Call for Papers

Whilst the usage of multisensory technologies in the education area is rapidly expanding, the need for solid scientific bases, design guidelines, and appropriate procedures for evaluation is emerging. Moreover, the introduction of multimodal interactive systems in the learning environment needs to develop at the same time suitable pedagogical paradigms. The 1st International Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for Education (MIE2017) aims at investigating how multimodal interactive systems, robustly grounded on psychophysical, psychological, and pedagogical bases, can be designed, developed, and exploited for enhancing teaching and learning processes in different learning environments, with a special focus on children in the classroom. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, including pedagogy, psychology, psychophysics, and computer science – with a particular focus on human-computer interaction, affective computing, and social signal processing – to discuss such challenges under a multidisciplinary perspective.

The workshop is partially supported by the EU-H2020-ICT Project weDRAW. The goal of weDRAW is to introduce a new teaching paradigm, based on multisensory interaction, that exploits the most effective sensory channel in children.

A special issue of a journal based on selected contributions from the workshop is planned.

Workshop topics

We encourage submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Open challenges in multisensory technologies for education;
- Pedagogical frameworks and paradigms exploiting multimodal interaction;
- Psychophysics evidence supporting multimodal interaction for education;
- Design methodologies of multimodal interactive systems for education;
- Techniques for multimodal analysis of learners behavior;
- Models of multimodal interaction in the learning environment;
- Multimodal analysis of learning-related affective states;
- Multimodal analysis of social signals in the learning environment;
- Multimodal interfaces for education;
- Methodologies for assessment and evaluation;
- Case studies;
- Systems and applications (e.g., serious games).

Author instructions

We invite the submission of papers (max 8 pages), short papers and demos (max 4 pages) with accompanying poster. According to the ICMI 2017 guidelines, the reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names, affiliations or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., "Smith [5] approached this problem by....") - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. If a non-anonymous paper has already been submitted, please re-submit with the identifying information removed. The workshop chairs are likely to desk reject non-anonymous papers. The results described in the submission must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format.

For templates and examples please follow the links:
Word: http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acm_windows_word_template.zip
Latex: http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip
For more information on how to format your contribution please look also at the submission guidelines of the ICMI Conference.

The papers should be submitted to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mie2017).
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper submission and acceptance deadlines

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 30, 2017


Notification to authors: August 18, 2017
Camera-ready: August 31, 2017
Workshop: November 13, 2017

Workshop organizers and chairs

Gualtiero Volpe
Casa Paganini - InfoMus
DIBRIS – University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
gualtiero.volpe@unige.it

Monica Gori
U-Vip Unit
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Genoa, Italy
Monica.Gori@iit.it

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
UCL Interaction Centre
University College London
London, United Kingdom
n.berthouze@ucl.ac.uk
Gabriel Baud-Bovy
RBCS Unit
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Genoa, Italy
Gabriel.Baud-bovy@iit.it

Paolo Alborno
Casa Paganini - InfoMus
DIBRIS – University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
paoloalborno@gmail.com

Erica Volta
Casa Paganini - InfoMus
DIBRIS – University of Genoa
Genoa, Italy
erica.volta@edu.unige.it

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