European Conference on Eye Movements 2015

Call for Abstracts

We are very pleased to announce this call for abstracts for the 18th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM). As in previous years, we look forward to an exciting conference. As the largest conference on eye movements worldwide, ECEM aims to promote cooperation and communication between researchers and research fields, as well as to exchange information on the state-of-the-art of research, equipment, and software in the field of eye movements. Therefore, ECEM brings together basic as well as more applied researchers from different fields including neurophysiologists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, clinicians, linguists, computational and applied scientists, engineers and manufacturers that are interested in eye movements.

ECEM 2015 will be held from August 16 to 21, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. The conference chairs are Ulrich Ansorge, Thomas Ditye, Arnd Florack, and Helmut Leder from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna.

This year’s guest lectures will be given by Laurent Itti (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Jukka Hyönä (University of Turku, Finland), Peter König (University of Osnabrück, Germany), Tirin Moore (Stanford University, CA), John K. Tsotsos (York University, Canada) and Robin Walker (Royal Holloway, UK).

ECEM 2015 offers the possibility to submit *symposia*, as well as individual *talks* and *posters*. Please read all instructions to ensure that your contribution can be considered for ECEM 2015.

The call for abstracts can also be downloaded here: http://goo.gl/njN1Nq

For further information and for the submission of your abstracts please visit the conference website: http://ecem2015.univie.ac.at

Please feel free to distribute and forward this call to your colleagues and/or members of your institution/mailing-list.

We look forward to welcoming you to Vienna!

Contact

Please send any queries, open questions or organisational concerns to: ecem2015@univie.ac.at

Call for Papers

7th International KES Conference on INTELLIGENT DECISION TECHNOLOGIES

Special Session
*Intelligent Methods for Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis*
http://www.kasprowski.pl/emdpa

Sorrento, Bay of Naples, Italy 17-19 June 2015

The aim of the session is to summarize the current state of the art in the eye movement data analysis and enable prospective researchers to present their new ideas concerning this subject.

The scope of the session includes, but is not limited to:

– Collecting eye movement data
– Data precision and accuracy
– 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 based on their eye movement

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the KES Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series, submitted for indexing in Scopus and Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and the Web of Science.

Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 12 January 2015
Notification of acceptance: 16 February 2015
Final versions: 2 March 2015
Conference: 17-19 June 2015

Email & Contact Details:
Paweł Kasprowski (pawel.kasprowski@polsl.pl)
Katarzyna Harężlak (katarzyna.harezlak@polsl.pl)
Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to your colleagues who might be interested in submitting contribution to the above mentioned event.

Jacob Lund Orquin posted this call:

Call for Papers

Workshop on Methodological Issues in Mobile Eye Tracking

• 18th of March 2015
• Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark

The use of mobile eye tracking is of great potential to behavioral research, but application is often hampered by methodological issues. This workshop addresses methodological challenges and recent developments in mobile eye tracking across disciplines to advance the use of mobile technology. Participation in the workshop is free.

Invited speakers:

• Thies Pfeiffer (Bielefeldt University)
• Annika Wallin (Lund University)
• Kerstin Gidlöf (Lund University)

Submission Procedure and Deadlines:

If you wish to present your research, please submit an abstract (max 500 words) to mana@cas.au.dk<mailto:mana@cas.au.dk> by February 20, 2015. We invite contributions on methodological issues in mobile eye tracking from any discipline. Authors will receive notification of acceptance by the end of February 2015.

Conference Fee: Free.

Organizers:

Marc Andersen (mana@cas.au.dk<mailto:mana@cas.au.dk>) and Jacob L. Orquin (jalo@badm.au.dk<mailto:jalo@badm.au.dk>)

Important Dates:

• February 20, 2015: Deadline for abstract submission
• End of February 2015: Notification of acceptance
• March 4, 2015: Deadline for registration

Logistic Information:

The workshop will take place at the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. Further logistical details can be found here at:

http://interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-events/artikel/workshop-methodological-issues-in-mobile-eye-tracking/

Registration:

https://auws.au.dk/forms/frm1Arrangement.aspx?value=635572554531343512&id=23208

For any further information please contact us at mana@cas.au.dk<mailto:mana@cas.au.dk>.

4th International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction (PETMEI 2014)
– in conjunction with UbiComp 2014

You are cordially invited to submit original work at the PETMEI 2014 Workshop. The workshop will be held in Seattle on September 13th, 2014.

Location: Seattle, United States
Date: September 13th, 2014

IMPORTANT DATES
– Abstract Submission: June 3, 2014
– Paper Submission: June 10, 2014
– Notification of Acceptance: June 24, 2014
– Camera-ready due: July 1, 2014
– Workshop: September 13, 2014

VISION AND GOALS
Despite considerable advances over the last decades, previous work on eye tracking and eye-based human-computer interfaces mainly developed use of the eyes in traditional desktop settings. Latest developments in remote and headmounted eye tracking equipment and automated eye movement analysis point the way toward unobtrusive eye-based human-computer interfaces that will become pervasively usable in everyday life. With the growth of interest in smart glass devices and low-cost eye trackers, gaze-based techniques for mobile computing is becoming increasingly important in recent years. We call this new paradigm pervasive eye tracking – continuous eye monitoring and analysis 24/7.

The potential applications for the ability to track and analyse eye movements anywhere and any time call for new research to further develop and understand visual behaviour and eyebased interaction in daily life settings. PETMEI 2014 will focus on pervasive eye tracking as a trailblazer for mobile eye-based interaction and eye-based context-awareness. We provide a forum for researchers from human-computer interaction, context-aware computing, egocentric computer vision and eye tracking to discuss techniques and applications that go beyond classical eye tracking and stationary eye-based interaction. We want to stimulate and explore the creativity of these communities with respect to the implications, key research challenges, and new applications for pervasive eye tracking in ubiquitous computing. The long-term goal is to create a strong interdisciplinary research community linking these fields together and to establish the workshop as the premier forum for research on pervasive eye tracking.

TOPICS
Topics of interest cover computational methods, new applications and use cases, as well as eye tracking technology for pervasive eye tracking and mobile eye-based interaction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Methods
We invite participants to reflect on the specific characteristics of pervasive eye tracking systems and to contrast them with classical methods for eye tracking, eye movement analysis, eye-based interaction, and evaluation. We welcome contributions reporting on methodological advances on all components of mobile eye tracking systems, and the workshop will also cover latest technological advances in mobile eye tracking equipment.
– Eye tracking technologies for mobile devices
– Tools for face, eye detection and tracking
– Gaze and eye movement analysis methods
– Integration of pervasive eye tracking and context-aware computing
– Multi-modal sensor fusion
– User studies on pervasive eye tracking
– Devices for portable, wearable and ambient eye tracking

Applications
In addition to contributions reporting on methodological advances we also want to attract submissions that explore innovative applications of pervasive eye tracking and mobile eye-based interaction. We also want to particularly invite presentations on research on egocentric vision systems and gazerelated computer vision applications that can potentially extend the possibility of current mobile gaze interaction.
– Pervasive eye-based interaction
– Mobile attentive user interfaces
– Eye-based activity and context recognition
– Security and privacy for pervasive eye-tracking systems
– Eye tracking for specialized application areas
– Eye-based human-robot and human-agent interaction
– Cognition-aware systems and user interfaces
– Human factors in mobile eye-based interaction
– Egocentric computer-vision systems and applications

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prospective authors should submit notes with a maximum length of four pages or full papers with a maximum length of six pages. In addition to research papers we explicitly invite submissions of position papers and papers that describe preliminary results or work-in-progress. All submissions should be prepared according to the SIGCHI archival format (double column, PDF). Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2014 supplemental proceedings. In addition, printed proceedings will be distributed to the participants during the workshop. We also plan to publish extended versions of selected papers in an edited book or a special issue of a journal or magazine.

Templates
– Latex http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-latex-template/at_download/file
– Word http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-word-template/at_download/file

Submission Website
Please visit our website http://2014.petmei.org/ for regular updates.

ORGANIZERS
– Thies Pfeiffer, Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany
– Sophie Stellmach, Microsoft Corporation, USA
– Yusuke Sugano, The University of Tokyo, JP

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
PETMEI 2014 is supported by the following program committee members:
– Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, DE
– Andrew T. Duchowski, Clemson University, USA
– Alireza Fathi, Stanford University, USA
– Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen, DK
– Kris M. Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
– Päivi Majaranta, University of Tampere, FI
– Lucas Paletta, Joanneum, AT
– Pernilla Qvarfordt, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, US
– Lech Swirski, University of Cambridge, UK
– Takumi Toyama, DFKI, DE

More committee members to be announced soon.

CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please visit our website or sent us an email:
– Official PETMEI 2014 E-Mail: petmei2014@gmail.com
– PETMEI 2014 Website: http://2014.petmei.org/

Roman Bednarik posted the workshop description on the Eye-Movement mailing list:

Invited speaker: Julien Epps – University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Eye gaze is one of the most important aspects in understanding and modeling human-human communication, and it has great potential also in improving human-machine and robot interaction. In human face-to-face communication, eye gaze plays an important role in floor and turn management, grounding, and engagement in conversation. In human-computer interaction research, social gaze, gaze directed at an interaction partner, has been a subject of increased attention.

This is the sixth workshop in Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, and in the past we have discussed a wide range of issues for eye gaze relevant to multimodal interaction; technologies for sensing human attentional behaviors, roles of attentional behaviors as social gaze in human-human and human-machine/robot interaction, attentional behaviors in problem-solving and task-performing, gaze-based intelligent user interfaces, and evaluation of gaze-based UI. In addition to these topics, this workshop will focus on eye gaze in multimodal communication, interpretation and generation. Since eye gaze is one of the primary communication modalities, gaze information can be combined with other modalities to compensate meanings of utterances or to serve as a stand-alone communication signal.

GazeIn’13 aims to continue in these lines and explore the growing area of gaze in intelligent interaction research by bringing together researchers from domains of human sensing, multimodal processing, humanoid interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, and communication science. We will exchange ideas to develop and improve methodologies for this research area with the long-term goal of establishing a strong interdisciplinary research community in “attention aware interactive systems”.

This workshop solicits papers that address the following topics (but not limited to):

• Technologies and methods for sensing and interpretation of gaze and human attentional behaviors
• Eye gaze in multimodal generation and behavior production in conversational humanoids
• Empirical studies of attentional behaviors
• New directions for gaze in Multimodal interaction
• Evaluation and design issues for using eye gaze in multimodal interfaces

Please see the online CfP for a full list of topics (http://cs.uef.fi/gazein2013/call-for-papers)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
There are two categories of paper submissions.
Long paper: The maximum length is 6 pages.
Short paper: The maximum length is 3 pages.

At least three members of the program committee will review each submission. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Best papers will be selected for an inclusion to a special issue in a journal. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. For templates and examples follow the link: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Please submit your papers using https://precisionconference.com/~icmi13j

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: August 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2013
Camera-ready due: October 10, 2013
Workshop date: December 13, 2013

ORGANIZERS
Roman Bednarik – University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Hung-Hsuan Huang – Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Kristiina Jokinen – University of Helsinki, Finland
Yukiko Nakano – Seikei University, Japan

Jukka Hyönä posted the following call for participation on the Eye-Movement mailing list:

Call for participation
International Symposium “Developmental eye-tracking research in reading”
October 23-26, Hannover, Germany.

Further information and a preliminary program is available here:
http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/node/11440

The underlying motive for this symposium is that eye-tracking research with a focus on developmental questions is still quite rare and only a few labs are actively conducting this kind of research. In addition, there is little consensus on theoretical issues and researchers engaged in this work are scattered across different countries. We therefore believe that the field would benefit from a meeting in which researchers from different countries could present their developmental work and discuss the theoretical and methodological challenges associated with developmental eye-tracking studies.

This motivation is reflected in the program of the symposium: There will be two theoretical sessions (concentrating on oculomotor and linguistic aspects respectively) and one methodological session (focusing on different experimental approaches and analyzing/modeling developmental eye-movement data). In addition, there will be one session in which recent developmental eye-tracking studies will be presented and one session exploring potential implications for education and other applied issues.

All talks are given by invited speakers. However there are a few places available for additional participants who can attend the symposium without giving a talk. There might also be the opportunity to present a poster in a separate poster session.

The workshop is supported by the VW foundation. Attendance of the symposium is free of charge and accommodation expenses will be covered. Travel costs are generally not reimbursed, but students can apply for a travel grant separately.

If you want to attend the symposium please send an email to devtrack[at]mpib-berlin.mpg[dot].de until August 31, 2013. In this email, briefly explain your motivation to attend the symposium, provide a short abstract (200 words) for a potential poster presentation and indicate whether you wish to be considered for a student travel grant.

Best regards,
Sascha Schroeder, Jukka Hyönä, Simon Liversedge