HCM 2006 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 29, 2006 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nicu/HCM2006 CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 4, 2006 This multidisciplinary workshop will focus on the multimedia aspects of Human-Centered Computing and introduce key concepts, discuss theoretical frameworks and technical approaches, challenges, research opportunities, and open issues in multimedia interaction, content analysis, and content production. We invite researchers and designers from various disciplines to submit original technical contributions and provocative position statements to explore and define ways in which Human-Centered frameworks can transform computing. In order to break away from the traditional workshop format, a strong emphasis will be placed on discussions leading to specific goals set by the workshop organizers. We seek technical contributions and position statements in the three main human activities in multimedia: interaction, content analysis, and content production. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Multimodal interaction (body, gaze, gesture, audio, speech) for the human-computer-interaction and the computer-in-the-human-interaction loops; * Experiential and affective issues in multimedia; * Interactive multimedia search; * Machine learning with a human-in-the loop; * User, context, and task modeling in multimedia systems; * Multimedia ubiquitous computing; * Human interaction modeling from multimedia; * Social network analysis from multimedia; * Cultural and social issues in multimedia modeling; * Multimedia collaboration; * Interactive storytelling WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop will be divided into three sessions (interaction, content analysis, and content production). Each session will consist of two brief position statement presentations and an extended group discussion. In addition, there will be a panel session and a technical session in which authors with technical papers will present their results in poster format. In order to encourage active participation, the group discussions will be guided based on the issues raised by the selected papers, so the goal is to go beyond presentation of technical results, to a critical analysis of the main issues defining this emerging field from the perspective of the authors and workshop attendees. IMPORTANT DATES July 4, 2006: Submission of full paper August 2, 2006: Notification of acceptance August 15, 2006: Camera-ready full paper ORGANIZERS Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Alejandro Jaimes, FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan Nicu Sebe, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Please see the website for details: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nicu/HCM2006 NOTE: Separate from the workshop, there will be a special issue on Human-Centered Computing in IEEE Computer Magazine (to be published in 2007). Submissions to the magazine will undergo a separate review process (there will be a separate call for papers with a submission deadline after the notification of acceptance for the workshop). However, authors who submit to the HCM workshop and later submit to the special issue will have the benefit of additional comments to prepare their magazine contributions.