EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS
EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

Ielka van der Sluis
Gisela Redeker
Janina Wildfeuer

AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

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EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS

EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

Symposium | Call for Papers

Organisers

Ielka van der Sluis

Gisela Redeker

Janina Wildfeuer

multimodality • evaluation • reception • cognition

he symposium addresses how

multimodal analyses can be used for

and applied to the evaluation of

multimodal communication. It aims at

reviewing evaluation methods and

providing practical implications for the

design of accessible audio-visual texts.

While the use of multimodal resources

such as pictures, texts, sound and

moving images has become normal in

our communication, it is not self-evident

how these resources should effectively

be combined to guarantee the

envisioned understanding. Insights in

human processing principles and

empirical reception studies are needed

to evaluate multimodal design and to

inform the variety of theories and

methods in our broad multimodal

context.

The symposium concentrates on the

principles that underlie successful

communication by explicitly asking for

results from empirical reception studies

conducted with readers/users of

multimodal texts. We seek contributions

reporting empirical and corpus-based

studies of multimodal artefacts that

provide insights into how people

navigate an understand them.

Featured talks by Jana Holsanova, Lund

University, and James Pustejovsky,

Brandeis University, will provide

excellent starting points for our

discussions.

The symposium aims at gaining empirical and

theoretical insights into how readers and usersystematic empirical and corpus-based analyses and

that can provide practical implications for the design of

accessible audio-visual texts.

AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

• Standard presentations

12-20-minute presentations with a ppt.

The exact amount of time for each of these

presentations is up to the symposium

organizers and depends on the number of

abstracts accepted.

• Focused presentations

In pitches of 2-5 minutes, speakers advertise

the presentations that take place in the

dedicated focused presentation space where

the symposia attendants meet during lunch

or drinks.

All the focused multimodal presentations

include a poster. Additionally, these

presenters will have the opportunity to

upload a full 12-minute version of their paper

(video/audio, ppt) to the AILA website for

exposure for a full year after presenting at

AILA 2020.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

Your submission will need to include the following:

• Author(s) and affiliation(s)

• Title: max. 20 words

• Abstract: max. 300 words

• Summary for program: max. 50 words

• Submit your paper proposal via the 'submit your paper'-link on

https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers .

DATES

Submission deadline 16 September 2019

Notification by 18 November 2019