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W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction
Update
The call for position papers is now closed. The list of accepted papers is available, as well as the workshop agenda and the list of participants.
Call for Participation
19/20 July, 2004
Sophia Antipolis, France
With financial support from the European Commission's IST Programme under the MWeb project
Contents
- What does Multimodal mean for the Web?
- Scope of the Workshop
- Registration
- Important Dates
- Organizing Committee
- Workshop Details
What does Multimodal mean for the Web?
W3C's work on multimodal has the potential to transform how we interact with applications, creating many new opportunities for developers:
- In your hand: portable access to multimedia communication, news and entertainment services with the convenience of speech for text entry
- In your car: integrated dashboard system offering hands free navigation, entertainment, news, and communications applications
- In your living room: remote control of your home entertainment center's integrated multimedia player / recorder for television, radio, music, video and games
- In your office: choose how you interact with your computer, using a pen, keyboard, and spoken commands
Scope of the Workshop
As the W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity is entering its third year, much progress has been made defining the W3C MMI framework. The W3C Workshop on Multimodal Interaction will an opportunity for you to discuss W3C's current plans and to provide feedback and suggestions for future work.
We are also looking for feedback from multimodal user communities that are currently less well represented in the W3C Multimodal work (e.g. automotive industry/telematics, home entertainment industry, healthcare, aerospace and manufacturing) as well as feedback and input from the Multimodal research community.
Topics considered in scope for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Running software demonstrating the state of the art in multimodal systems
- Use of multimodal interaction in different industry sectors (automobile, mobile, ...)
- Declarative dialogue management languages
- Multimodal authoring approaches
- Interaction management (Event driven state machines, Task/Plan based interaction, Interaction history, Learning mechanisms)
- Interpreting input involving multiple modalities
- Dynamic adaptation to device/user/environment
- Tactile modalities and haptics
- Supplemental modalities (Gaze, Facial expressions, Body language, Prosody)
- Distributed architectures for multimodal applications
- Usability studies of multimodal applications
Registration
Although the Workshop is public, it is restricted to 60 places. Each organization can provide at most two attendees.
Position papers are required in order to participate in this workshop (except for W3C team members). Each organization or individual wishing to participate must submit a position paper explaining their interest in the workshop no later than 11 June. The intent is to make sure that participants have an active interest in the area, and that the workshop will benefit from their presence.
Send papers (in valid XHTML/HTML or PDF) to the archived mailing list: team-mmi-ws-submissions@w3.org.
All position papers will be available from the workshop Web site. The workshop Web site will be public, so position papers and slides must be suitable for public dissemination. Speaker slides will also be available at the Web site after the workshop. There will not be printed proceedings.
To attend, you must register by filling out the registration form. The URI for the registration form will be sent to you after your position paper is accepted.
There will be no participation fee.
Important Dates
- June 11 [update: deadline extended to June 16]: Deadline for position papers for the workshop program (1 to 5 pages - send to team-mmi-ws-submissions@w3.org).
- June 21/23: Deadline for Hotel reservations
- 5 July: Workshop program available
- 12 July: Registration closed
- 19-20 July: Workshop on Multimodal Interaction
Program Committee
- Program Chairs
- Deborah Dahl (Conversational Technologies), Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon)
- Program Committee Members
- Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP
- Laila Dybkjær, University of Southern Denmark
- Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA
- Max Froumentin, W3C
- Michael Johnston, AT&T
- Scott McGlashan, HP
- Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh
- Georg Niklfeld, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
- David Sadek, France Telecom
- Pam Sanford, Boeing
- Balaji Prasad, EDS
- TV Raman, IBM
- Kuansan Wang, Microsoft
Workshop details
VENUE
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
World Wide Web Consortium
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
2004, Route des Lucioles, BP 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex France
The workshop will be held at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Sophia Antipolis is a technology parc situated on the French Riviera, close to Cannes, Nice and the Italian border. It easily reachable from Nice International Airport (20 minutes by car). Direct flights to Nice from the US (Delta Airlines from New York) and most major airports in Europe are available. Hotel rooms at various price categories will be reserved and proposed to the participants.
Accommodation
Here are some suggested hotels for your stay during the workshop - we highly recommend making your reservations on time, since July is a very busy period on the French Riviera:
- Hotel Novotel ***
Les Lucioles 1
290, rue Fedor Dostoievski
06560 Valbonne Sophia Antipolis
Tel : +33 4 92 38 72 38
Fax : +33 4 93 95 80 12
Comments: 86€ single room or double room + breakfast 12€ + taxe 0.80€.
A block of 20 rooms have been blocked until 28 June 2004.
Rates and availability will not be guaranted after 28 June 2004.
Please contact the hotel directly and mention "W3C" when making your reservation. - Hotel Mercure ***
Rue Albert Caquot
06560 Valbonne Sophia Antipolis
Tel : +33 4 92 96 04 04
Fax : +33 4 92 96 05 05
email : hmercure@dial-up.com
Comments: 90€ single or double room + breakfast 12€ + taxe 0.80€.
A block of 30 rooms have been blocked until 28 June 2004.
Rates and availability will not be guaranted after 28 June 2004.
Please contact the hotel directly and mention "W3C" when making your reservation. - Hotel Ibis **
Rue Albert Caquot
06560 Valbonne
Tel: +33 4 93 65 30 60
Fax : +33 4 93 95 83 99
Comments: 67€ single or double room + breakfast 6€ + taxe 0.50€.
A block of 10 rooms have been blocked until 28 June 2004.
Rates and availability will not be guaranted after 28 June 2004.
Please contact the hotel directly and mention "W3C" when making your reservation. - Hotel Le Relais **
Les Bouillides
3725, Route des Dolines
06410 BIOT
Tel: +33 4 93 95 84 82
Fax: +33 4 92 96 10 50
Comments: 46€ single and 49€ double room + breakfast 6.50€ + taxe 0.45€.
A block of 10 rooms have been blocked until 28 June 2004.
Rates and availability will not be guaranted after 28 June 2004.
Please contact the hotel directly and mention "W3C" when making your reservation. - Hotel Mediathel ***
Route des Crètes
06560 Valbonne
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 68 00
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 65 43 41
Comments: 89€ single and 105€ double room with breakfast + taxe 0.80€.
No block has been reserved. - Hotel
Omega ***
Entrée des Lucioles 1
49, rue Ludwig Van Beethoven
06560 Valbonne
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 96 07 07
Fax: +33 (0)4 92 96 03 05
Comments: 79€ single and 96€ double room + breakfast 11€ + taxe 0.80€.
No block has been reserved.
Note that these hotels are in Sophia Antipolis: they are a good choice if
you want to be close to the conference location.
A bus will be available the 2 days of the meeting between the hotels and
INRIA.
Should you need any further assistance for the hotel reservations, please contact Alexandra Lavirotte (alex@w3.org) or Coralie Mercier (coralie@w3.org)
Getting There
Max Froumentin, Dave Raggett, Philipp Hoschka
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