CALL FOR PAPERS 

                 COGAIN 2006: GAZING INTO THE FUTURE
 
   The COGAIN 2006 Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction
 

                         4-5 September 2006
 
                            Turin, Italy
 


OVERVIEW 

The conference provides a unique focus on  
communication by eye-gaze. It concentrates on the  
use of eye-gaze primarily for users with  
different types of disabilities in the context of  
interacting with computer applications,  
environment control and mobility. The conference  
has a strong involvement with disabled users and  
forms a vital bridge between those who develop  
gaze measurement and communication systems, those  
who research into the construction and use, and  
those who actually use, or could use, the  
systems. There is a strong emphasis in the  
conference on a range of subjects from technical  
issues to disabled user requirements and  
usability issues. The conference is the second  
annual conference of COGAIN, a European Union  
funded research Network of Excellence, which  
comprises 25 universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations. 

The theme of the conference is defining the  
future in terms of a research agenda for gaze-based communication. 


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE 

The conference will be run over two days: 
Day 1 (Monday 4th September, 2006): Academic Sessions 
Day 2 (Tuesday 5th September, 2006): User and Industry Sessions 

The academic sessions (Day 1) depart from the  
traditional format of paper presentations and  
instead will take the form of 4 workshops. The  
proceedings will be in three parts: a collection  
of short papers from participants published on  
the conference web-site and made available at the  
conference; an edited summary of the workshop  
sessions in the form of text and video and a  
special edition of the Journal of Universal  
Access in the Information Society, which will  
contain papers from invited participants based on  
their short papers and contributions to the workshop sessions. 

Each workshop will have a theme around which the  
short papers will be collected, and the session  
chair will present a state-of-the-art position  
summary for each theme, together with a series of  
issues for the conference participants to  
address. All participants are invited to submit a  
short position paper that summarises their own  
work to date, and where they believe the  
priorities for the future lie. The provisional set of themes is: 

* Eyetracking systems: low-cost systems, mobile  
systems, software, algorithms, calibration  
techniques and issues, integration with operating systems, standards. 
* Gaze-aware communication software: eye-typing  
systems, interfaces to common applications,  
end-user configuration, gaze-aware applications, edutainment. 
* Integration of gaze with other modalities:  
multimodal interaction, user performance and  
preference studies, attentive interfaces, gaze and brain integration. 
* Human factors and user-related issues:  
Requirements for various disabled user groups,  
measuring usability with disabled groups,  
usability issues with gaze-based systems, case  
studies of user experience with gaze  
communication, training in the use of gaze-communication. 

The user and industry sessions (Day 2) will  
follow a similar format to the successful event  
held in Copenhagen during COGAIN 2005 Conference.  
The sessions will contain presentations from  
users of gaze-based systems, from representatives  
of end-user organizations and from industry, as  
well as opportunities for end users and  
researchers to try out the latest systems from  
the participating manufacturers. One of the most  
valuable aspects of last year's meeting was the  
opportunity it gave the academic research  
community and industry to meet, listen to, and  
observe users of gaze-based systems, and to  
understand their priorities and needs for system  
design and use. Furthermore, the session will  
provide manufacturers an ideal and unique  
opportunity to showcase their products to a  
highly specialist audience of those active and  
interested in gaze-based communication.  
Photographs of last year's event are available  
at www.cogain.org/photos. 


IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission of short papers: 31st May 2006 
Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006 
Workshops at Conference: 4th September 2006 
Invitation to submit Journal Papers: 30th September 2006 
Deadline for Submission of Journal Papers: 31st January 2007 


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 

Authors are requested to submit their short  
papers (c. 1000 - 1500 words) using the COGAIN  
conference format (for a template and  
instructions, see  
http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006). A condition of  
acceptance is that at least one of the authors will attend the conference.  
Best papers will be invited to submit full long papers for a special issue in  
the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal. The special  
edition editors in consultation with the editor in chief of the journal will  
distribute the papers to three reviewers who are experts in the field. 

The text should be clear enough to allow  
reviewers to judge the potential of the paper's  
suitability for COGAIN 2006. The suitability of  
the paper will be judged on the following criteria: 

* Originality 
* Statements of main results obtained so far (need not be final results) 
* Clear identification of future research needs 
* Clarity of presentation 
* Technical soundness 


Authors are requested to email their paper for consideration to Howell Istance: 
Email: [log in to unmask] 
Tel: +44 (0)116 2506103 

Conference Co-Chairs 
Howell Istance (De Montfort University) 
Laura Farinetti (Politecnico di Torino) 

More information is available at http://www.cogain.org/cogain2006 

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