Special issue of UAIS: Call for Papers
Please see http://adam.sporka.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=misc:2007_uais_cfp
for details.
Information for Participants
Workshop agenda and conference proceedings have been posted.
Please prepare a slide-show presentations of your papers. The length of
your presentation should not exceed 10 minutes. There will be a data
projector as well as a PC available in our room. Available formats are:
OpenOffice 1, 2, PowerPoint 2003, PDF. CDs, DVDs, or flash disks are
welcome. You may also send your presentations to the organizers' e-mail
address organizers@vocal-input.org .
If you are bringing a demo, please bring all necessary components
to San Jose that will allow you to run your system. Unfortunately, we
can not provide additional PCs or Internet connection.
Please prepare and print a "microposter" based on your paper. The
microposter should not exceed the A5 format (that is 14.8 x 10.5 cm,
or 5.8 x 4.1 in). Every microposter will become a part of the poster
that we will develop during the workshop and that will be displayed
in the CHI Commons Area to present the outcome of the workshop to the
others.
- The registration desk is located on the main level of the McEnery Convention Center (map at http://www.chi2007.org/attend/convention_center.php)
- Registration will be open from 17:00-19:00 on Friday evening, from 8:00-12:00 on Saturday morning, and then all day (8:00-18:00) on Sunday.
- Location of the workshop: McEnery Convention Center, room A7
Late-breaking workshop information
Call for Papers and Participation
The research of vocal interaction has primarily been focused on the
use of systems for speech recognition and synthesis. While speech
recognition and synthesis can be successfully used in various
domains, they can be unsuitable for certain scenarios such as in
applications requiring immediate and continuous control and those
involving users with speech impairments.
This workshop aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in vocal
interaction methods that go beyond word recognition by exploiting
the information within non-verbal vocalizations. Among others, we
will discuss different ways in which non-verbal vocal parameters
(e .g. pitch, volume, timbre, etc.) may be used as either primary or
additional source of input into interactive systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Demonstration of systems or interaction techniques incorporating
non-verbal vocal interaction
- Augmentation or emulation of conventional input devices
- Applications in assistive technologies, education, entertainment,
and art
- Speech and language therapy and disability compensation
- Psychological aspects of non-verbal interaction
- Physiological limitations, such as resolution of vocal
parameters or fatigue that may occur when producing the sounds
- Social and cross-cultural issues
Short, 4-page position papers (for format, see
below) addressing topics of the workshop will
be reviewed by an international program committee and selected based
on their quality, innovation, and the potential of fostering
discussion.
Contributors to this workshop will be invited to submit an
extended paper for a special issue of the journal
Universal Access in The
Information Society issued by Springer.
The workshop will be a full-day event and will consist of
presentations of position papers, demonstration of systems, as well
as group discussions. At least one author of an accepted paper needs
to register for the workshop and for at least one day of the
conference (either day from Monday to Thursday).
People
Program Committee
- Sama’a Al-Hashimi, Middlesex University,
United Kingdom
- Tanja Bänzinger, Geneva Emotion Research Group,
Switzerland
- Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research,
USA
- Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington, USA
- Tony Brooks, University of Aalborg,
Denmark
- Dan Gärdenfors, Anoto AB,
Sweden
- Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan
- Perttu Hämäläinen, Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland
- Nils Klarlund, Google Inc, USA
- Tomáš Macek, Voice Technologies and Systems, IBM,
Czech Republic
- Rachel McCrindle, University of Reading, United Kingdom
- Zdeněk Míkovec, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
- Andrew Sears, UMBC, USA
- Pavel Slavík, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
- Richard Watts, University of Cambridge; Amino Communications Ltd, United Kingdom
Workshop Organizers
Contact: organizers@vocal-input.org
- Adam J Sporka,
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Telephone: (+420) 603-287-605 (Central European Time)
- Susumu Harada,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- Sri Kurniawan,
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Submission Guidelines
Please set your papers in the 2-column ACM format. LaTeX and MS Word
templates are available here:
(Please remove the ACM copyright information box. You will retain your
copyrights until your paper is published in the journal.)
Your paper should not exceed the length of four pages.
Please send your papers in PDF format to
submissions@vocal-input.org.
We don't request anonymization of your submissions.
Note: You should receive a confirmation that your submission has been
received within 6 hours. Please contact us if you do not receive this
confirmation.
Additionaly, you are encouraged to submit a video(s) of your system
that demonstrates its functionality and interaction methods. Please
do not send this file as attachment to your message. Instead, please
put the file on a non-public WWW page and send us its URL. Your video
should not exceed 50 MB of file size and 5 minutes of length.
Don't hesitate to contact us regarding any questions or concerns
at organizers@vocal-input.org
or at telephone (+420) 603-287-605.
Registration
At least one author of an accepted paper needs to register for the workshop
and for at least one day of the CHI 2007 conference (either day from Monday
to Thursday).
The details on registration costs are available on the on the
Registration Fees
page of CHI 2007 website.