SG06: 6th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

                      http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg06

                            July 23-25 2006
                           Vancouver Canada

Graphics become Smart Graphics when their design and implementation
are grounded in an understanding of human abilities, activities, and
motivations from design experience and the broad spectrum of cognitive
and social sciences.

When knowledge from these diverse fields is combined with new methods,
tools and techniques in AI, HCI and computer graphics, environments
are created that

(1) engage the user and are esthetically satisfying;
(2) participate in human cognition as external or distributed
    representations;
(3) are sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the
    context of the available informational and computational
    resources; and
(4) adapt the form of the output according to a wider set of
    constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and
    motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and
    available interaction devices.

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics brings together people
from the fields of Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial
Intelligence and Graphics Design to build this new and emerging area
of study. A growing interest in visual analytics and interaction
science on the part of applications developers and granting agencies
has led us to co-locate this years conference with the 28th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and the IEEE World Congress
in Computational Intelligence.

SG06 welcomes submissions from computer graphics, HCI & AI researchers
and practitioners, cognitive scientists, artists and graphic designers
interested in a theoretically motivated interdisciplinary approach to
the design of interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays.

It is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer LNCS series,
as in the previous years.

For a full description of the scope of the Symposium, and details of
previous events see the website:

http://www.smartgraphics.org

Contact: Brian Fisher (fisher@cs.ubc.ca)

Submission Categories:

Full papers
Posters
System demonstrations and artwork


Important Dates:

March 24, 2006 (submission deadline)
April 14, 2006 (notification of results)
April 28, 2006 (camera ready copy due)

July 23-25      (Symposium)

(between the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence, July
16-21 and the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
July 26-29, both in Vancouver)

ORGANIZERS:

Andreas Butz (University of Munich, Germany)
Brian Fisher (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Antonio Krueger (Universitzy of Muenster, Germany)
Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

COMMITEE:

Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
William Bares (Millsaps College)
Marc Cavazza (Teeside University)
Marc Christie (Université de Nantes)
Sarah Diamond (Ontario College of  Art and Design)
Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
Sid Fels (University of British Columbia)
Knut Hartmann (University of Magdeburg)
Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab)
Shigeru Owada (University of Tokyo)
W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design)
Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg)
Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg))
Stefan Schlechtweg (University of Magdeburg)
Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich)
Sha Xinwei (Concordia University)
Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento)
Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)