<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:normal">[Apologies for cross-posting]</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;white-space:normal"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Glasgow, Scotland. November 13-17th, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/</a></span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Workshops</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Due **Feb 22th, 2017**. Decisions 8th March, 2017. Workshops to be held on 13th Nov 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submit via email to Miriam Redi (<a href="mailto:miriam.redi@gmail.com" target="_blank">miriam.redi@gmail.com</a>), Martin Pielot (<a href="mailto:pielot@tid.es" target="_blank">pielot@tid.es</a>) and Mohamed Chetouani (<a href="mailto:mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr" target="_blank">mohamed.chetouani@upmc.fr</a>). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfw" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/inde<wbr>x.php?id=cfw</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, during November 13-17, 2017. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface designs, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops on a day around the main conference to further foster the mingling and exchanges around new research, technology, social science models, application and business opportunities Examples of recent workshops include:</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Eye-Gaze and Multimodality</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Human-Computer Interaction System</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop on Smart Material Interfaces: Another Step to a M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e;white-space:pre-wrap">Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission procedure (submission via web site, via email, etc.) if applicable. Workshop organizers can rely on the ICMI submission system <a href="http://precisionconference.com/" target="_blank">precisionconference.com</a>, or use their preferred one, e.g. <a href="http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/cmt/" target="_blank">http://cmt.research.microsoft.<wbr>com/cmt/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.),</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission and acceptance deadlines (camera-ready and early registration deadlines for a workshop must coincide with the corresponding deadlines of ICMI 2017).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special space and equipment requests, if any.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop proposal submission: 22nd February 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance: 8th March 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready submission: TBA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop day: 13th November 2017</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Conference Information</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2017 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 13th and 17th November 2017. 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. ICMI 2017 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, grand challenges (due Jan 13th), workshops (due Feb 22nd), technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations, due May 12th), exhibits and doctoral consortium papers (due July 3rd) and demonstrations (due August 11th). The proceedings of ICMI'2017 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For up to date information, see the conference website: <a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/" target="_blank">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/</a></span><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