About ICMI

The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) is an annual ACM-sponsored conference that promotes research 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.

The first ICMI conference was in Beijing, China in 1996. Independently, a series of workshops on Percepual User Interfaces (PUI) began in 1997 in Banff, Canada. In 2003, these two meetings merged into a single annual conference, incorporating both communities and keeping the ICMI name. The complete list of ICMI and PUI meetings can be found here.

An advisory board maintains responsibility for planning and running the conference.

To contact ICMI, send an email to icmi-info(at)acm.org.