The Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI’06) will take place in Banff, Alberta, Canada, during November 2-4, 2006, at the beautiful Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. The theme of the conference is multimodal collaboration through different platforms and applications. The main aim of ICMI’06 is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction and systems. The conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including distilling a roadmap for future research and commercial success. We invite interested parties and experts from academia, industry, and government to actively participate in the conference.

ICMI’06 will feature a main conference with keynote speakers, plenary sessions for technical paper presentations and discussion, a doctoral spotlight paper session highlighting top student research, poster sessions, panel discussions, and demonstrations of state-of-the-art multimodal concepts and systems. To further emphasize the theme of ICMI’06, the conference is co-located with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’06). A 20% discount for both conferences is available for cross-registrants. The third day of ICMI will feature invited plenaries, technical papers, panels, and special sessions on collaborative multimodal interaction and other emerging CSCW-related topics to stimulate discussion and interaction between both research communities.

The ICMI'06 conference represents the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces. These new interfaces are especially well suited for interpreting natural communication and activity patterns in real-world environments. Their emergence represents a radical departure from previous computing, and is rapidly transforming the nature of human-computer interaction by creating more natural, expressively powerful, flexible and robust means of interacting with computers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Multimodal input and output interfaces

• Multimodal meeting analysis and meeting spaces

• Fusion techniques and hybrid architectures

• Processing of language and action patterns

• Gaze and vision-based interfaces

• Speech and conversational interfaces

• Pen-based interfaces

• Haptic interfaces

• Cognitive modeling of users

• AI techniques and adaptive multimodal interfaces

• Multi-biometric interfaces

• Multimodal-multisensor interfaces

• Interfaces for attentive & intelligent environments

• Mobile, tangible and virtual/augmented multimodal interfaces

• Distributed/collaborative multimodal interfaces

• Universal access interfaces

• Tools and system infrastructure issues for designing multimodal interfaces

• Evaluation of multimodal interfaces

Paper Submissions: Contributors are invited to electronically submit regular papers (up to 8 pages in length), short papers (up to 4 pages in length), or demo proposals (1-2 page descriptions). We are also encouraging proposals for special sessions. See the Info for Authors page for submission details.

Outstanding Paper Awards: To recognize excellence in research, outstanding paper awards will be made at the conference for both regular and student full technical papers. A committee that includes the program chairs and select technical committee members will judge the papers.

Doctoral Spotlight Session and doctoral student travel support: Funds are expected from NSF to support participation of doctoral candidates at ICMI 2006, and a spotlight session is planned to showcase ongoing thesis work. See the Info for Authors page for submission details.

Keynote speakers: Herbert Clark, Sile O'Modhrain, and Ted Warburton (more info here)

Click here for a copy of the ICMI 2006 Call For Papers

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