<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Glasgow, Scotland. November 13-17th, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/</a></span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">First Call for Papers</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Due May 12th, 2017. Rebuttals July 21st-July 25th. Decisions on August 25th. Camera Ready due Sept 22nd.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submit: <a href="http://precisionconference.com/~icmi" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://precisionconference.com/~icmi</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 19th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. 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.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year, ICMI welcomes contributions on human-computer interaction as a particular topic of interest. We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community.  ICMI 2017 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI'2017 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p><ul class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Affective Computing and interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gesture, touch and haptics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Healthcare, assistive technologies</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Human communication dynamics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interaction with smart environment</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Machine learning for multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mobile multimodal systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal behavior generation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal datasets and validation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal dialogue modeling</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal fusion and representation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal interactive applications</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speech behaviors in social interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">System components and multimodal platforms</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual behaviors in social interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction</span></p></li></ul><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Process</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are two different submission categories:</span></p><ul class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Long paper :The maximum length is 8 pages in the two-column ACM conference format (excluding references). An accompanying demonstration can be presented during the demo session (see Demonstration section). Accepted long papers will be presented as either a long talk or a poster.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short paper :The maximum length is 4 pages in the two-column ACM conference format (excluding references). Accepted short papers will be presented as either a short talk or a poster.</span></p></li></ul><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There will be a mixture of oral and poster presentations at the conference. The decision of a poster or an oral presentation will be made by the program committee. Please note that the main difference between short and long papers is in the size of contributions and not in the importance of the contributions. In other words, a paper in eight pages will be expected to have more contribution than one with four pages. Rejected long papers will not be considered for acceptance as short papers, unless the reviewers unanimously believe this is the right decision. Authors are asked to carefully consider the category of each submitted paper.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rebuttal Period</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">During this period (from July 21st to July 25th, 2017), authors will be able to see the reviews and post a short rebuttal addressing any major misinterpretation or error. The rebuttal period will be followed by a discussion period between the reviewers and Senior Program Committee members (not visible to authors). Authors will be notified of the final decision on August 25th, 2017.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online Submission</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For online paper submissions is through Precision Conference: <a href="https://precisionconference.com/~icmi/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://precisionconference.com/~icmi/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Extra material (e.g. videos) up to 40MB can be attached in the same submission website.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission: 12th May 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rebuttal period: July 21st to July 25th</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance: 25th August 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready submission: September 22nd, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference dates: 13th-17th November 2017</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info: <a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfp" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfp</a></span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Conference Information</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_msg" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2017 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 13th and 17th November 2017. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. 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 2017 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, grand challenges (due Jan 13th), workshops (due Feb 22nd), technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations, due May 12th), exhibits and doctoral consortium papers (due July 3rd) and demonstrations (due August 11th). The proceedings of ICMI'2017 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.</span></p><br class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.38;marg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