HCM2006 1^st International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia October 27, 2006, Santa Barbara, USA - in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006

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PROGRAM 8:30 – 9:15 Keynote presentation: Events Are Natural for Human-Centered Computing Ramesh Jain, Univ. of California, Irvine Abstract: Emerging applications of computing systems are moving away from examining isolated silos of multimedia data toward more holistic pictures of evolving situations. Multimedia systems provide both information and experience related to a dynamic situation. Current information environments run contrary to the natural synergy of human and machine. People are best at conceptual and perceptual analysis and relatively weak in logical analysis; computers are exactly the opposite. As information and communication technology evolved, though multimedia has become increasingly ubiquitous, our information organization and interaction environments still use technology suited for the last century. Current information system tools are very good in dealing with entities, objects, and keywords. We believe that to address the needs of dynamic multimedia environments, ‘events’ are better organizational mechanism. There are strong and deep conceptual, engineering, and human centered design reasons to consider events as a primary source of organization structure for dynamic multimedia systems. In this talk we discuss event models and their use in emerging multimedia applications considering some common examples. Session I: Interaction 9:15 – 9:45 Human-centered Collaborative Interaction Paulo Barthelmess, Edward C Kaiser, Rebecca Lunsford, David McGee, Sharon Oviatt, and Phillip R Cohen (Natural Interaction Systems, USA) 9:15 – 10: 10 Discussions Coffee Break (10:10 – 10:30) Session II: Content Production 10:30 – 11:00 Sense and Sensibility in Multimedia Computing Barbara Barry (MIT, USA) 11:00 – 11:30 Multimedia: Is It Always Better? Nahum Gershon (MITRE Corporation, USA) 11:30 – 12: 00 Discussions Lunch Break (12:00 – 13:30) Poster Session (13:30 – 15:10) 13:30 – 13:40 Poster Presentations (1 slide/poster) Lifetrak: Music in Tune with Your Life Sasank Reddy and Jeff Mascia Human-Centered Interaction with Documents Andreas Dengel, Achim Ebert, Stefan Agne, Bertin Klein, and Matthias Deller Creating Serendipitous Encounters in a Geographically Distributed Community Adithya Renduchintala, Aisling Kelliher, and Hari Sundaram Discovering Groups of People in Google News Dhiraj Joshi and Daniel Gatica-Perez Interactive Video Authoring and Sharing Based on Two-Layer Templates Xian-Sheng Hua User Modeling in a Speech Translation-driven Mediated Interaction Setting JongHo Shin, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan Tillarom: An AJAX-based Folk Song Search and Retrieval System with Gesture Interface Based on Kodály Hand Signs Attila Licsar, Tamas Sziranyi, Laszlo Kovacs, and Balazs Pataki Community Annotation and Remix: A Research Platform and Pilot Deployment Ryan Shaw and Patrick L. Schmitz Toward Multimodal Fusion of Affective Cues Marco Paleari and Christine L. Lisetti Using Model Trees for Evaluating Dialog Error Conditions Based on Acoustic Speech Information Abe F. Kazemzadeh Driver Monitoring for a Human-Centered Driver Assistance System Joel McCall and Mohan Trivedi A Methodological Study of Situation Understanding Utilizing Environments for Multimodal Observation of Infant Behavior Shogo Ishikawa Coffee Break (15:10 – 15:30) Session III: Content Production 15:30 – 16:00 What Should Be Automated? - The Fundamental Question Underlying Human-Centered Computing Matti Tedre (University of Joensuu, Finland) 16:00 – 16:30 Human-centered Computing: Representations and Challenges Ahmed Elgammal (Rutgers University, USA) 16:30 – 17: 00 Discussions Final Panel (17:00 – 17:45)