Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)

held as special session in conjunction with
USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

November 4th-5th 2010
Klagenfurt, Austria


Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives. Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia, like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search. This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily. This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI). In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the development of applications in this field.

Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:
* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports,
Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems
We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.
Submission
==========
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)
All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.
Important Dates
===============
* June 25, 2010 Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 23, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 15, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure
Program Committee (to be extended)
==================================
* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US
Workshop Chairs
===============
* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT
For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

No comments: