conference,
journal, workshop or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI
number.

Author guidelines

All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Pervasive 2010
program committee and additional expert reviewers drawn from relevant
research communities.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance
of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and
presentation. If a submitted paper may appear to overlap with previously
published or simultaneously reviewed work, the authors should email
the Program Co-Chairs directly to explain how the new work represents
a unique and substantial new contribution.

Full Papers should include a thorough survey of related work positioning
the contribution, a comprehensive, detailed and comprehensible
explanation of a device, system, study, theory or method (sufficient for
replicability), and compelling validation of the work. Full Papers can
be up to 18 pages in the LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Notes should be succinct but complete contributions. Notes will be
reviewed in the same process with Full Papers, and will appear in the
proceedings and the conference programme. Notes can be up to 8 pages in
the LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Successful submissions typically break new ground and provide
substantial support for results and conclusions. The different length
of Full Papers (18 pages) and Notes (8 pages) allows authors to choose
an appropriate submission category based on the amount of contribution
or scope of the work. Consider carefully whether a Full Paper or Note
submission is more appropriate, as there will be no mechanism for
re-considering a submitted Full Paper as a Note.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The submission
process will be described on the Submission Page:
http://www.pervasive2010.org/submission.html

Paper submissions must be anonymised to facilitate blind review. Authors
are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimise
oblique and overt references and citations that may reveal the identity
of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's
previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a
neutral way.

Critical Dates

16 October 2009, 23:59 (UTC/GMT) Full Papers and Notes due
18 December 2009 Notifications
10 February 2010 Camera Ready due
17-20 May 2010 Conference

Antonio Krüger & Mirjana Spasojevic
Pervasive 2010 Programme Co-chairs
http://www.pervasive2010.org

CFP: VRST 2009 Submission Deadline Extended! Hurry to submit your work!

2009-06-08T20:28:09Z

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
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-- VRST 2009 --
16th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Co-sponsored by ACM and VRSJ

Kyoto, Japan
November 18-20, 2009

http://www.vrst.org/vrst2009

We invite you to participate in the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality
Software and Technology (VRST) 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an
international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among
researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality software and
technology. This year, VRST 2009 is co-sponsored by ACM and the
Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ). VRST 2009 will provide an
opportunity for VR researchers to interact, share new results, show
live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for
the field.

== Important Dates (Extended) ==

Abstracts due (*): June 17, 2009 (Papers & Short Papers)
Submission due: June 24, 2009 (Papers & Short Papers)
Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2009
Demos and posters due: July 29, 2009
Conference dates: November 18-20, 2009

(*) Abstracts (free format and length) need to be submitted through the
submission website, for reviewer assignment purposes only.

== Call for Papers ==

ACM VRST 2009 seeks original, unpublished papers documenting original
research contributions, practice and experience, or novel
applications, from all areas of virtual, mixed and augmented reality.

Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers, with graphs,
images, and other special areas arranged as intended for final
publication. The ACM SIGGRAPH paper preparation guidelines are
described at http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions. The
maximum length for a regular paper submission is 8 pages. The maximum
length for a short paper submission is 4 pages. Reviewers will be
instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its
length.

Submissions may be optionally accompanied by additional materials such
as images, videos, or electronic documents. These materials do not
form a part of the official submission and will be viewed only at the
discretion of the reviewers.

For more information on the online submission process visit
http://grouse.ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp:8080/VRST2009/submissions

== Keynote Address ==

Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University)
"Dive Into the Movie
-- An instant casting and immersive experience in the story --"

== Conference Location ==

VRST 2009 will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is a world-renowned city
for being the ancient capital of Japan with numerous cultural
heritages. Located just two-minute walk distance from JR Kyoto
station, the conference venue, Mielparque Kyoto, is convenient for
business trips and tourism.

== Organization ==

General Co-Chairs:
Yoshifumi Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan
Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
Benjamin Lok, University of Florida, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Yuichi Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Sandor, University of South Australia, Australia

Poster & Demo Chair:
Kazuki Takashima, Osaka University, Japan

Local Arrangement Chair:
Katsuhiko Onishi, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

*** For general information about the conference please contact:

vrst2009_inquiry@...

Mobile HCI 2009 Tutorial day

2009-06-05T08:57:54Z

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Invitation for attending the tutorial day at Mobile HCI 2009
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September 15th 2009 in Bonn, Germany

http://www.mobilehci09.org/program/tutorials

After 11 years of Mobile HCI, providing an overview of the state of the art becomes more and more challenging. During the tutorial day, a number of well-known researchers will give overviews of the state-of-the-art in selected Mobile HCI research areas. Each tutorial will be 1 hour and will address selected topics in detail. The lecturers will also introduce you to the “must read” papers in this domain. The audience is expected to be varied and include new PhD students targeted at Mobile HCI, practitioners wanting a quick survey of the state-of-the-art, and educators wishing to get an overview of Mobile HCI for their own teaching.

The tutorials are:
- Matt Jones (Swansea University, UK): Mobile Search
- Luca Chittaro (University of Udine, Italy): Information Visualization and Visual Interfaces for Mobile Devices
- Chris Kray (Newcastle University, UK): Mobile Guides
- Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland):
Mobile Privacy
- Enrico Rukzio (Lancaster University, UK): Mobile Interaction with the Real World
- Adrian David Cheok (National University of Singapore): Social and Physical Interaction for Mobile Mixed Reality and Mobile Entertainment Computing

The tutorial day registration fee is €30 for students and €80 for professional participants (when registering before the early registration deadline on June 29 2009). The registration includes access to all the tutorials, as well as coffee/tea and lunch during breaks.

Register now at http://www.mobilehci09.org/registration

I'm looking forward to see you at the Mobile HCI 2009 tutorial day, Enrico.

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Best regards
Dr. Enrico Rukzio
Academic Fellow and Lecturer
Computing Department
Lancaster University (UK)

Phone: +44 1524 510358
Mobile: +44 7748373346
Fax: +44 1524 510492

mailto:rukzio@...
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~rukzio/

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Visit the Mobile HCI 2009 tutorial day,
http://www.mobilehci09.org/program/tutorials
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CfP: Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiqutious Era * Ambient Media * Social Media * Digital Games *

2009-05-27T11:25:30Z

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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS

Academic MindTrek 2009: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era
Ambient Media *** Social Media *** Games
September 30th 2nd October, 2009, Tampere, Finland

confirmed keynote speakers (more are to come):
- Ignacio Correas, CEO, eBox Technologies
- Peter Cheng, Open Source Camp, Hihoo.org;
- Jani Penttinen, CTO, XIHA
- Francesca Rosella, Co-Founder, Cute Circuit

EXTENDED Submission Deadlines:
- EXTENDED TILL 7th JUNE 2009: submission of tutorial and workshop
proposals
- EXTENDED TILL 7th JUNE 2009: submissions of long papers (6-8 pages)
- 15th June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages)
- 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page)
- 15th June 2009: submissions of workshop papers for accepted papers

http://www.mindtrek.org
http://www.mindtrek.org/academic

In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCHI
Publications will be published in the ACM digital library
Selected set of high-level contributions will published as book chapters
or in journals
============================================================================
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Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from
September 30th 2nd October,
which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate
current and emerging topics
of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business,
social and technical
to content-related topics.

September 30th is the main Academic day, featuring the following three
tracks:
* Social Media
Social media and Web 2.0 technologies are applied in ever diverse practices
both in private and public
communities. Traditional communication and expression modalities are
challenged and totally new
practices are constructed in the collaborative, interactive media space;

* Ambient and Ubiquitous Media
The medium is the message! This conference track focuses on the
definition of ambient and ubiquitous
media with a cross-disciplinary viewpoint: ambient media between technology,
art, and content. The focus
of this track is on applications, theory, art-works, mixed reality concepts,
the Web 3.0, and user
experiences that make ubiquitous and ambient media tick;

* Digital Games
Digital play and games are currently undergoing many transformations: gaming
devices are becoming truly
connected, players are finding more possibilities for collaboration, and
simultaneously games are being
applied into novel uses and mobile use contexts.

In addition, special academic sessions (e.g. tutorials, workshops, and
multidisciplinary sessions) will
be held on Oct 1st & 2nd, parallel to the MindTrek business conference.
Academic speakers and authors
are warmly welcome to attend the business conference tracks as part of the
academic conference fee during
these days as well.

The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, where the
Academic MindTrek conference has
been a part of this unique set of events comprising competitions, world
famous keynote speakers, plenary
sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place
where experts and thinkers
present results from their latest work regarding the development of
Internet, interactive media, and the
information society. MindTrek brings together researchers and practitioners
from diverse disciplines that
are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from
sociology and the economy, to
technology.

The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality full
papers, long or short, addressing
the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and
inclusion in the proceedings.
We are interested in contributions in the topic areas social media,
ambient/ubiquitous media, and games
such as:
- case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)
- oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas
- artistic installations and running system prototypes
- user-experience studies and evaluations
- technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions
- scientific, business, or media oriented contributions
- proposals for own workshops.

Paper Proposals
All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please
remove any information that could
give an indication of the authorship. The scientific part of the conference
is organized in cooperation
with ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Conference proceedings will be published in
the ACM Digital Library.
Selected high quality papers will be published in international journals, as
book chapters, edited books,
or via open access journals. There will also be a reward for the overall
best paper from the academic
conference.

Workshop Proposals
Feel free to suggest workshops which are co-organized with MindTrek 2009.
Workshop proposals should
include the organizing committee, a 1 page description of the theme of the
workshop, a short CV of
organizers, duration, the proceedings publisher, and the schedule. Workshop
organizers also have the
possibility to add publications to the main conference proceedings.

Tutorial Proposals
Tutorial proposals should include a 2-page description of the tutorial,
intended audience, a short CV,
timetable, required equipment, references, and a track record of previous
tutorials. The target length
of tutorials is 2 hours.

Submission Deadlines
- 15th May 2009: submission of tutorial and workshop proposals
- 31st May 2009: submissions of long papers (6-8 pages)
- 15th June 2009: submission of short papers (3-4 pages)
- 30th June 2009: submission of poster presentations (1 page)
- 15th July 2009: submission of workshop papers for accepted workshops

Key-Dates
- 25th May 2009: notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop and
tutorial proposals
- 15th July 2009: notification of acceptance/rejection for long and short
papers
- 10th August 2009: camera ready papers, copyright forms, and conference
registration
- 30th September 2nd October 2009 MindTrek academic conference

Conference Themes

1. Social Media
- business models, service models, and policies
- questions related to identity, motivation and values
- blogs, wikis, collaboration and social platform designs in practice
- user-created content and social networks
- mashups
- enterprise 2.0 and social computing in work organizations
- evaluation and research methods of social media
- old and new social media
- social media and community design

2. Ambient and Ubiquitous Media - between Technology, Services, and Art
- applications and services utilizing ubiquitous and pervasive technology
- ubicom in eLearning, leisure, storytelling, art works, advertising, and
mixed reality contexts
- next generation user interfaces, ergonomics, multimodality, and
human-computer interaction
- art works for smart public or indoor spaces, mobile phones, museums, or
cultural applications
- context awareness, sensor perception, context sensitive internet, and
smart daily objects
- personalization, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and
ergonomics
- ambient human computer interaction, experience design, usability, and
audience research
- software, hardware, middleware, and technologies for pervasive and
ubiquitous
- theoretical methods and algorithms in ubiquitous and ambient systems
- business models, service models, media economics, regulations, x-commerce,
and policies

3. Digital Games

- theoretical and analytical studies of games and play
- game design research
- playful experiences in and around games: social play and funware
- non-entertainment uses for games: serious games, persuasive games
- games as services: new business models, service models
- games and user-created content
- pervasive and ubiquitous gaming
- online, mobile, casual and cross-media gaming

Paper Submission
- Please follow the style guidelines on
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates for formatting
your position paper and final paper.

- Note that since the papers will be published by ACM, all authors need to
sign an ACM copyright form. (For further guidelines see:
http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html)

Submit papers here www.mindtrek.org/cfp

Organizing Committee

Artur Lugmayr (General Chair)
Heljä Franssila, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala (Conference Co-chairs)
Pertti Näränen (Workshop and Tutorial Chair)
Karen Thorburn (Local Arrangements Chair)

Programme Committee

Pradeep K.Atrey, The University of Winnipeg, CANADA
Staffan Björk, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN
Irek Defee, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University, USA
Jussi Holopainen, Nokia, FINLAND
Abdelmagid Salem Hammuda, Qatar University, QATAR
Sal Humphreys, Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), AUSTRALIA
Aki Järvinen, IT University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND
Jan Kallenbach, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
Jonas Kronlund, ELISA, FINLAND
Kai Kuikkaniemi, HIIT - Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology, FINLAND
Cai Melakoski, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, FINLAND
Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere (UTA), FINLAND
Marko Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
Marianna Obrist, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Hannu Paunonen, Metso Automation, FINLAND
Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, NETHERLANDS
Calin Rusu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
(HIIT), FINLAND
Kirsi Silius, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
Manfred Tscheligi, ICT & S Centre, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology
(TUT), Finland
Annika Waern, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SWEDEN
Karsten D.Wolf, University of Bremen, GERMANY
Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, JAPAN

Contact
Questions concerning academic content, papers, tutorials, workshops,
scientific contributions:
Email: academic.chairs (at) mindtrek.org

General questions concerning payments, administration, copyright forms,
local arrangements, and the venue:
Email: academic.info (at) mindtrek.org

Submit papers here
www.mindtrek.org/cfp
Further Information
http://www.mindtrek.org

Supported by:
City of Tampere, Nokia Oyj, Ubiquitous Computing Cluster, Tampere University
of Technology, Tampere University, TAMK University of Applied Sciences,
Technology Centre Hermia, Neogames, Digibusiness cluster, Sombiz, COSS The
Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, and the Ambient Media Association
(AMEA).

CFP: CZECH REPUBLIC: NDT2009: IEEE indexing. Last 4 days

2009-05-18T12:37:25Z

The proposed conference on the above them will be be held at the VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic from July 28 to July 31 2009 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.

Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actual social networks
Simulation models for social networks

LOCATION

NDT 2009 will be organized by VSB-Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic, in cooperation with the Digital Information Research Foundation (DIRF) located in India. All the activities of the conference will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Date:	~~May 10, 2009~~, May 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance	June 10, 2009
Camera-ready	June 20, 2009
Registration	June 20, 2009
Conference date:	July 28-31, 2009

General Chairs

Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Would you like to be a reviewer?

All the reviewing are online. Please visit http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx then select link be a reviewer. More details are listed there.

SUBMISSION

Submission instructions are listed at
http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx

AVIOS student programming contest: demonstrate your multimodal development skills

2009-05-12T10:59:01Z

Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Today the Applied Voice Input/Output Society
(AVIOS) announced their fourth annual student speech application contest
sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, and Voxeo.
Applications must involve speech input and/or output, but may be pure
speech or multimodal. Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000
will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create
applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user
friendly.

The contest encourages students to develop applications using speech
technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text to speech
synthesis and to combine them with other modalities. This year, students
may use any of a variety of platforms including AT&T Speech Mashups,
Cepstral VoiceForge TTS service, CMU's RavenClaw/Olympus, Google
Android, I6net VXI*, Loquendo VoxNauta Platform, Lumenvox Speech
Engine Standard License, Opera, Voxeo Prophecy, and Voxeo Tropo.

Students anywhere in the world can submit their creative and innovative
applications to be judged by speech application experts. The contest
also provides a forum for students to show what they can do with the
power of speech applications For more information and the contest entry
form, go to http://www.avios.org.

Call for Participation: Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications

2009-05-08T06:32:45Z

Advances in touch and pen input, spoken input, increasingly
powerful mobile devices, and faster networks are making possible
an unprecedented variety of groundbreaking ways of interacting
with the World Wide Web. Within the World Wide Web Consortium,
the Multimodal Interaction Working Group is developing the
underlying standards that support these new applications.

You are invited to participate in a Workshop that will
gather new ideas about integrating pen input into multimodal
applications.

The Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces will take place on 10-11 July 2009
in Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada), hosted by the University
of Western Ontario. The workshop is included in a set of
of colocated Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/.

Complete information about the workshop can be found in the
Call for Participation. http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html
It is not necessary to belong to the W3C to participate and
there is no registration fee.

The goal of the Workshop is to help the Multimodal Interaction
Working Group integrate handwriting or pen modality components
(Ink Modality Components) into the MMI Architecture and clarify
what should be added to the Multimodal specifications to enable
applications to adapt to various modality combinations including Ink.
Attendees will discuss requirements for changes, extensions
and additions to Ink standards especially in Multimodal
Applications developed based on the W3C's MMI Architecture as
a means of making InkML more useful in current and emerging markets.
Position papers are due 1 June 2009.

More about the Ink Markup Language (InkML)
http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ and W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

best regards,

Debbie Dahl
W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair
for the Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Last CFP: Czech Republic: NDT2009

2009-05-01T10:49:35Z

Information and Data Management
Data and Network mining
Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling
XML-based languages
Security and Access Control
Trust models for social networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New architectures for web-based social networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks
Indexing and query processing for moving objects
User interfaces and usability issues form mobile applications
Mobile social networks
Peer-to-peer social networks
Sensor networks and social sensing
Social search
Social networking inspired collaborative computing
Information propagation on social networks
Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks
Measurement studies of actual social networks
Simulation models for social networks

LOCATION

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Date:	~~May 10, 2009~~, May 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance	June 10, 2009
Camera-ready	June 20, 2009
Registration	June 20, 2009
Conference date:	July 28-31, 2009

COMMITTEES

General Chairs
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Program Chairs

Khalid Saeed, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France

Program co-Chairs
Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK
Hefei Ling, University College London, UK

Proceedings Chair
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Publicity Chair
Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Saudi Arabia

Industrial Chairs
Soraya Mostefaoui, Open University, UK.

Would you like to be a reviewer?

All the reviewing are online. Please visit http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default.aspx then select link be a reviewer. More details are listed there.

SUBMISSION

Submission instructions are listed at
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