SICSA MMI Summer School in Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism  University of St Andrews Organisers: Aaron Quigley, Eva Hornecker, Jon Oberlander and Stephen Brewster The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed on the painting, statue, mountain, ski run, castle, loch or other sight before them. In this school we focus on multimodal input and output interfaces, data fusion techniques and hybrid architectures, vision-based interfaces, speech and conversational interfaces, haptic interfaces, mobile, tangible and virtual/augmented multimodal interfaces, tools and system infrastructure issues for designing interfaces and their evaluation. We have structured this summer school as a blend of theory and practice. Mornings are devoted to seminars from our international speakers followed by guided group work sessions or focussed time for project development. We are proving a dedicated lab with development machines for the duration of the school along with access to a MERL Diamondtouch, a Microsoft Surface (v1.0), a range of mobile devices, arduino devices, phidget kits, pico-projectors, Kinect devices and haptic output devices. As we expect participants from a range of backgrounds to attend we will form groups who will, through a guided process, propose a demonstrator they can realise during the summer school which they will demonstrate and showcase on the final day. Seminar Topics - Multimodal Interaction for Digital Tourism - Multimodal Interaction with the Android platform - Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites - Multimodal Interaction with spatial data - Speech-driven, hands-free, eyes-free navigation - Haptic Tabletop Interaction for Digital Tourism - Natural language generation for Multimodal Interaction - Mobility as a challenge for interaction design, Tourism as a special case - Multimodal Augmented-Reality Interaction for Digital Tourism - Designing context aware-systems Speakers - Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow - Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews - Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde - Antonio Krüger, Saarland University - William Mackaness, University of Edinburgh - Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary - Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh - Antti Oulasvirta, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology - Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews - Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart |