Call for Projects to eNTERFACE 2018

eNTERFACE 2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 6th ? 31st, 2018 The
14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces enterface18.org

piLab of ELEN/ICTEAM research group at Université Catholique de
Louvain invites project proposals for eNTERFACE?18, the 14th Summer
Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve,
from July 6th to 31st, 2018.
Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons
(Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007),
Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands,
2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon
(Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente
(Netherlands, 2016), Porto (Portugal, 2017), eNTERFACE?18 aims at
continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localised
research and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading
researchers in multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific
projects for 4 complete weeks.

Topics
This year?s special topics will be transmedia storytelling and deep
learning for improved interactions. There will be masterclasses around
those topics during the workshop.
Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or
several of the topics listed below:
- Art and Technology
- Affective Computing
- Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies
- Assistive Technologies for Education and Social Inclusion
- Augmented Reality
- Conversational Embodied Agents
- Human Behavior Analysis
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interactive Playgrounds
- Innovative Musical Interfaces
- Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
- Multimodal Interaction, Signal Analysis and Synthesis
- Multimodal Spoken Dialog Systems
- Search in Multimedia and Multilingual Documents
- Smart Spaces and Environments
- Social Signal Processing
- Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
- Teleoperation and Telerobotics
- Wearable Technology
- Virtual Reality

Important dates
March 10th, 2018 :Submission deadline: 1-page Notification of interest
for a project proposal with a summary of project goals, work-packages
and deliverables March 24th, 2018 : Submission deadline: Final project
proposal March 31st, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to project
leaders April 2nd, 2018 : Start Call for Participation, participants
can apply for projects May 11th, 2018 : Call for Participation is
closed May 14th, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to participants
June 1st, 2018 :  Teams are built 6th ? 31st July 2018 : eNTERFACE?18
Workshop

Proposals should be submitted to macq@ieee.org. They will be evaluated
by eNTERFACE Steering Committee with respect to the suitability to the
workshop goals and format. Authors of the accepted proposals will then
be invited to build their teams.