October 20th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Organizing committee

Michael Lew (General Co-Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Nicu Sebe (General Co-Chair), ISIS Group, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Erwin Bakker (Program Chair), LIACS Media Lab, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Thomas S. Huang (Executive Chair), Beckman Institute, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Contact hci2007@liacs.nl about any questions

Deadlines

July 13, 2007: Submission of full paper
August 6, 2007: Notification of acceptance
August 14, 2007: Camera-ready full paper
October 20, 2007: Workshop

Human computer interaction (HCI) is one of the foremost challenges of our society. New paradigms for interacting with computers are being developed which will define the 21st century and enable the world to communicate and interact effortlessly and intuitively.

In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they will need to understand their environment through vision and auditory input. Moreover, HCI systems should learn how to adaptively and intelligently respond depending on the context.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers whose work is related to human computer interaction. We are soliciting original contributions which address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human computer interaction including, but not limited to:

* New paradigms in HCI
* Affective detection and recognition
* Smart interfaces
* Human motion tracking
* Gesture recognition
* Multimedia data modeling and visualization
* Multimodal event detection and recognition
* Human motion and gesture recognition
* HCI issues in image/video retrieval
* Learning in HCI
* Input and interaction techniques
* Perceptual user interfaces
* Wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI
* Intelligent Virtual Environments

Authors should preferably use the paper submission web system at

http://press.liacs.nl/hci2007/submit.html

(no longer than 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style in English).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings will be published by the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Its preferable if the submitted papers do not have the author names within the PDF file to allow for double-blind reviewing.

Program Committee

Kiyo Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Erwin Bakker, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Margrit Betke, Boston University, USA
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Edward Chang, Google Research, China
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP Research, Switzerland
Rana Kaliouby, MIT, USA
Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, USA
Stefan Kopp, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Qiong Liu, FXPAL, USA
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University, UK
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Sun, Nanjing University, China
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jordi Vitria, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Guangyou Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research Labs, USA
Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Research, USA

Sponsors

IEEE

Dutch National Science Foundation - NWO

Leiden University

University of Amsterdam

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BSIK/BRICKS/FOCUS

MUSCLE - Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation, and Learning