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NEWSc. EXTENDED DEADLINE: IEEE Computer Special issue on Human-Centered Computing – October 15,
2006!!!!!! We organize a special issue on Human-Centered Computing in the IEEE
Computer Magazine (to be published in April 2007; guest editors A. Jaimes, N. Sebe, D. Gatica-Perez, T.S. Huang).
Submissions to the magazine will undergo a separate review process (a
separate call for papers will be posted soon). However, authors who submit to
the HCM workshop and later submit to the special issue will have the benefit
of additional comments to prepare their magazine contributions. KEYNOTE Presentation: Events Are Natural for
Human-Centered Computing Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvin In addition to the workshop, we are organizing a special
session at the main conference on Human-Centered Multimedia. The special
session is meant as an "overview" of the field. Invited speakers at
the special session include Sharon
Oviatt (Oregon Health & Science University,
USA), Marc
Davis (Yahoo! Research Berkeley, USA), and Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA). Invited speakers at
the workshop include Ahmed Elgammal (Rutgers University, USA), Barbara Barry
(MIT Media Lab, USA), Nahum Gershon (Mitre Croporation, USA),and Paulo
Barthelmess (Oregon Health & Science
University, USA ). For registration please visit the conference page. GENERAL INFORMATION Human-Centered
Computing (HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines and research
areas that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the
design of computational methods. Researchers and designers of HCC methods and
systems include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science,
sociology, and graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC deals with
understanding humans, both as individuals and in social groups, by focusing
on the ways that human beings adopt, adapt, and organize their lives around
computational technologies, and on how the development of computational
technologies can be informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human
abilities, etc.). Human-Centered Computing addresses problems that the
field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) does not generally address. In
HCC the focus is not only on interaction, but also on the design of
algorithms and systems with a human focus from start to finish. This
multidisciplinary workshop will focus on the multimedia aspects of HCC and
introduce key concepts, discuss theoretical frameworks and technical
approaches, challenges, research opportunities, and open issues in multimedia
interaction, content analysis, and content production. We
invite researchers and designers from various disciplines to submit original
technical contributions and position statements to explore and define radical
ways in which Human-Centered Multimedia can revolutionize computing. In order
to break away from the traditional workshop format, a strong emphasis will be
placed on discussions leading to specific goals set by the workshop
organizers. Below
is a (incomplete) list of questions we would like authors to address in their
contributions (please see the Call for Papers for list of topics and more
details): 1.
What is Human-Centered Computing (HCC) and why is
it important? (give examples of what is and what is
not) 2.
What are the main characteristics that make an <interaction, analysis, or production> system
human-centered and how does it differ from a non-HC system? 3.
What role does <interaction, analysis, or
production> play in HCC? 4.
What is your general assessment of the state of the
art of <interaction, analysis, or production> with respect to HCC? 5.
What is different in HCC compared to existing
fields: HCI, ubiquitous computing, computer vision? 6.
What is missing in HCC <interaction, analysis,
or production> and what are the most important challenges to advance the
state of the art (are these technical, theoretical, or other)? 7.
What is the role that multimedia plays in HCC? Is
all multimedia Human-Centered? WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP, Switzerland (gatica_at_idiap.ch)
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