HCM2007 2^nd International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia September 28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany - in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007

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PROGRAM 8:50 – 9:00 Welcome 9:00 – 10:00 Exploiting Multimodality to Achieve Emotional Sensitivity in Human-Computer Interaction Elisabeth Andre, Augsburg University, Germany Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) Session I 10:30 – 10:55 Pillows as Adaptive Interfaces in Ambient Environments Frank Nack, Thecla Schiphorst, Zeljko Obrenovic, Michiel KauwATjoe, Simon de Bakker, Lora Aroyo 10:55 – 11:20 Music Emotion Recognition: The Role of Individuality Yi-Hsuan Yang, Ya-Fan Su, Yu-Ching Lin, Homer Chen 11:20 – 11:45 3D Tracking of Pointing Gesture for Wearable Visual Interfaces Yunde Jia 11:45 – 12:10 Affective Multimodal Mirror: Sensing and Eliciting Laughter Willem Melder, Khiet Truong, Mark Neerincx, David Van Leeuwen Lunch Break (12:10 – 13:30) Session II 13:30 – 13:55 Towards Open Source Authoring and Presentation of Multimedia Content Nikitas Sgouros, Alexandros Margaritis 13:55 – 14:20 Preattentive Visualization of Information Relevance Matthias Deller, Achim Ebert, Michael Bender, Stefan Agne, Henning Barthel 14:20 – 14:45 Local Spatiotemporal Descriptors for Visual Recognition of Spoken Phrases Guoying Zhao, Matti Pietikäinen, Abdenour Hadid 14:45 – 15:10 Interconnected Media for Human-Centered Understanding Katja Einsfeld Coffee Break (15:10 – 15:40) Session III: Content Production 15:40 – 16:05 Multimedia and human-in-the-loop: Interaction as content enrichment Bruno Emond 16:05 – 16:30 Too close for comfort? Adapting to the user's cultural background Matthias Rehm 16:30 – 16:55 Human Support Improvements by Natural Man-Machine Collaboration Motoyuki Ozeki Final Panel (16:55 – 17:45)