<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-92ff4de7-042e-25f9-c81c-5c6589ff5fb6"><p dir="ltr" style="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="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="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="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/">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">First Call for Papers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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 May 12th, 2017. Rebuttals July 21st-July 25th. Decisions on August 25th. Camera Ready due Sept 22nd.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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: <a href="http://precisionconference.com/~icmi">http://precisionconference.com/~icmi</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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><p dir="ltr" style="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 19th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. 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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">This year, ICMI welcomes contributions on human-computer interaction as a particular topic of interest. We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community.  ICMI 2017 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. 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><p dir="ltr" style="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">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Affective Computing and interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gesture, touch and haptics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Healthcare, assistive technologies</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Human communication dynamics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interaction with smart environment</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Machine learning for multimodal interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mobile multimodal systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal behavior generation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal datasets and validation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal dialogue modeling</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal fusion and representation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multimodal interactive applications</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speech behaviors in social interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">System components and multimodal platforms</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Visual behaviors in social interaction</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">Submission Process</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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">There are two different submission categories:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Long paper :The maximum length is 8 pages in the two-column ACM conference format (excluding references). An accompanying demonstration can be presented during the demo session (see Demonstration section). Accepted long papers will be presented as either a long talk or a poster.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short paper :The maximum length is 4 pages in the two-column ACM conference format (excluding references). Accepted short papers will be presented as either a short talk or a poster.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">There will be a mixture of oral and poster presentations at the conference. The decision of a poster or an oral presentation will be made by the program committee. Please note that the main difference between short and long papers is in the size of contributions and not in the importance of the contributions. In other words, a paper in eight pages will be expected to have more contribution than one with four pages. Rejected long papers will not be considered for acceptance as short papers, unless the reviewers unanimously believe this is the right decision. Authors are asked to carefully consider the category of each submitted paper.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">Rebuttal Period</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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">During this period (from July 21st to July 25th, 2017), authors will be able to see the reviews and post a short rebuttal addressing any major misinterpretation or error. The rebuttal period will be followed by a discussion period between the reviewers and Senior Program Committee members (not visible to authors). Authors will be notified of the final decision on August 25th, 2017.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">Online Submission</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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 online paper submissions is through Precision Conference: <a href="https://precisionconference.com/~icmi/">https://precisionconference.com/~icmi/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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">Extra material (e.g. videos) up to 40MB can be attached in the same submission website.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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="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: 12th May 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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">Rebuttal period: July 21st to July 25th</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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: 25th August 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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: September 22nd, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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">Conference dates: 13th-17th November 2017</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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">More info: <a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfp">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfp</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="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="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="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><p dir="ltr" style="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/">https://icmi.acm.org/2017/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="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></span></div>