Subject: CfP: IMC2000 - INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE ASSISTANCE and MOBILE MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:48:06 +0100 From: imc2000 ====================================================================== First Call for Papers IMC2000 INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE ASSISTANCE AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany -- November 9-10, 2000 http://www.rostock.igd.fhg.de/~imc2000 Submission Deadline: July 17, 2000 ====================================================================== Aims and Scope ============== Computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, moving from the desktop into the infrastructure of our everyday life. They begin to augment and influence the way we interact with our personal environment - the (physical) entities that we operate upon in order to achieve our daily goals. Intelligent appliances, ultra-portable PDAs and wearable devices provide electronic assistance for environments and usage situations, where computer support up to now has not been available. For the first time, a true physical and cognitive integration of computer support into the everyday business of the real-world becomes possible. Therefore, the most important aspect of future human-computer interaction is the way, computers assist us in efficiently managing our personal environment. Fundamental challenges for providing such assistance are: o Enabling the electronic assistant to understand the user's goals and preferences as well as the individual strategies employed by the user for achieving these goals. o Sensing and understanding the user's personal environment and the ways the current environment influences his activities and strategies. o Providing natural (anthropomorphic) interaction by supporting novel input technologies as well as tailored information visualization techniques. o Making this support available in a finely dispersed computing infrastructure, consisting of stationary and mobile devices networked with a wide range of wireless communication facilities. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in all these areas of personal assistance and interactive mobile information systems. The workshop will provide a forum for the discussion of the individual problem areas from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, supporting cross-fertilization and problem awareness between the different research areas of interactive personal and mobile assistance. Thematic focus ============== Topics of interest for IMC2000 include, but are not limited to: Interaction & Visualization: o User interface strategies and visualization concepts for personal assistance based on heterogeneous and mobile infrastructures. o Multimodal and anthropomorphic interfaces for personal and mobile assistants. o Imaging, visualization, and presentation in distributed and mobile environments; integrated use of alternative presentation media. Assistance Architectures & Models: o Adaptive assistance architectures for heterogeneous, dynamic, and resource-limited system infrastructures and information appliances. o Environment sensing technologies, situation and location-aware computing. o Modeling concepts for situation and task-dependent assistive support (workflow approaches, cognitive task models). o Agent-based approaches to personal assistance and task delegation. Data Management: o Data and object models for mobile and ubiquitous information systems and appliances. o Data management for mobile, interactive graphics and multimedia applications; transaction, security, and replication concepts. Experiences & Usability: o Interactive mobile assistants for industrial, business, and private use: case studies, design concepts, experiences. o Usability aspects for interactive assistance and mobile applications After IMC96 and IMC98 being held in Rostock during February 1996 and November 1998, IMC2000 will be the third workshop spanning the gap between Interactive Graphics, Intelligent Assistance, and system technologies for Mobile Computing. IMC2000 is jointly organized by the DFG research group MoVi ("Mobile Visualization") and the BMBF focus project EMBASSI ("Electronic Multimedia Operating and Service Assistance"). In addition to contributions from national and international research and development, IMC2000 encourages the recently started German focus projects in the area of "Human-Technology-Interaction in the Knowledge Society", funded by the German ministries BMBF and BMWi, to actively participate by giving an overview on first project results and by promoting discussion and interaction between the various projects. Submissions =========== Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts / position papers (~ 4 pages) on completed research or work in progress to the conference secretariat (see below for address). Electronic submission by Email is preferred. The workshop proceedings will be published by the Neuer Hochschulschriftverlag. Important Dates =============== - Jul. 17, 2000: Deadline for Extended Abstracts - Sep. 18, 2000: Notification of Acceptance - Oct. 16, 2000: Final Version Due - Nov. 09, 2000: IMC2000 Program Committee ================= H.-J. Ackermann, FH Juelich, D U. Baumgarten, TU Munich, D G. Bente, Koeln Univ., D K. Brodlie, Leeds Univ., UK J.F. Buford, GTE Laboratories, USA B. Burg, Motorola Labs Paris, F C.H. Cap, Rostock Univ., D N. Davies, Lancaster Univ., UK & Sony Research Labs, USA J.L. Encarnacao, TU Darmstadt, D S. Fischer, TU Darmstadt, D B. Freisleben, Siegen Univ., D N. Gerfelder, ZGDV Darmstadt, D R. Guedj, INT, F N. Guenther, ZGDV Rostock, D T. Herfet, Grundig, D A. Heuer, Rostock Univ., D M. Hollick, GMD-IPSI Mobile, D Ch. Hornung, Fraunhofer IGD, D T. Kirste, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, D K. Meyer-Wegener, TU Dresden, D K.-F. Kraiss, RWTH Aachen, D H. Mueller, Dortmund Univ., D S. Mueller, Fraunhofer IGD Darmstadt, D B.-O. Schneider, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA H. Schumann, Rostock Univ., D P. Slavik, TH Prag, CZ B. Urban, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, D H. Wandke, Humboldt-University Berlin, D W. Wahlster, DFKI Saarbrücken, D O. Zukunft, BMW AG, D Supporting Organizations ======================== - ACM (pending) - GI FG 2.5.1 (pending) - GI FA 4.1 (pending) - ITG FA 2.2 Organization ============ Conference Co-Chairs: Andreas Heuer, Rostock University Thomas Kirste, Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock IMC2000 Conference Secretariat: Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics J.-Jungius-Str. 11, D-18059 Rostock, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 381 4024-110 Fax: +49 (0) 381 4024-199 Email: imc2000@rostock.igd.fhg.de http://www.rostock.igd.fhg.de/~imc2000 ====================================================================== --- IMC'2000 Conference Secretariat Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics J.-Jungius-Str. 11, D-18059 Rostock, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 381 4024-110 Fax: +49 (0) 381 4024-199 Email: imc2000@rostock.igd.fhg.de http://www.egd.igd.fhg.de/~imc2000