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18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016),
November 12–16, 2016,
Tokyo, Japan
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Message from the Chairs
Welcome to Tokyo and to the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2016. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. This year, ICMI focuses on machine learning for multimodal interaction as a special topic of interest. ICMI 2016 features a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, companies exhibits, tutorials, grand challenges, and doctoral consortium. It is followed by a day with workshops.
The ICMI 2016 call for long and short papers attracted a record number of 144 paper submissions (78 in the long category and 66 in the short category). The papers were reviewed by a program committee composed of 25 Senior Program Committee (SPC) members and 197 technical reviewers. A special emphasis was put forward this year to increase the quality of each review. Before the rebuttal process, SPC members took the time to revise each review and send follow-up directions to reviewers if needed. During the rebuttal process, the authors had the opportunity to clarify any misunderstandings and respond to questions raised in the reviews and meta-reviews. After the rebuttal phase, the SPC members discussed actively each paper, including the author rebuttal. The whole review process was extended by two weeks when compared to previous years, and closely supervised by ICMI 2016 Program Chairs. As a result, 24 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 31 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The acceptance rate is 17% for oral presentations and 38% overall, for short and long papers combined.
The Sustained Accomplishment Award in ICMI is presented to a scientist who has made innovative and long lasting contributions to our field. The award acknowledges an individual who has demonstrated vision in shaping the field, with a sustained record of research that has influenced the work of others. This year’s award is presented to Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany). He will give a plenary talk titled “Help me if you can: Towards Multiadaptive Interaction Platforms”.
This year, the conference will host three invited keynote speakers. They are:
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Understanding people by tracking their word use, Prof. James W. Pennebaker, The University of Texas at Austin (USA),
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Embodied Media: Expanding Human Capacity via Virtual Reality and Telexistence, Prof. Susumu Tachi, The University of Tokyo (Japan),
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Learning to Generate Images and Their Descriptions, Prof. Richard Zemel, The University of Toronto, (Canada).
The main ICMI conference program includes an exciting Demonstration session co-chaired by Ronald Poppe (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Ryo Ishii (NTT, Japan) that will showcase innovative implementations, systems, and technologies that incorporate multimodal interaction. In addition, the Demonstration session this year will feature a Multimodal Resources track to showcase novel corpora, annotation tools and schemes. The number of submission for the Demonstration session was 25, and 17 papers were accepted. The Demonstration session will also include demonstrations that accompany accepted main track papers.
A number of satellite events will be held along with the main conference. A new satellite event introduced at ICMI this year is a tutorial. The lecturer is Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency. He will teach fundamental concepts related to multimodal machine learning on November 12th.
The Doctoral Consortium is by now a traditional ICMI satellite event which takes place on the first day of the conference and extends our commitment to the next generation of researchers. This year, the event is co-chaired by Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Samer Al Moubayed (KTH, Sweden). In this special session, a highly-accomplished mentor team and selected senior PhD students gather around a round table to discuss research plans and progress of each student. From among 16 applications, 14 students were accepted. The accepted students receive a travel grant and registration waiver to attend both the Doctoral Consortium event, and the main conference. The organizers thank the U.S. National Science Foundation, the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG), and conference sponsors for the financial support that makes this possible.
The Multimodal Grand Challenges were introduced to ICMI in 2012. This year's challenges are co-chaired by Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge, UK) and Mohammad Soleymani (University of Geneva, Switzerland), and include the Fourth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW). The Grand Challenge event will be presented on November 12th, and an overview and poster session will take place during the main conference.
The ICMI workshop program was co-chaired this year by Julien Epps (The University of New South Wales, Australia) and Gabriel Skantze (KTH, Sweden). The workshops this year cover a variety of topics around multimodal interaction, such as embodied agents, VR/AR, social signals, and multi-sensory systems. Seven workshops will be held after the main conference on November 16th. They are: the 1st Workshop on Embodied Interaction with Smart Environments, the 2nd International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI@ICMI2016), the 2nd Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Companion Systems (ERM4CT 2016), the Workshop on Multimodal Virtual and Augmented Reality - MVAR 2016, the Workshop on Social learning and multimodal interaction for designing artificial agents, the 1st Workshop on Multi-Sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction, and the Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI).
Outstanding paper awards have also been a tradition at ICMI, including both Outstanding Paper award and Outstanding Student Paper award. The Program Chairs considered the top-ranked paper submissions based on the reviews and meta-reviews and identified a set of nominations for the awards. A paper award committee was created with internationally renowned researchers in multimodal interaction. The committee reviewed the nominated papers carefully and selected the recipients of these awards, which will be announced at the banquet. ICMI is also continuing the tradition of promoting strong and in-depth reviews by giving Recognition for Excellence in Reviewing awards.
A separate committee was formed to evaluate the nominees for the Sustained Accomplishment Award (previously mentioned in this message). We would like to thank the members of this committee: Julien Epps, Matthew Turk and Jie Yang.
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