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We are pleased to announce details for our SICSA Multimodal
Systems for Digital Tourism summer school here in the University
of St Andrews this summer. Applications to attend are now open.
We do apologise if you receive duplicates of this posting.
Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism
SICSA Summer School
St Andrews, Scotland, June 27th - July 1, 2011
sachi.org.uk/mmi-dt
The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers
to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of
applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where
mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist
aims to keep their eyes up and focussed on the painting, statue, mountain, ski
run, castle, loch or other sight before them. In this school we focus on
multimodal input and output interfaces, data fusion techniques and hybrid
architectures, vision, speech and conversational interfaces, haptic interaction,
mobile, tangible and virtual/augmented multimodal UIs, tools and system
infrastructure issues for designing interfaces and their evaluation.
We have structured this summer school as a blend of theory and practice.
Mornings are devoted to seminars from our international speakers followed by
guided group work sessions or focussed time for project development. We are
providing a dedicated lab with development machines for the duration
of the school
along with access to a Diamondtouch, a Microsoft Surface (v1.0), a range
of mobile devices, arduinos, phidget kits, pico-projectors, Kinects and haptic
displays. As we expect participants from a range of backgrounds to attend we
will form groups who will, through a guided process, propose a demonstrator
they can realise during the summer school which they will demonstrate and
showcase on the final day.
In addition, Ben Arent a leading interaction designer based in Dublin has
agreed to host (subject to sufficient interest) a day long Arduino workshop
for interested participants on Sunday June 26th.
Seminar Topics
- Multimodal Interaction for Digital Tourism
- Multimodal Interaction with the Android platform
- Creating Engaging Visitor Experiences in Museums and Heritage sites
- Multimodal Interaction with spatial data
- Speech-driven, hands-free, eyes-free navigation
- Haptic Tabletop Interaction for Digital Tourism
- Natural language generation for Multimodal Interaction
- Mobility as a challenge for interaction design, Tourism as a special case
- Multimodal Augmented-Reality Interaction for Digital Tourism
- Designing context aware-systems
Speakers
- Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
- Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews
- Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde
- Antonio Krüger, Saarland University
- William Mackaness, University of Edinburgh
- Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary
- Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh
- Antti Oulasvirta, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
- Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews
- Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart
The deadline for applications to attend is May 3rd, with notifications
by May 9th. Participation is limited to 30 and we expect a mix of both
national and international participants. The registration fee is £450,
which covers four nights of accommodation (Mon - Fri) in St Andrews,
breakfast, lunch, dinner and summer school materials. Also
included is a welcome reception and farewell dinner. An optional
Arduino workshop (with Sunday night accommodation) is an
additional £70.
The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
is providing 16 grants to cover the £450 registration fee for PhD
students from most Scottish Universities. See SICSA website
for details: http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/
See the summer school website for a full programme, biographies
of speakers and full details for applications: http://sachi.org.uk/mmi-dt
The school is directed by Aaron Quigley (University of St Andrews),
Eva Hornecker (University of Strathclyde), Jon Oberlander (University
of Edinburgh) and Stephen Brewster (University of Glasgow).
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Chair of Human Computer Interaction
SACHI, School Of Computer Science
North Haugh
The University of St Andrews
Fife KY16 9SX, Scotland
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