Wednesday 15th December 2010, 10:00-16:00 University of Glasgow Organisers: Martin Halvey, Marilyn McGee-Lennon and David Mcgookin There is a great deal of research being conducted in the area of multimodal interaction in Scotland. Tomorrow's interfaces between humans and computers will be less intrusive, more personal and more integrated than today's. Developing such interfaces demands a new understanding of interactions between people and information; new means of structuring vast amounts of information; and ways of integrating multiple rich communication channels. There is an increasing realisation that the engineering of multimodal interactive systems is challenging. Few researchers or even research centres are expert in addressing all of the associated issues. This workshop welcomes participation from researchers studying people, information and the interactions between them, including but not limited to: · Design and development of interactive systems · Evaluation of multimodal interfaces · Information access, understanding and retrieval · Multimodal interaction for specific groups e.g. older users, children etc. · Designing hardware to support mobile multimodality The aim of the workshop is to bring together early career researchers (for example post docs and junior lecturers) to make new contacts, learn what other people are working on and how that might influence your research and form new collaborations across universities, one of the key aims of SICSA. In the morning you will get the opportunity to let others know what you are working on in a Madness style session. In the afternoon, the focus will be on the challenges we face in our research and how we can overcome them. There will be a relatively open agenda with scope for networking and discussion. We hope that the workshop will help foster strong research partnerships within the SICSA network, there by strengthening Scotland’s position as an international research center for multimodal interaction. |