Connectionists: Invitation and call for abstracts for VCCA2020 - Computational Audiology

[Yağmur Güçlütürk]

Dear List,

It is our pleasure to send out this Save the date and call for abstracts
for the *first Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology* (VCCA) to be
held on *June 19, 2020*!

In these times of social distancing, we intend to use the opportunities
modern communication technology offers to bring researchers from all over
the world together in a virtual conference setting. What better topic than
the combination of audiology — the primary sense humans use for
communication — and AI/computation — an advanced means by which we try to
model and make sense of the world?

We have subdivided this broad topic into:

   - Computational models
   - Machine learning for audiology
   - AI for auditory implants
   - e-Audiology (connected hearing health care)
   - AI & Music (for hearing impaired people)

Our central mission is to improve (access to) hearing healthcare for more
than 450 million hearing impaired people worldwide. The target audience for
this conference is young researchers that wish to present their work and
ideas. We offer a podium to receive feedback from peers and to get mentored
by senior researchers. The choice for a virtual conference means:

   - There will be no participation fee
   - We can more easily reach out to research groups in AI and Audiology
   worldwide.

There is a *young scientist award* for the best contribution to encourage
input from young scientists.

*Format*

All presentations and discussions will be recorded and together with the
submitted abstracts made freely accessible via our website
<https://computationalaudiology.com/>. We would like to take advantage of
the virtual aspects of this conference by creating sessions that consist of
a mixture of different talk and discussion formats and distribute time
slots over a 24 hour period. We provide the opportunity for researchers and
research groups to submit one-minute videos explaining their work, which
will be placed on the conference website. We also offer the opportunity to
submit links to research group websites and announcements of webinars to be
placed on the conference website. Last but not least, we will encourage
social interaction by providing virtual “coffee breaks” and other social
activities.

*Abstract submission*

Abstracts of 300+/- words in length will be accepted online and must
include Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions (click this link
<https://computationalaudiology.com/ai-speech-recognition-apps-for-hearing-impaired-and-deaf/>,
for an example).

Submissions must include an e-mail address for all
co-presenters/co-authors, and we strongly recommend the inclusion of a
2-minute ignite style <http://www.ignitetalks.io/> video (here on this page
is a 2-minute example <https://computationalaudiology.com/vcca2020-program/>
 by Prof Barbour).

The link to the portal to submit your abstract online will be available at
https://computationalaudiology.com/vcca2020-call-for-abstracts/ on May 15,
2020.

The deadline for abstract submission is *May 31* (we’ll try to upload
abstract starting May 15).

Notification of abstract acceptance will be *June 5.*

Note: If you forward this message, please add
vcca2020 at computationalaudiology.com in cc, so that we can track who already
received our invitation.



*Further information*

https://computationalaudiology.com/

https://computationalaudiology.com/event/virtual-conference-on-computational-audiology/

We will regularly update the conference website with new information. Feel
free to send questions or suggestions to vcca2020 at computationalaudiology.com

Kind regards,

*the Organizing committee*

Yağmur Güçlütürk

Peter van Hengel

Alex Tichter

Jan-Willem Wasmann



-- 
Dr. Yağmur Güçlütürk
Assistant Professor at Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Department
<https://www.ru.nl/cai/>, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and
Behaviour <http://www.ru.nl/donders>, Radboud University
<http://www.ru.nl/english>, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Email: y.gucluturk at donders.ru.nl
Telephone: +310243611175
Postal address: Postbus 9104 6500 HE Nijmegen Netherlands
Visiting address: SP B 00.78A Montessorilaan 3 6525 HR Nijmegen Netherlands
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