[Sigia-l] Final CFP: ACM Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) 2004

[Roel Vertegaal]

                   Final Call for Participation

					 ETRA
           Eye Tracking Research & Applications
                <http://www.e-t-r-a.org>
                     Symposium 2004
          22-24 March 2004, San Antonio, TX, USA

                      Sponsored by
          ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGGRAPH


MOTIVATION

Recent advancements in eye tracking technology, specifically the 
availability
of cheaper, faster, more accurate and easier to use trackers, have 
inspired
increased eye movement and eye tracking research efforts.  The Eye 
Tracking
Research & Applications (ETRA) 2000 and 2002 meetings brought together 
an
international and interdisciplinary group of researchers.  The success 
of
these meetings has laid the groundwork for future symposia (currently 
on a
biennial schedule).  Since the year 2000 meeting, reports of various 
novel
eye tracking applications have appeared, ranging from gaze-contingent
Level-Of-Detail computer graphics to Human-Computer Interaction 
applications,
from new psychophysical studies to the development of new eye tracking
technologies.  The motivation of the Symposium calls for the discussion 
of
both theoretical and applied eye tracking issues.  It is hoped this 
Symposium
will foster new interdisciplinary, collaborative ties as well as 
provide a
venue for dissemination of peer-reviewed research results in this 
burgeoning
research area.

SCOPE

This year's conference will feature a special session on Attentive User
Interfaces, or AUIs.  We especially invite any submission that uses eye
tracking for interactive input in determining focus of attention in 
human
computer interaction applications.

Applied papers reporting on the development or use of eye tracking 
systems
are sought falling in two main categories: (a) real-time interactive 
systems
and (b) off-line diagnostic applications.  Examples of the former 
include
applications where the display or form of interaction depends on 
real-time
knowledge of the user's gaze direction, e.g., "gaze-contingent" 
interactive
environments.  Applications falling in the latter category involve 
recording
real-time eye movements over a visual stimulus for later off-line 
analysis,
e.g., gaze information supporting usability, psychophysical, or 
neurological
studies (to name three examples).

While ETRA is primarily directed towards eye tracking applications, 
papers on
theoretical aspects of eye movements and cognition are also encouraged.
Examples may include papers elucidating the neurological substrate of 
human
vision, visual attention and eye movements, or papers suggesting 
techniques
for characterization and automatic identification of eye movements, 
e.g.,
saccade/fixation detection.

Suggested paper topics/categories include (but are not limited to):

  o Eye Movement Principles       o Pupillary/Blink Response
  o Eye Movement Analysis         o Attentive User Interfaces
  o Eye Tracking Systems          o Real-Time Systems
  o Visual Search                 o Gaze-Contingent Displays
  o Visual Attention              o Driving Applications
  o Eye Typing Applications       o Virtual Reality Applications
  o Usability                     o Cognition

FORMAT

Oral presentations will be short (about 20 minutes) and limited to 3 per
session.  Presenters are asked to prepare their presentations in MS 
PowerPoint
format.  An LCD projector will be provided to allow speakers to connect 
their
laptops.

A symposium program identifying accepted papers, listing contributors 
and
paper titles, will be made available before the event.

SUBMISSION

New for 2004, ETRA will be using an electronic paper submission system.
Full paper submissions should be uploaded via our electronic submission
web site: <http://submit.e-t-r-a.org/>.  The submission web site will be
available a short time before the paper due date.

Full paper submissions must be in PDF conforming to the ACM SIGGRAPH
proceedings format.  Further details and guidelines, including MS Word 
and
LaTeX templates, are available at the URL:
   <http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions/>

Brief formatting guidelines:
   o The maximum paper length is eight pages, each page in US
     Letter dimensions.  The body of the paper should be set in
     two-column style, with each column measuring 3.33 inches (8.46 cm)
     wide with a 0.34 inch (0.84 cm) gutter between the columns.

   o The "US Letter" page size measures 8.5 inches (21.59 cm) by 11.0 
inches
     (27.94 cm), with top, left, and right margins measuring 0.75 inches
     (1.905 cm), and a bottom margin of 1.0 inch (2.54 cm).

   o Papers should have a 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) space left blank at the 
bottom
     of the left column on the first page of the paper for the copyright
     block added during the printing process.

Papers submitted for peer-review should be in double-blind format.
Authors' names should be omitted from the front page, but a separate
cover page should be generated including title, an abstract, keywords 
and
phrases, authors' names, affiliations, plus a contact author's email 
address,
mailing address, phone number, and fax number.  Note: If you're using 
the
LaTeX format, the 'review' option will generate the paper in the 
required
review format automatically.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Andrew T. Duchowski
Dept. of Computer Science
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0974 USA
andrewd at e-t-r-a.org

Roel Vertegaal
Dept. of Computer Science
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
Canada K7L 3N6
roel at cs.queensu.ca

John W. Senders
Dept. of Mech. & Indust. Eng.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Canada M6R 2X5
jw.senders at utoronto.ca

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Arnon Amir (IBM Almaden, USA)
Wendy Ark (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Mike Daily (HRL Laboratories, USA)
Myron Flickner (IBM Almaden, USA)
Kikuo Fujimura (Honda Research Institute, USA)
James Gips (Boston College, MA, USA)
Joe Goldberg (Oracle, USA)
Brooke Hallowell (Ohio University, OH, USA)
Riad Hammoud (Delphi-Delco, USA)
Anthony Hornof (University of Oregon, USA)
Tom Hutchinson (University of Virginia, VA, USA)
Aulikki Hyrskykari (University of Tampere, Finland)
Robert Jacob (Tufts University, MA, USA)
Keith Karn (Xerox, NY, USA)
David Luebke (University of Virginia, VA, USA)
Lester Loschky (University of Illinois, USA)
Arantxa Villaneuva Larre (Public University of Navarre, Spain)
Paivi Majaranta (University of Tampere, Finland)
Jeff Mulligan (NASA Ames, USA)
Claudia Mello-Thoms (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Darius Miniotas (University of Tampere, Finland)
Minoru Nakayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, AL, USA)
Takehiko Ohno (NIT, Japan)
Carol O'Sullivan (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Derrick Parkhurst (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Timo Partala (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kari-Jouko Raiha (University of Tampere, Finland)
Matthias Rauterberg (Technical University Eindhoven, Holland)
Waldemar Rojna (Consultant, Poznan, Poland)
Ron Schuchard (Emory University, USA)
Tom Schnell (University of Iowa, IA, USA)
Charles Scialfa (University of Calgary, Canada)
Manbir Sodhi (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Jochen Triesch (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Trent Victor (Volvo, Sweden)
David Wooding (University of Derby, UK)
Daniela Zambarbieri (University of Pavia, Italy)

DEADLINES

Sep. 22      Submission deadline
Oct. 27      Acceptance/rejection notice
Nov. 17      Paper authors send revised papers to proceedings producer
Feb. 22      Registration deadline
Mar. 22-24   Symposium

LOCATION

The Symposium will be held at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio, 
TX.
Please see the symposium web page for hotel rates and hotel reservation
information.