Special sessions
Student Poster Session (NEW)
MLMI'08 will feature a student poster session, in order to give students the opportunity to present their ongoing work and latest results at MLMI. Posters should be in portrait format and not greater than 90cm x 150cm (width x height). Please submit your poster and an abstract electronically at: http://openconf.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi2008. Poster submissions will undergo a light review, and their abstracts will appear in a separate booklet that will be distributed at MLMI and will be available online.
Important dates
- Submission of student posters:
- Sunday, 15 June 2008
- Notification of acceptance:
- Monday, 30 June 2008
User requirements and evaluation of multimodal meeting assistants/browsers
The development cycles of multimodal meeting assistants or browsers (in short, MABs) comprise, in theory, a series of requirement-elicitation / design / development / evaluation stages, in which results from previous evaluations are considered as requirements for the next cycle. Research on interactive tools that facilitate access to multimodal meeting recordings (i.e. meeting browsers), or tools that enhance participation to an ongoing meeting (i.e. meeting assistants), has now reached the level of maturity which allows in-depth reflection on the requirements elicitation and evaluation methods, as well as on the analysis of their results.
Topics
We invite to this special session papers that report and discuss research and development achievements including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Methods for requirement elicitation applied to MABs, and their results
- User studies with prototype MABs
- Assessment of user needs and potential technology transfer of meeting technology
- Methods for evaluating MABs and their results
- Methods for analysing user interaction patterns with MABs
- Analysis of evaluation results with respect to initial user requirements
- Guidelines for MABs developers
Submission
Papers for this session should be submitted as regular MLMI papers, in Springer's LNCS format, at http://openconf.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi2008. Submission to this session should be indicated in the Comments for Chair field of the submission form, along with the intention to give a demo or not. We encourage the submission of short papers for this session (max. 6 pages) although long papers will be considered as well. The papers will be reviewed by the MLMI Program Committee, possibly with the help of external reviewers.
Deadline for submission to special session: Friday, April 11 (the other dates are the same as for the main track).
Organization and contacts
The intended schedule of this special session is the following:
- Brief presentation of the accepted papers
- Set up of discussion groups on themes related to the session
- Brief summary of group discussions for the entire MLMI public
Denis Lalanne, U. of Fribourg - denis.lalanne@unifr.ch
Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP - andrei.popescu-belis@idiap.ch
Wilfried Post, TNO - wilfried.post@tno.nl
Steve Whittaker - s.whittaker@sheffield.ac.uk