Connectionists: CFP: AISB 2014 Symposium: Machine Learning, Expressive Movement, Interaction Design, Creative Applications

[Marco Gillies]

apologies for cross posting

Marco

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Call for Participation, AISB 2014 Symposium:
Machine Learning, Expressive Movement, Interaction Design, Creative Applications

1 and 2 April 20-14
					
Workshop website: https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02mg/GestureWorkshop/?page_id=15
Submission deadline: 21st January 2014
		
			
OVERVIEW
Machine Learning (ML) is a set of techniques widely used for data analysis and understanding of complex phenomena. A subset of ML methods that are real time or that look at continuous data have been designed to carry out a wide variety of tasks such as gesture recognition, movement prediction, gesture spotting, animation, social signal processing, style generation. These in turn can be applied in diverse areas including novel human computer interaction methods, human robot interaction, musical performance, digital arts and entertainment. All of these application areas involve specific constraints in the design of ML methods, regarding movement complexity (e.g. from symbols to continuous gestures), learning procedure (e.g. from few examples) and realtime inference.


PRESENTATION
The workshop will take the form of a symposium to bear on the key challenges of the design of ML methods for expressive movement, interaction design and related fields. We wish to emphasize how the applications contexts contribute to shaping the methods used, the learning strategies, the tasks imagined. We will consider both computational challenges and interaction design issues. We will draw on advances in interactive art and music, fields which provide many relevant use cases for real-time, continuous, and “expressive” gestural interactions.
					
This 2-day symposium will consist of 3 sessions: presentations, demos, and an evening performance.
					
Researchers from industry, academia, and arts with an interest in the machine learning of gestural input are invited to submit one of the following types of position papers:
1.) Technical innovation in machine learning & gesture analysis
2.) Design case studies of gestural interaction systems
3.) Proposals for live demos of functional prototypes
		
SUBMISSION			
To submit, please email your submission paper (PDF) to mlworkshop at goldsmithsdigital.com. Note that supporting videos are encouraged (send as URLs). 

Papers should be maximum 4 pages in AISB format. Template files for submission can be found  at:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html

Selection will be based on submission quality and relevance to the workshop topic. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by program committee members. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for AISB.

Note that a special issue in a journal will be considered and discussed during the workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: 21 January 2014
* Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2014
* Workshop: 1-2 April 2014
					
ORGANISERS
* Frédéric Bevilacqua, IRCAM, France
* Baptiste Caramiaux, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 
* Rebecca Fiebrink, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
* Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
* Atau Tanaka, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK