- General Chairs:
- Francis Quek,
- Jie Yang,
- Program Chairs:
- Dominic Massaro,
- Abeer Alwan,
- Timothy J. Hazen
Multimodal interaction is a domain of research that is based on the intuition that humans bring a broad bandwidth of interactive resources to bear in our interactions with other people and with our environment (and computers). It is a rich ground for interdisciplinary research that spans the detection and tracking of human behavior, the production of visual, physical, and audible signals for human consumption, the system architectures, approaches and theories for integrating these varied inputs and outputs, and the experimental methods and evaluations for such multimodal interfaces. As such, multimodal interfaces invite insights from such fields as human-computer interaction, spoken language understanding, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, social psychology, computer-supported cooperative work.These proceedings include the papers accepted for presentation at the Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'06) held in Banff, Canada on the November 2-4, 2006. These proceedings are published by ACM.The papers included in these proceedings were selected from 102 contributions with 81 full papers submitted by researchers worldwide. A full double-blind review process was employed. Each paper was allocated for review to four members of the Program Committee, with one serving as the primary reviewer. There were 104 reviewers, each of whom reviewed at least one paper. The process yielded 18 acceptances for oral presentations, and 22 for poster presentations. These papers represent some of the latest developments in the research of multimodal interfaces.
Weight, weight, don't tell me
Remember the "Internet's firstborn," Ron Lussier's dancing baby from 1996? Other than a vague sense of repeated gyrations, no one can recall any of the movements in particular. Why is that? While that animation was ground-breaking in many respects, to ...
Movement and music: designing gestural interfaces for computer-based musical instruments
The concept of body-mediated or embodied interaction, of the coupling of interface and actor, has become increasingly relevant within the domain of HCI. With the reduced size and cost of a wide variety of sensor technologies and the ease with which they ...
Mixing virtual and actual
People often communicate with a mixture of virtual and actual elements. On the telephone, my sister and I and what we say are actual, even though our voices are virtual. In the London Underground, the warning expressed in the recording "Stand clear of ...
- Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces