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Call for Papers: 2021 COGAIN Symposium
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THE 2021 COGAIN SYMPOSIUM
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Website: https://cogain2021.cogain.org
Where: Stuttgart, Germany (virtually)
When: May 25-27, 2021, as part of ETRA 2021 (https://etra.acm.org/2021/)

Important dates (Anywhere on Earth):
Short Papers due: Feb 20, 2021
Position Papers due: March 8th, 2021
Notifications: Mar 15, 2021
Camera-ready: Mar 30, 2021

# CALL FOR PAPERS

The Symposium on Communication by Gaze Interaction organized by the COGAIN Association (http://cogain.org/) will be co-located with ETRA 2021 (https://etra.acm.org/2021/), the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. ETRA 2021 will take place (virtually) in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 25th to the 27th.

Founded in 2008 as a continuation of the COGAIN Project (a network of excellence supported by the European Commission’s IST 6th framework program from 2004 to 2009), the COGAIN Association aims to promote research and development in the field of gaze-based interaction in computer-aided communication and control.

The COGAIN Symposium will be co-located with ETRA 2021. By combining our efforts with ETRA, we hope to encourage a broader exchange of knowledge and experiences amongst eye tracking communities of researchers, developers, manufacturers, and users.

# SPECIAL SESSION: FUTURE OF GAZE-BASED ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

This year a special session is dedicated to the opportunities and challenges of gaze-based assistive technologies of the future. The advent of mobile computing devices and technologies such as VR and AR has increased the availability of eye tracking in many environments beyond the desktop. Research in this area has already demonstrated gaze-based interactions in smart home environments, mobile robotics, and e.g. wheelchairs or prostheses control. Thus, gaze-based assistive technologies have the potential to help people interact with various types of machines in everyday situations. We want to bring together people working towards this vision and foster this community. For the COGAIN Symposium 2021 we are particularly interested in position papers addressing these opportunities and challenges.

# GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST

The COGAIN workshop focuses on all those aspects of gaze interaction which have a connection with eye-controlled assistive technology. Thanks to its strong identity, the symposium will be the right venue to present advances in these areas, leading to new capabilities in gaze interaction, gaze enhanced applications, gaze contingent devices, etc. Unless the main focus is on assistive technology, the authors must clearly state how the paper advances or is linked to eye-controlled assistive technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Eye-typing
  • Gaze-contingent devices
  • Gaze-enhanced games
  • Gaze-controlled robots and vehicles
  • Gaze interaction with mobile devices
  • Gaze-controlled smart-home devices
  • Gaze interfaces for wearable computing
  • Gaze interaction in 3D (VR/AR/MR & real world)
  • Gaze interaction paradigms
  • Usability and UX evaluation of gaze-based interfaces
  • User context estimation from eye movements
  • Gaze-supported multimodal interaction (gaze with multitouch, mouse, gesture, etc.)

# SUBMISSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

One half of the COGAIN Symposium is dedicated to presentations and a discussion about the future of gaze-based assistive technologies, aimed at community building. Late-breaking research results are put forward in the second half of the symposium. As ETRA 2021 is a virtual event, presentations are expected to take place as pre-recorded videos to ensure high-level delivery and allow for asynchronous participation.

We invite authors to prepare and submit papers following ETRA’s ACM format (http://etra.acm.org/2021/submissionprocess.html). For COGAIN, we are accepting Short Papers until February 20th and Position Papers until March 8th.

Short Papers can be up to 8 pages (single-column format, not counting references), and Position Papers up to 4 pages (single-column format, not counting references), can be submitted through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/etra (select the COGAIN track from the drop down list).

The Short Paper submissions are reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted Short papers will be published in ETRA’s short paper proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. We expect at least one author per submission to register for the conference.

# ORGANIZATION

General co-chairs:
– Carolin Hainke (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany)
– Thies Pfeiffer (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany)
– Sarah Yeo

Program co-chairs:
– Ken Pfeuffer (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
– Augusto Esteves (ITI/LARSyS, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

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Please visit http://cogain2021.cogain.org/
for more information or contact us by
email to cogain2021@cogain.org

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Call for Proposals: ETRA 2021 Workshops
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ACM ETRA 2021 – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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In conjunction with ETRA 2021 (virtual event)
Workshops: 25 May 2021 (tentative)
ETRA: 25-29 May 2021 (tentative)
https://etra.acm.org/2021/

CALL

We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ETRA 2021. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges evolving around eye tracking research. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics.
We invite submissions of proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshops. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES

16 December 2020: Proposals due
22 December 2020: Notifications sent
15 January 2021: Workshop page is online and linked

FORMATS

We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas. They will support you in preparing an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to:
“Mini-conferences” on specialized topics: such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes.
“Practical” and “Panel-based” workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement.
“Project centric” workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project.
“Mini-competitions”, like challenges or hackathons, around selected topics with individual or team participation.
Note that in particular organizers of mini-conference workshops are encouraged to think about alternative formats, in case they receive less submissions than expected (e.g., due to the current CoVID-19 situation). Examples include but are not limited to complementing paper presentations with a panel discussion, breakout groups, etc.
The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the ETRA conference community. Workshop and tutorial organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop and the ETRA 2021 web site will refer to this website. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process.

PUBLICATION OF WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

This year, ETRA will allow workshop contributions to be published in two different formats:
Short Paper Proceedings: Papers with up to 4 pages + any number of pages for references, going through one full review cycle
Adjunct Proceedings: Papers with up to 2 pages, going through a less competitive review cycle or juried process.
Workshop organizers may choose between both formats and should clearly indicate their preference in their proposal.

PROPOSAL FORMAT

Workshop proposals should be maximum 4 pages long and follow the formatting instructions and template at https://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors/
Please include the following information in the proposal:
Name and title:
A one-word acronym and a full title.
Description of workshop or tutorial topic:
This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to ETRA and its interest for the ETRA 2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest.
Previous history (if applicable):
List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants.
Organizer(s):
Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. Also please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past.
Workshop program committee (optional):
Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions.
Participants:
A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop or tutorial.
Workshop format:
A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc.
Planned outcomes of the workshop:
What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outputs arising workshops.
Backup plan in cases of low number of submissions:
The ongoing pandemic situation is expected to have a significant impact on paper submissions, as it has become extremely difficult to conduct proper experiments. Please describe how you have considered this in your program or how you would react to a low number of submissions (e.g. by shortening the workshop, switching to different formats, etc.).
Length:
Full-day or half-day.

SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop proposals should be submitted by the deadline via email to the workshop organizers:
workshop.etra2021@gmail.com

TENTATIVE TIMELINE FOR WORKSHOP REVIEW CYCLES

Workshop Papers going into the Short Paper Proceedings need to undergo a full review process. The approximate timeline for this is as follows:
February, 20th, 2021 Workshop papers due
March, 15th, 2021 Notifications
March, 30th, 2021 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)
Workshop Paper going into the Adjunct Proceedings require a less rigorous / can be juried. The approximate timeline for this is as follows.
March, 8th, 2021 Workshop papers due
March, 15th, 2021 Notifications
March, 30th, 2021 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Florian Alt, Bundeswehr University Munich
Thies Pfeiffer, Hochschule Emden/Leer
workshop.etra2021@gmail.com

Call for Papers: 1st Workshop on Eye Tracking Techniques, Applications and Challenges (ETTAC 2020)
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Milan, Italy, January 10, 2021

https://vision.unipv.it/ettac2020/

in conjunction with ICPR 2020, the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/).


AIMS AND SCOPE

Eye tracking technology is becoming more and more widespread nowadays, also thanks to the recent availability of cheap commercial devices. At the same time, novel techniques are constantly pursued to improve the precision of gaze detection, and new ways to fully exploit the potential of eye data are continuously explored. Whatever the considered use context, be it Human-Computer Interaction, user behavior understanding, biometrics, or others, pattern recognition often plays a relevant role.

The purpose of the workshop is to present recent eye tracking research that, directly or indirectly, exploits any form of pattern recognition.The event’s scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

  • Gaze detection techniques and devices
  • Gaze-based human-computer interaction (assistive technologies, hybrid interfaces, etc.)
  • Eye tracking for usability inspection
  • Eye tracking in VR/AR applications
  • User behavior understanding from eye data
  • Eye movement analysis for biometrics, security and privacy
  • Eye tracking in medicine and health care
  • Visualization of gaze data

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the Springer’s Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Two types of contributions are possible:

  • Full papers (12-15 pages, including references)
  • Short papers (6-8 pages, including references)

Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. The submission platform will be available soon.


IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: October 10, 2020
  • Notification to authors: November 10, 2020
  • Camera-ready article: November 15, 2020
  • Finalized workshop program: December 1, 2020
  • Workshop day: January 10, 2021


ORGANIZERS

Marco Porta (University of Pavia, Italy)
Paweł Kasprowski (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
Luca Lombardi (University of Pavia, Italy)
Piercarlo Dondi (University of Pavia, Italy)


CONTACT INFORMATION

For any inquiry regarding the workshop please contact Marco Porta at marco.porta@unipv.it

Call for Papers: ACM ETRA 2021
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The 2021 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 25 to 29, 2021. The aim of ETRA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. Join us in Stuttgart for ETRA, attend co-located workshops, and participate in exciting discussions.

The symposium presents advances and innovations in oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis. We invite full and short papers in all areas of eye tracking research and applications, and welcome submissions from all domains, including visuomotor neuroscience, perception, and cognition.

Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication elsewhere. All papers will be published and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author must register and present accepted work at the conference.

http://etra.acm.org/2021/cfp.html

ACM ETRA 2021 is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH).


Important Dates:

Full paper
Abstract submission: Nov 25, 2020
Paper submission: Dec 2, 2020
First round reviews and notifications: Feb 9, 2021
Revisions due: Mar 1, 2021
Second round reviews and notifications: Mar 18, 2021
Camera ready deadline: Mar 30, 2021

Short paper
Paper submission: Jan 27, 2021
Reviews and notifications: Mar 15, 2021
Camera ready deadline: Mar 30, 2021

Conference date: May 25-29, 2021

Topic Areas:

The ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) solicits original full and short research papers on a diverse set of topics related to eye tracking. Research contributions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not limited to:

●      Data analysis
○      Novel methods such as deep learning and other machine learning-based methods
○      Pattern recognition for scanpaths
○      Clustering of gaze data
○      Event detection
○      Large-scale data processing

●      Prediction methods
○      Gaze prediction
○      Action, intent, or attribute prediction

●      Visualization
○      Visual representation of gaze patterns and other eye tracking data
○      Visual analytics and combination with machine learning

●      Eye tracking devices
○      Head-mounted eye tracking
○      Remote eye tracking
○      Novel sensors

●      Perception and cognition; empirical studies
○      Perception, attention and oculomotor control
○      Visual search and scene perception
○      Eye movements in reading and communication
○      Eye-hand coordination
○      Eye tracking in naturalistic tasks
○      In-the-wild studies

●      Gaze-based interaction
○      Novel interaction methods
○      Virtual and augmented reality
○      Multi-modal interaction

●      Security and privacy

●      Applications
○      Education
○      Driving
○      Medical/health
○      Virtual and augmented reality
○      Graphics and virtual avatars



***  Full papers are up to 8 pages plus any number of additional pages for references. Authors are also invited to submit papers in a shorter format (2 to 4 pages plus any number of pages for references). All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library.


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For more details visit: http://etra.acm.org/2021/

CfP: Special Session on Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis at KES-2020
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Dear Colleagues,

we would like to cordially invite you to submit your work to:

IV Special Session on Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis

organized during
24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems KES-2020 (Core-B conference)

Verona, Italy, 16-18 September 2020

The series of EMDPA sessions aim to summarize the current state of the art in the eye movement data analysis and enable prospective researchers to present their new ideas concerning the eye movement analyses. The conference proceedings will be published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science open access journal, available in ScienceDirect, and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science), Engineering Index, and Scopus.

The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:

Collecting eye movement data
Accuracy and precision of data
Calibration of eye movement data signal
Events detection (fixations and saccades)
Gaze-based user interfaces
Eye movement modelling
Data mining of eye movement signal
Eye movement based identification
Improving man machine interactions for people with disabilities
Eye movement applications in testing interface usability
Eye movement in security systems
Eye movement in solving problems
Usage of eye movement signal in cognitive processes
Methods improving quality of eye movement signal
Recognition of people’s intentions basing on their eye movement
Miscellaneous eye tracking applications

Programme Committee:

Pawel Kasprowski, Silesian Univesity of Technology, Poland (chair)
Katarzyna Harezlak, Silesian Univesity of Technology, Poland (co-chair)
Michael Burch, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (co-chair)
Thies Pfeiffer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Krzysztof Krejtz, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
Radosław Mantiuk, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Carlos Morimoto, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Ayush Kumar, Stony Brook University, USA
Kuno Kurzalis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Mikhail Startsev, Technische Universität München, Germany
Arantxa Villanueva, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Thiago Santini, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Diako Mardanbegi, AdHawk Microsystems, Canada
Dan Witzner Hansen, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Raimondas Zemblys, Siauliai University, Lithuania

Important Dates:

Submission of papers: 3 April 2020
Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2020
Final versions: 20 May 2020
Conference: 16-18 September 2020

Additional information for authors: http://www.kasprowski.pl/emdpa

Hope to see you in Verona!

COGAIN Symposium 2020, Deadline Extension
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THE 2020 COGAIN SYMPOSIUM
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Website: http://cogain2020.cogain.org

Where: Stuttgart, Germany
When: June 2-5, 2020, as part of ETRA 2020 (https://etra.acm.org/2020/)

Important dates:
Papers due: Feb 3, 2020
Feedback: Feb 21, 2020
Rebuttals: Feb 28, 2020
Decisions: Mar 6, 2020
Camera-ready: Apr 2, 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Symposium on Communication by Gaze Interaction organized by the COGAIN Association (http://cogain.org/) will be co-located with ETRA 2020 (https://etra.acm.org/2020/), the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. ETRA 2020 will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, from June 2nd to the 5th.
Founded in 2008 as a continuation of the COGAIN Project (a network of excellence supported by the European Commission’s IST 6th framework program from 2004 to 2009), the COGAIN Association aims to promote research and development in the field of gaze-based interaction in computer-aided communication and control.

The COGAIN Symposium will be organized as a special session at ETRA. By combining our efforts with ETRA, we hope to encourage a broader exchange of knowledge and experiences amongst the communities of researchers, developers, manufacturers, and users of eye trackers.

We invite authors to prepare and submit papers and notes following the same ETRA’s ACM format (http://etra.acm.org/2020/cfp.html).
Papers, up to 8 pages (+ 2 additional pages for references), can be submitted through the link https://new.precisionconference.com/etra (select the COGAIN track from the drop down list). Accepted articles will be published as adjunct ACM proceedings of ETRA 2020.

The COGAIN Symposium focuses on all those aspects of gaze interaction which have a clear connection with eye-controlled assistive technology. Thanks to its strong identity, the symposium will be the right venue to present advances in these areas, leading to new capabilities in gaze interaction, gaze enhanced applications, gaze contingent devices, etc. Unless the main focus is on assistive technology, the authors must clearly state how the paper advances or is linked with eye-controlled assistive technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

* Eye-typing
* Gaze-contingent devices
* Gaze-enhanced games
* Gaze-controlled robots and vehicles
* Gaze interaction with mobile devices
* Gaze-controlled smart-home devices
* Gaze interfaces for wearable computing
* Gaze interaction in 3D (VR/AR/MR & real world)
* Gaze interaction paradigms
* Usability and UX evaluation of gaze-based interfaces
* User context estimation from eye movements
* Gaze-supported multimodal interaction (gaze with multitouch, mouse, gesture, etc.)

ORGANIZATION

General co-chairs:
– Marco Porta
(University of Pavia, Italy)
– Diako Mardanbegi
(AdHawk Microsystems, Canada)

Program co-chairs:
– Päivi Majaranta
(Tampere University, Finland)
– Ken Pfeuffer
(Bundeswehr University,
Germany)

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Please visit http://cogain2020.cogain.org/
for more information or contact us by
email to cogain2020@cogain.org
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ETRA 2020 – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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ACM ETRA 2020 – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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In conjunction with ETRA 2020
Stuttgart, Germany
Workshops: 2 June 2019
ETRA: 2-5 June 2019
https://etra.acm.org/2020/

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CALL
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We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ETRA 2020. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges evolving around eye tracking research. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics.

Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshops. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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16 December 2019: Proposals due
22 December 2019: Notifications sent
15 January 2020: Workshop page is online and linked

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FORMATS
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We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas. They will support you in preparing an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to:

“Mini-conferences” on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes.

“Hands-on” workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement.

“Project centric” workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project.

“Mini-competitions”, like challenges or hackathons, around selected topics with individual or team participation.

Workshops with few submissions may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the ETRA conference community. Workshop and tutorial organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop and the ETRA 2020 web site will refer to this website. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process.

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PUBLICATION OF WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
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This year, ETRA will allow workshop contributions to be published in two different formats:

Short Paper Proceedings: Papers with up to 4 pages + any number of pages for references, going through one full review cycle

Adjunct Proceedings: Papers with up to 2 pages, going through a less competitive review cycle or juried process.

Workshop organizers may chose between both formats and should clearly indicate their preference in their proposal.

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PROPOSAL FORMAT
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Workshop proposals should be maximum 4 pages long and follow the formatting instructions and template at https://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors/

Please include the following information in the proposal:

Name and title:
A one-word acronym and a full title.

Description of workshop or tutorial topic:
This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to ETRA and its interest for the ETRA 2020 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest.

Previous history (if applicable):
List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants.

Organizer(s):
Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. Also please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past.

Workshop program committee (optional):
Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions.

Participants:
A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop or tutorial.

Workshop format:
A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc.

Specific requirements (e.g., Hackathons):
Please provide a detailed list of any specific requirements regarding facilities / hardware you might have.

Planned outcomes of the workshop:
What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outputs arising workshops.

Length:
Full-day or half-day.

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SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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Workshop proposals should be submitted by the deadline via email to the workshop organizers:
workshop.etra2020@gmail.com

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TENTATIVE TIMELINE FOR WORKSHOP REVIEW CYCLES
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Workshop Papers going into the Short Paper Proceedings need to undergo a full review process. The approximate timeline for this is as follows:

20 February 2020 Workshop papers due
19 March 2020 Notifications
02 April 2020 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)

Workshop Paper going into the Adjunct Proceedings require a less rigorous / can be juried. The approximate timeline for this is as follows.

06 March 2020 Workshop papers due
19 March 2020 Notifications
02 April 2020 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Florian Alt, Bundeswehr University Munich
Thies Pfeiffer, Hochschule Emden/Leer
workshop.etra2020@gmail.com

2020 ACM ETRA Call for Paper Submissions
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*** https://etra.acm.org/2020

The 2020 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, June 2-5, 2020. ETRA will gather computer scientists, engineers, and behavioral scientists with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward.

Under the motto “Bridging Communities”, ACM ETRA 2020 aims to bring together eye tracking researchers from computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. Therefore, we encourage paper submissions from fields ranging from computer science to psychology and cognition.

The full CFP is available online: https://etra.acm.org/2020/cfp.html

Important dates for Full Papers (up to 8 pages and any number of additional pages for references):
* Dec 1, 2019: Abstract submission (mandatory)
* Dec 9, 2019: Full paper submission
* Feb 14, 2020: First round reviews and notification
* March 6, 2020: Revisions due
* March 23, 2020: Second round reviews and notification
* April 2, 2020: Camera ready deadline

Important dates for Short Papers (2-4 pages and any number of additional pages for references):
* Feb 3, 2020: Paper submission
* March 19, 2020: Reviews and notification (first and only round)
* April 2, 2020: Camera ready deadline

The accepted Full Papers will be published by ACM in the “ETRA Full Papers Proceedings” and the accepted Short Papers will be published by ACM in the “ETRA Short Papers Proceedings”.

Sincerely,

Eakta Jain (University of Florida), Ralph Radach (University of Wuppertal), Daniel Weiskopf (University of Stuttgart)

– Technical Program Chairs, ACM ETRA 2020 –

ECEM 2019: Deadline extended to Monday, April 22nd
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The deadline for abstract submissions for the 2019 European Conference on
Eye Movements (ECEM) has been extended to Monday, April 22nd.

Full details at:
http://www.ecem2019.com/index.php/abstracts/abstracts-guidelines.

Accepted abstracts will be published as a special issue in the Journal of
Eye Movement Research (Editor: Rudolf Groner, Bern).

ECEM 2017’s abstracts are available at:

https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/issue/view/779

Register for ECEM 2019 by the early registration deadline (June 17th) and
save on fees:
http://ecem2019.com/index.php/registration/registration

We are also delighted to announce that ECEM 2019 will include nine accepted
symposia:

What Eyes Tell Us About Child Sensorimotor and Cognitive Development
Chair: Nadia Alahyane (Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada)

Eye Movements During the Reading of Narrative and Poetic Text
Chairs: Jana Lüdtke and Arthur M. Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Eyes Wide Shut: gaze dynamics without vision
Chair: Susana Martinez-Conde (State University of New York, Downstate
Medical Center, NY, USA)

Eye Movements in Developing Readers: from basic research to classroom
application
Chair: Alexandra Spichtig (Reading Plus, USA)

From Lab-Based Studies to Eye-Tracking in Virtual and Real Worlds:
conceptual and methodological problems and solutions
Chair: Roy Hessels (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Recent Advances in Research on the “Looking at Nothing” Phenomenon
Chair: Agnes Rosner and Roger Johansson (University of Zurich, Switzerland,
and Lund University, Sweden)

3-D Binocular Motor Control and Health
Chair: Zoï Kapoula (CNRS FR3636, UFR Biomédicale, University Paris
Descartes, France)

Word Processing Across Space and Time During Reading: insights from eye
tracking, electrophysiology, and computational modeling
Chair: Elizabeth Schotter and Brennan Payne (University of South Florida and University of Utah, USA)

Progress in Neurophysiology and Oculomotor Psychophysics: contributions and influence of Jan van Gisbergen (1943-2019)
Chair: John van Opstal (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

ECEM 2019 will feature six world-renowned keynote speakers:
Jennifer Groh (Duke University)
Hamutal Slovin (Bar Ilan University)
Martin Rolfs (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Janet Rucker (New York University)
Enkelejda Kasneci (University of Tübingen)
Antje Nuthmann (University of Kiel)


http://ecem2019.com/index.php/programme/keynotes

ECEM 2019 will be in Alicante, Spain (August 18-22)

Alicante, with more than 320,000 inhabitants, is a traditional maritime city located on the Mediterranean Sea. The old part of the city encompasses
Postiguet Beach, two marinas and a large commercial port. The city embraces
an imposing 166-meter rocky hill right next to the sea, Monte Benacantil,
crowned by The Castillo de Santa Bárbara (Santa Barbara Castle). This is one of the largest castles on the Mediterranean, and the conference dinner will take place within its premises, with breathtaking views over the city and the Mediterranean. The slopes of Monte Benacantil surround the old city of Alicante (El Barrio) like a shield. El Barrio is well known for its vibrant nightlife.

The local organizing team has secured a large block of hotel rooms at
special discounted rates for the conference. Specific hotel information will be made available on the website in March 2019. Lodging in the area is
reasonably priced, but accommodations can become limited in the high summer
season. We advise early hotel reservation.

On Behalf of the Local Organization Committee

Please share this information with your colleagues. We look forward to
welcoming you to Alicante!

Luis Martinez-Otero (chair), Albert Compte, and Susana Martinez-Conde

ECEM 2019
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The 20th European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM 2019, will take place
from Sunday, August 18th, to Thursday, August 22nd, in Alicante, Spain. Over its more than three-decade long history, ECEM has grown to become the largest scientific meeting on eye movement research worldwide. The conference brings together a vibrant community of researchers working towards a better understanding of eye movements, and their use in the study of a wide range of topics in neuroscience, cognitive science and various applied fields.

Our goal is to promote communication and cooperation between participants from diverse areas, such as neurophysiology, psychology, medical sciences, linguistics, computer science, human factors and many others. An important feature of ECEM is the presentation of state of the art equipment and software by manufacturers of eye movement recording systems.

The conference website will soon be active at www.ecem2019.com. In the meantime, please save the dates: August 18th through August 22nd, 2019.

Important Dates

  • January 10, 2019 : Symposia, poster/talk submission open
  • January 28, 2019 : Symposia submission deadline
  • February 28, 2019 : Notification of symposia acceptance
  • April 1, 2019: Registration opens
  • April 05, 2019: Poster/talk submission deadline
  • May 06, 2019: Notification of poster/talk acceptance
  • June 17, 2019: Deadline for early registration

Conference Venue and Accommodation

Alicante, with more than 320,000 inhabitants, is a traditional maritime city located on the Mediterranean Sea. The old part of the city encompasses Postiguet Beach, two marinas and a large commercial port. The city embraces an imposing 166-meter rocky hill right next to the sea, Monte Benacantil, crowned by The Castillo de Santa Bárbara (Santa Barbara Castle). This is one of the largest castles on the Mediterranean, and the conference dinner will take place within its premises, with breathtaking views over the city and the Mediterranean. The slopes of Monte Benacantil surround the old city of Alicante (El Barrio) like a shield. El Barrio is well known for its vibrant nightlife.

The local organizing team has secured a large block of hotel rooms at special discounted rates for the conference. Specific hotel information will be made available on the website in March 2019. Lodging in the area is reasonably priced, but accommodation can become limited in the high summer season. We advise early hotel reservation.

Publication of Abstracts

Accepted abstracts will be published as a special issue in the Journal of
Eye Movement Research (Editor: Rudolf Groner, Bern). See ECEM 2017’s
abstracts at: https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/issue/view/77