The 4th COGAIN Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction
COGAIN2008:
Communication, Environment and Mobility Control by Gaze
2-3 September 2008
Prague, Czech Republic
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
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
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 at
http://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,
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