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AMDIT 2008 (http://aria.asu.edu/amdit08)
1st International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and
Interactive Television
in conjunction with Ambi-Sys 08 (http://ambi-sys.org/)
Quebec City, Canada
February 11-14 2008
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: ACM SIGCHI
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: September 30, 2007
Author Notification: November 15, 2007
Camera Ready Due: December 15, 2007
The International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive
Television aims at fostering interdisciplinary discussions and
research in all aspects related to the data management challenges
associated with the design of ambient media delivery and user aware
interactive television systems.
Through new interactive features, television is becoming a central
hub for entertainment, communication, and sharing. Instead of old,
push-based broadcasting to set-top-boxes, new pull-based,
interactive services and tighter integration with other audio/visual
entertainment devices enable ambient access to tv programming.
AMDIT-08 workshop focuses on the data management challenges
associated with the design of ambient media delivery and user aware
interactive television systems, to make television programmes
available and easily accessible in multiple contexts, through
diverse media devices.
Papers focusing on data information extraction and storage,
classification, and recommendation are specifically encouraged.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
** Video content extraction and description
** Content indexing and storage
** Clustering , classification and genre recognition
** User modelling, personalization and adaptive user interfaces techniques
** Tagging and recommendation
** Cross media integration
with the focus on audiovisual media and television programmes.
In addition to being published along with the Ambi-sys08 proceedings,
the workshop proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Authors are invited to submit full papers
(at most 10 pages long). Selection will be based on originality and
contribution to the field. Manuscripts must be in English, in two
column format and in 11 point font. Each paper should include the
names of all authors and full contact information of the
corresponding author. All submissions must be in pdf file format.
An electronic version of the full paper should be submitted by
September 30, 2007 by email to mlsapino[at]di[dot]unito[dot]it AND
to msapino[at]imap1[dot]asu[dot]edu.
Steering Committee: Marina Geymonat(Telecom Italia - Torino- Italy)
Roberto Rossetto (Rai Teche - Torino - Italy)
Maria Luisa Sapino (Universita' di Torino- Italy
and Arizona State University -
Tempe- USA)
Program Chair: Maria Luisa Sapino (Universita' di Torino and
Arizona State University)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Liliana Ardissono (Universita' di Torino , Italy)
Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA)
Pablo Cesar (CWI, Netherlands)
Lei Chen (Hong Kong Univ.of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany)
Mehmet Donderler (Turkcell, Turkey)
Ombretta Gaggi (Universita' di Padova , Italy)
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA)
Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Sean McNee (Attenex Corporation, Seattle, USA)
Alberto Messina (Rai CRIT, Torino)
Antonio Picariello (Universita' Federico II , Napoli, Italy)
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas, USA)
Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rossana Simeoni (Telecom Italia, Torino, Italy)
Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University, USA)
Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey)