GESTURE WORKSHOP 2001 (GW2001) FIRST CALL

[David M. Roy]

Please forgive inevitable cross postings
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**FIRST CALL**FIRST CALL**FIRST CALL**

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                           THE FOURTH
        INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
GESTURE AND SIGN LANGUAGE INTERACTION


+++ GESTURE WORKSHOP 2001 (GW2001) +++

                                     at
           CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON, UK
                    18th-20th APRIL 2001

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Indication of interest            As soon as possible
Deadline for submission       Friday 15th December 2000
Notification of acceptance   Monday 19th February 2001
Gesture Workshop 2001     Wednesday 18th – Friday 20th April 2001


IMPORTANT LINKS:
Indications of interest to gw2001 at zeric.co.uk
GW2001 website: http://www.zeric.co.uk/gw2001 (Active September 2000)


The International Gesture Workshop is a forum for the exchange of ideas
and research currently in progress across
disciplines. It aims to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration by
providing a platform for participants to share,
discuss and critique both research in progress and more completed
research with a multidisciplinary audience. You are
invited to submit work to be presented by paper, poster, or
demonstration and to attend the workshop. In addition to
welcoming submission of work by established researchers, it is the
tradition of the GW series of workshops to
encourage submission of student work at various stages of completion.

SCOPE AND TOPICS
Under the focus of human-computer communication, the workshop will
encompass all aspects of gestural and sign
language interaction,
including but not restricted to:

GESTURES AND SIGN LANGUAGE IN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION
* Automatic recognition and interpretation of gestures and sign language

* Automatic analysis and synthesis of gestures and sign language
* Computational representation of gestures and sign language, from
perceptual level to semantic level
* User issues, usability studies, application paradigms
* Gesture and human-movement tracking techniques
* System architectures
* Applications and demonstrator systems

NATURE OF GESTURE AND SIGN LANGUAGE
* Gestural and sign-language communication
* Gesture and sign language perception and production
* Modelling and analysis techniques
* Coding techniques

MULTIMODALITY
* Co-verbal gestures
* Fusion of gestures and other modalities: Architectures, level of
fusion, representation...
* Temporal relations between gestures, speech and other modalities
* Applications

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS AND CO-CHAIRS:
David Roy
david_roy at acm.org

Marilyn Panayi
panayi at zeric.co.uk

LOCAL ORGANISER AND CHAIR:
Professor Bencie Woll
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University, London, UK
b.woll at city.ac.uk
http://www.city.ac.uk

WEB SITE:
In September, the GW2001 website will be created with more details
including submission instructions, the list of
members of the international scientific committee, etc.

PUBLICATION:
In line with the practice of previous gesture workshops, accepted
participants will be invited to submit their papers for
publication in a subsequent peer-reviewed publication of high-quality.
In previous years, this has been published by
Springer (see below).

PREVIOUS GESTURE WORKSHOPS:
York, United Kingdom, March 1996 http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/gw96
Bielefeld, Germany, September 1997
http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/GW97/
Gif-sur-Yvette, France, March 1999 http://www.limsi.fr/GW99/

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Submissions will be electronic and the preferred format will be MS word
or rtf. The language should be English, the
language of the workshop. Submissions can be in the form of papers, up
to 12 pages. They can also be in the form of
posters or demonstrations, described in 2 pages. As the conference is
multidisciplinary, where possible, language
should be used that will be understood across disciplines i.e. reduce
the use of jargon to a minimum. Details will be
published on the website in September (http://www.zeric.co.uk/gw2001).


HOW TO GET THERE: City University is easily accessible by all forms of
public transport. Travelling from either
London Gatwick or London Heathrow is quick and straightforward. Its
central location in relation to many of
London’s attractions makes it an additionally interesting venue for the
workshop.
http://www.city.ac.uk/city/info/travel.htm

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ATTENDANCE INTENTION FORM
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I am interested in attending or presenting work at the 4th
Gesture Workshop in April 18th - April 20th 2001 at City University,
London, UK

Please check:
- I intend to participate in the workshop.
- I would like to present work.
- my prefered form of presentation would be (check one):
 paper
 poster
 demonstration

Please give a short statement about your relation to the
workshop theme:

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Feel free to make any comments concerning the workshop: