JMEADS%BNR.CA@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Jon Meads, J.A.) (11/21/89)
Call for Participation
CHI '90 Workshop on
Multimedia and Multimodal Interface Design
The workshop on multimedia and multimodal interface design is scheduled
as part of the CHI '90 Conference in Seattle, Washington, and will be
held on Sunday and Monday, April 1-2, 1990.
A large number of disparate technologies contribute to an understanding
of how to design a multimedia, multimodal interface. These vary from
the use of vision, gesture and sound to applications, tools for interface
construction, and enabling technologies, such as video disk, and image
processing. The primary objective of the workshop is to integrate what
we presently know of these technologies and consider the areas that need
to be explored for future development of multimedia in the computer
interface.
The following topics will be explored by the participants: the integrated
use of vision, gesture, and sound to interact in an organized dialogue
(modality integration); the use of metaphor and composite screen
paradigms in a multimedia environment; applications that lend themselves
to the use of multimedia, such as electronic books, data bases, and aids
for users with special needs. Five problems are to be addressed by the
participants in connection with the above topic areas: current problems,
future directions, backgrounds and specialties of those in multimedia
R & D, and tools and methodologies.
Attendance at the workshop is by invitation. It is intended that the
workshop will bring together approximately twenty people who have a
background in one or more of the topic areas. Individuals wishing to
participate are requested to submit five copies of a position paper
presenting their views on one of the topic areas. The position paper
should be two to five pages long, double-spaced, and should include a
brief description of the individual's interest in the area. It would be
helpful to the Program Committee to enclose a previously published paper
or technical report authored by the applicant on the topicof the
position paper, however, position papers will be judged on their own
merits. Position papers must be received before February 6, 1990.
Position papers of invited attendees will distributed to the attendees
before the workshop.
The workshop program committee consists of: Meera Blattner (University
of California, Davis, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab);
William Buxton (University of Toronto); Roger Dannenberg
(Carnegie-Mellon); Alistair Edwards (University of York); and
Simon Holland (Aberdeen University). The invitations will be issued by
the Program Committee. The invitees will be expected to actively
participate as speakers, discussants, and summary authors. A workshop
report will be prepared for the SIGCHI Bulletin and invitees are expected
to participate in drafting the report.
A $50 workship fee will be charged to each participant to help defray the
costs of coffee breaks and A/V equipment.
Important dates:
Five copies of the position paper due by February 6, 1990.
Invitations sent out by February 19, 1990.
Agenda and invitee's position papers sent by February 26, 1990
Send position papers to: Meera Blattner, L-540
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, CA 94551
Phone: (415) 422-3505
FAX:(415) 422-8681
Netmail: blattner@lll-crg.llnl.gov