Information for Authors
Presentations
Oral presentations at ICMI will each be 25 minutes in length including the set-up time and question and answer period. In order to keep the oral presentations on schedule, oral presenters should prepare a talk which does not exceed 20 minutes in length. A laptop projector and audio sound system will be provided.
Poster presentations at ICMI will occur each morning from 9:45 until 11:15. The beginning of each poster session will overlap with the morning coffee break which starts at 9:45 and ends at 10:15. Poster presenters will be provided with a poster board space which is 7 feet 9 inches wide by 4 feet high.
Submissions
The conference submission website is https://precisionconference.com/~icmi/. Use this for all conference submissions. First initiate a new submission in order to submit the abstract (by May 24), then use that submission number to later submit the full materials (by May 24).
The reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names or affiliations in the paper or any clearly identifiable information. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., "Smith [5] approached this problem by....") - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. [Note: if a non-anonymous paper has already been submitted, please re-submit with the identifying information removed.]
Abstract Submission. An abstract for each paper (regular or short) must be submitted by May 24, 2006 (this has been extended due to some problems with the server) - these are not reviewed directly, but used to make the reviewing process more efficient once the full submissions are received. Use the conference submission website.
Paper Submission. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format by May 24, 2006, via the conference submission website.
If there are any problems with the submission website, please contact Yingen Xiong (yxiong@cs.vt.edu).
Submissions must conform to ACM publication format described at the web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. There are two different paper submission categories: regular paper and short paper. The page limit is 8 pages for regular papers and 4 pages for short papers. Authors can have up to 2 extra pages with $100/page charge. The number of pages for the final version (camera ready) must not be less than that of the review version. The results described in the submission must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Papers will be carefully peer reviewed by the program committee. There will be a mixture of oral presentations and poster presentations at the workshop. Both are considered as having equal status in the workshop and in the proceedings - posters are not considered as "second class" acceptances. The decision of a poster or an oral presentation will be made by the program committee.
Demo Submission. A 1-2 page description of the demonstration is required. The format template is the same as for the paper guidelines. The demo description will be included into conference proceedings. Proposals for demonstrations are to be submitted to the demo chair electronically. Email address for submission: xlchen@jdl.ac.cn
Special Sessions. ICMI will organize special sessions to address emergent issues in the multimodal interface research community. Proposals for special sessions (e.g., a panel session) are to be submitted to the special sessions chair electronically. Email address for submission: yxiong@cs.vt.edu
See the Key Dates page for the various submission deadlines.
PhD students who are first author on a long or short paper submission should indicate this at the time of submission (if the submission software system does not ask for this directly, then write "For Doctoral Spotlight Consideration" at the top of the first page of your submission). There will be a Doctoral Spotlight session at the conference where doctoral candidates (including travel support grantees - see below) give short presentations to highlight their research. (If the paper is accepted for an oral presentation, however, that presentation will take precedence.) Students taking part in the Doctoral Spotlight session will receive feedback from the doctoral spotlight committee after the session.
US resident doctoral students interested in travel support can submit a short or long paper as specified above, and then contact Trevor Darrell for instructions to apply for travel funding. Preference for student aid will be given to those with accepted papers, but others will be supported if funds are available. All supported students will be expected to participate in the spotlight session.