Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

摘要

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Seattle and to the 2015 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. This year's conference continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presenting research results and experience studies on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI 2015 features a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits, grand challenges, and doctoral symposium papers. It is followed by a day with five workshops. The ICMI 2015 call for long and short papers attracted 127 paper submissions (84 in the long category and 43 in the short category). The papers were reviewed by a program committee led by 3 Program Chairs and composed of 25 Senior Program Committee members and a large number of technical reviewers. In a rebuttal process, the authors had the opportunity to clarify any misunderstandings and respond to questions raised in the reviews and meta-reviews. After the rebuttal phase, the program chairs held several remote meetings to discuss the papers. As a result, 24 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 28 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The acceptance rate is 19% for oral presentations and 41% overall, for short and long papers combined. This year, the conference will host two invited keynote speeches from thought leaders in industry and academia. They are: Sharing Representations for Long Tail Computer Vision Problems, Dr. Samy Bengio, Google (USA),Interaction Studies with Social Robots, Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire (UK). In addition, Dr. Eric Horvitz, Microsoft (USA), the recipient of the ICMI 2015 Sustained Accomplishment Award, presented by the ICMI Advisory Board, will give a plenary talk entitled Connections. We encourage attendees to attend the keynote presentations. These valuable and insightful talks can and will guide us to a better understanding of the future of multimodal interaction. The main ICMI conference program includes an exciting Demonstration session co-chaired by Hrvoje Benko (Microsoft, USA) and Stefan Scherer (University of Southern California, USA) that will showcase innovative implementations, systems, and technologies that incorporate multimodal interaction. The demonstration session will include 12 refereed demonstrations (out of 17 submitted), plus 5 demonstrations that accompany accepted main track papers. The Doctoral Consortium is by now a traditional ICMI satellite event which takes place on the first day of the conference and extends our commitment to the next generation of researchers. This year, the event is co-chaired by Carlos Busso (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) and Vidhyasaharan Sethu (University of New South Wales, Australia). In this special session, a highly-accomplishedmentor team and senior PhD students, selected via a rigorous review process by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee, as well as by peer reviews from other applicants, gather to discuss research plans and progress of each student. From among 30 applications, 14 students were accepted for participation. The accepted students receive a travel grant and registration waiver to attend both the Doctoral Consortium event, and the main conference. The organizers thank the U.S. National Science Foundation (award IIS 1346655 and IIS 1443097) and conference sponsors for the financial support that makes this possible. The Multimodal Grand Challenges were introduced to ICMI in 2012. They are designed to stimulate the community with standardized corpora competitions, and new research questions. This year's challenges are co-chaired by Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto,