Technical Scope

Multimodal interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving spoken language understanding, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, etc. They aim at efficient, convenient and natural interaction and communication between computers and human users. Multimodal interfaces will ultimately enable users to interact with computers using everyday skills.

Papers describing original work on all aspects of multimodal interfaces are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perceptual computing models and systems
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Character and handwriting recognition
• Hand gesture and lip-motion recognition
• Gaze tracking, face detection and facial expression recognition
• Machine translation and multilingual interfaces
• Computer graphics for multimodal interfaces
• Sensors for multimodal interfaces
• Affective computing for HCI
• Distributed HCI
• Multimodal interfaces for the Internet and virtual reality
• Multimodal interfaces for wearable and mobile computing
• Multimodal interfaces for the disabled
• Human factors in multimodal interfaces
• Platforms and tool

Submission

Papers must be written in English and should be no longer than 6 pages single spaced, and should use a 10-point Times font. All printed material must follow the CS press specifications.
The title page should include the title of the paper, an abstract (200-300 words), a list of keywords, and the authors' contact details (postal and email addresses, fax and phone numbers). Submission can be done by email, via the web site Electronic files should be in PDF or PostScript.

In addition, proposals for demonstrations are encouraged. A 1-2 page description of the demonstration is required. The template is the same as for the paper guidelines. (See above)

Publication

Papers accepted for presentation at the Conference will be included in the Proceedings to be published by the CS press

Questions?

For further information, please contact the Conference Secretariat at

ICMI'02 secretariat/Céline Morel
Interactive Systems lab
Carnegie Mellon University
NSH , 5000 Forbes ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224 USA
Tel: +1 412 268 5480
Fax: +1 412 268 5578
Email: celine@cs.cmu.edu

General Co Chairs

A. Waibel (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany)
W. Gao (CAS, China)

Program Committee Co Chairs

Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research, USA)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology , Japan)
Jie Yang (CMU, USA)

Program Committee

Greg Abowd, (Georgia Tech, USA)
Chris Atkeson (CMU, USA)
Xilin Chen (CMU, USA)
P. Cohen (OGI, USA)
Jeffrey Cohn (Pittsburgh University, USA)
Joelle Coutaz (CLIPS, France)
James L. Crowley (I.N.P.G, France)
Trevor Darrell (MIT, USA)
R. Dillman (UKA, Germany)
Irfan Essa (Georgia tech, USA)
James Flanagan (Rutgers, USA)
Myron Flickner (IBM-Almaden, CA)
Marcello Federico (IRST, Italy)
Björn Granström (CTT, Sweden)
Tom Huang (UIUC USA)
Giani Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Yann Lecun (ATT, USA)
Dominic Massaro (UC-Santa Cruz)
Kenji Mase (ATR, Japan)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Brad Myers (CMU, USA)
Satoshi Nakamura (ATR, USA)
R.W. Picard (MIT, USA)
Giuseppe Riccardi (ATT labs, USA)
Christian Rohrer (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Steve Shafer (Microsoft Research, USA)
Harry Shum (Microsoft Research China)
Dan Siewiorek (CMU, USA)
Thad Starner (Georgia tech, USA)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy)
Bernhard Suhm (BBN, USA)
Tieniu Tan (NLPR, China)
Matthew Turk (UCSB, USA)
Bo Xu (CAS, China)
Jae Woo Yang (ETRI, Korea)