Connectionists: ICMI 18 Call for Participation

[Ian Oakley]

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International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018

https://icmi.acm.org/2018/

Call for Participation

Early-bird registration: Sep 14, 2018, ACM members: $575, students: $375.

Regular registration: Oct 13, 2018, ACM members: $675, students: $475.

Onsite registration: ACM members: $725, students: $525.

Full details and pricing:
https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=registration

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ICMI 2018 Call for Participation

The 20th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018)
will be held in Boulder, Colorado. 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.

The ICMI 2018 program includes an exciting set of events and speakers.
Highlights include

Keynotes:
- A multimodal approach to understanding human vocal expressions and beyond
by Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan
- Using Technology for Health and Wellbeing by Dr. Mary Czerwinski
- Reinforcing, reassuring, and roasting: The forms and functions of the
human smile by Prof. Paula M. Niedenthal

Plenary Paper Sessions:
- Six plenary oral sessions with 28 technical full and short papers
- Two poster sessions with 35 posters

Tutorials:
- Multimodal-Multisensor Behavioral Analytics: Going Deeper into
Human-Centered Design by Prof. Sharon Oviatt
- Deep Learning for Multimodal and Multisensorial Interaction by Prof.
Björn W. Schuller

Workshops:
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction (MHFI)
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT)
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data (MCPMD)
- Human-Habitat for Health (H3)
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine
Interaction (MA3HMI)

Grand Challenges:
- The ICMI Eating Analysis & Tracking Challenge (ICMI 2018 EAT)
- 6th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW)

Panels:
- Panel on Future Challenges for Multimodal Interaction in Groups
- Panel: Future roadmap to multimodal research

Other Events:
- Doctoral Consortium
- Late Breaking Papers
- Demos/Exhibits

There is also available funding to Broaden Participation under a SIGCHI
Conference Development Fund - submissions due by 20th Sept:

https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cdf

Keep up to date with the program as it is finalized online:

https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=schedule


Come join us in Boulder in October 16-20, 2018!

Sincerely,

ICMI 2018 co-chairs

Sidney D'Mello (CU Boulder)

Stefan Scherer (USC)

Panayiotis (Panos) Georgiou (USC)
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