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The 4th COGAIN Annual Conference on
Communication by Gaze Interaction
COGAIN2008:Communication, Environment and Mobility Control by Gaze
Prague
Czech Republic
2nd - 3rd September 2008
The 4th international COGAIN conference on eye gaze interaction has
communication, environmental control and mobility control as its main
themes. These three aspects together constitute the means to give people
with severe motor disabilities independence in their daily lives. Eye
gaze
is often the most effective means of interacting with devices associated
with these. Much progress has been made in developing eye tracking
systems with a high degree of usability, and in developing systems for
text entry using gaze. There are now new approaches to text entry and
communication which offer higher input rates than have been previously
possible. It is also important to consider enabling communication with
mobile devices as well as conventional screen based applications, and to
consider also how low cost, less accurate gaze systems can best be
utilised. There are now research questions too about how to best to
extend
the use of gaze and enable users to interact with the local environment
and to control mobility devices such as scooters and wheelchairs. A
Danish
person with motor neuron disease and an experienced user of gaze
communication devices said recently "One of the future challenges should
be to make a computer so that you can drive the wheelchair (safely!)
using
only an eye tracker". Gaze control has the potential to make really
significant improvements to the quality of life of people with severe
motor impairments. The COGAIN conferences are the major international
events which focus particularly on gaze communication for people with
disabilities.
Now in its 4th year, COGAIN (COmmunication by GAze INteraction) is a
European Union funded research Network of Excellence, which comprises 25
universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations from across the
European Union together with partners from across the globe. More
information about the COGAIN network can be found at www.cogain.org. The
proceedings of COGAIN2005 (Copenhagen), COGAIN2006 (Turin) and
COGAIN2007
(Leicester) are available from the site.
Call for Papers
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The conference committee invites the submission of short papers
particularly in the following areas, although submissions in any area
related to gaze-based interaction will be considered.
" Gaze and environmental control
" Gaze and personal mobility control
" Direct interaction with gaze aware real world objects
" User experience studies
" Innovations in eye tracking systems
" Low cost gaze tracking systems
" Attentive interfaces and inferring user intent from gaze
" Text entry by means of gaze
" Gaze-based interaction with virtual worlds
" Gaze and creativity
" Gaming using gaze as an input modality
" Using gaze with other modalities including BCI
Papers which deal with the use of eye gaze to study the usability of
mainstream applications and websites are not normally considered for
inclusion in the conference.
Format of the conference and proceedings
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The public conference will be a two-day event as last year, the first
day
having themed paper sessions, and the second having user and industry
presentations as well as the exhibition of systems. The paper sessions
will present short papers and authors of some of these will be invited
to
produce full papers for a special edition of a journal. Full submission
details can be found on the COGAIN website (www.cogain.org/cogain2008)
Important Dates:
Submission deadline for short papers : 31/05/08
Notification of acceptance: 15/07/08
COGAIN2008 Conference/Exhibition: 2-3/09/08
Please send submissions to Howell Istance, Program Chair COGAIN2008,
School of Computing, De Montfort University, Leicester UK,
email: [log in to unmask]
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Howell Istance tel: 0116 2506103
School of Computing fax: 0116 2078159
De Montfort University web:
www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hoi
Leicester LE1 9BH, UK mail: [log in to unmask]
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