*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
1st Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Analysis of User Behaviour and  
Interactions (MAUBI) held in conjunction with
the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008)
Berkeley, California, on Dec. 15-17, 2008.
http://www.lifl.fr/~martinej/ISM2008workshop/cfp.html

** July 15, 2008: Electronic paper submission deadline
** September 8, 2008: Notification of paper acceptance
** September 19, 2008: Camera ready version submission deadline

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers who investigate and  
develop techniques to analyze multimedia data for understanding users  
actions, behaviour, and interactions with others or with their  
environment, in the context of real applications such as security,  
marketing, and Web TV. The scope of study includes, but is not limited  
to:
     * motion detection,
     * foreground/background categorization,
     * human detection, tracking, and matching,
     * trajectory analysis,
     * specific event detection (e.g. door opening, person collapsing,  
crowd panic, etc.),
     * etc.

Besides, the workshop aims at investigating the legal and ethical  
requirements necessary to design systems and applications. We  
encourage submissions of papers that deal with the social  
acceptability of these ambient intelligence technologies (multi-modal  
behaviour capture). The social study would guarantee the success of  
the multimodal interfaces and their implementations. The workshop is  
interested in how to formulate recommendations that will be presented  
to the policy makers (private and public).

Organizers

     * Jean Martinet, University of Lille, France
     * Nacim Ihaddadene, University of Lille, France
     * Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow, UK