CfP: WIMA 2010

Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA)
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held as special session in conjunction with
USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

November 4th-5th 2010
Klagenfurt, Austria

URL: http://tinyurl.com/wima2010

Multimedia applications have become ubiquitous lately. People record and
watch videos on mobile and stationary devices, they use non linear video
editors, and they share and organize their personal multimedia archives.
Lots of research has been done on the technical aspects of multimedia,
like streaming, presentation, transcoding, adaptation and content based
retrieval and analysis. But handling multimedia is an interactive
process and users have to be taken into account. Even consumption is
often accompanied with communication, non linear browsing and search.
This interactivity in multimedia applications is a challenging yet very
promising topic as especially in multimedia applications people more
often accept innovative ideas and fundamental changes more easily.

This workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners from
the fields of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI).
In this workshop we aim to discuss recent scientific advances and also
first results of greenhouse work in the field of interactive multimedia
applications. We also encourage the submission of papers presenting
studies on interactivity in multimedia systems or discussing the
development of applications in this field.

Topics of interest
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Topics include the aspects of interactivity in the following fields:

* Multimedia Retrieval, Browsing & Navigation
* User Intentions in Multimedia Search, Annotation & Production
* Multimedia Production and Post-Production
* Multimedia in Specialized Domains (e.g. Medical Scenarios, Sports,
Security, etc.)
* Image, Audio and Video Analysis
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia on the Web
* Social Multimedia
* Multimedia Management and Databases
* Distributed Multimedia Systems

We also encourage the submission of greenhouse work and preliminary
results to be discussed in the workshop.

Submission
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

* Full papers (14-20 pages)
* Short papers (6-14 pages)
* Posters (4 pages)

All papers have to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style.
Submission is handled by easychair, see http://tinyurl.com/wima2010 for
details.

Important Dates
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* July 11, 2010 EXTENDED Deadline for Paper Submission
* July 30, 2010 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* August 22, 2010 Camera-Ready Deadline
* Nov 4 & 5, 2010 USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure

Program Committee
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* Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Dalibor Mitrovic, TU Wien, AT
* Frank Hopfgartner, International Computer Science Institute, USA
* Harald Kosch, University of Passau, DE
* Mario Döller, University of Passau, DE
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, AT
* Martha Larson, TU Delft, NL
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, US
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, P.R. China
* Vincent Charvillait, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, FR
* Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, AT
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen, DE
* Yu Cao, California State University of Fresno, US

Workshop Chairs
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* Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, AT
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, AT

For further questions please contact the program chairs at
wima2010@itec.uni-klu.ac.at

The Image of New York City – Salute to Frank Lloyd Wright

By the end of May 2010 I attended the 11th MDM Conference in Kansas City. Right after the conference I flew to New York City to visit one of my best friends Awen, and to visit the amazing NYC. It was a cloudy Thursday, while the sun came out sometimes shortly. Without sunshine NYC was still struck me as one of the most amazing, fabulous, and impressive cities.
Besides the landmarks like Statue of Liberty, any building on the corner could become another landmark of NYC. The city is a live museum of modern and contemporary architecture. Actually, USA is the cradle of modern architecture. Two of the three most important architects of modernism from Europe went to the States in 1930s, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Only Le Corbusier lived in Europe. Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the greatest modern architects from the States. If the number counts, 3 of those 4 are from Europe, while 3 of those 4 have lived in USA in the end. To trace Frank Lloyd Wright seems to be somehow one of my goals at traveling to the states, since I happened to visit his Robbie House in Chicago in the spring of 2005.

S.R. Guggenheim Museum is the last masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. It is really a pity that the museum was opened six months after Wright’s death. How did a 92-year old man think of lives in his last period of life? What kind of architectural work he liked to leave to the public? Was it to save the last to best? Getting off the subway line C at West 86th Street, I walked along the big lake in Central Park on the late afternoon. As I was approaching the east part of the city, I could almost see Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from some view points. It is bigly-round, outstanding white, thus, remarkable. The air in Central Park was fresh, the walk was delighting, and I was like a sincere pilgrim.

I had imagined S.R. Guggenheim Museum for many times since many years. It would look outstanding and unbalanced with its partial reverse white cylinder. It would look huge and upscale on a narrow NYC street. It would look like a strange snail. It would look … But at that time when I came to stand in front of it, I lost all my words. It is beyond any of my imaginations.

S.R. Guggenheim Museum Building is complete due to the repeated round motif. Many round elements are applied in different sizes by the architect, from the main cylinder to detailed window frame. It is elegant, because of the simpleness. Only round and square elements are in use. It is demure due to the white cement façade with merely a few windows. The sculptural essential is just a featured part beside stars in urban spaces. This reduces the contrast to the environment somehow. It also makes the museum actually fit the environment on the Fifth Avenue much better. But it is not perfect, as many architectural critics have pointed out its sharp contrast to the typical Manhattan box buildings. The supplementary adjoining rectangular tower built in 1992 gives a good foundation of the old part. It makes the museum fit the street view better, while the other color than white does not influence the completeness of Wright’s masterpiece. The old part was not standalone any more, but got a steady background to lean. The museum is a compromise, because Wright gave up adopting his favorite red color for the façade. That kind of red façade does not belong to New York City’s color palette. The museum is even a little “insane”. A cylinder is not a good and appropriate form for museum design at all, because it is hard to display paintings on its curve interior walls. However, who cares these details except the curators?

What does Robbie House in Campus of Chicago University look like which was built a good half century before S.R. Museum? I found out some old photos from my last US trip. It looks like a kind of classical style. In the fact, it is not. It stretches to each direction and looks lower than its actual hight, in order to have a better dialogue with the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright never built a building without his stubborn innovation, whatever a big or a small innovation point. He was a great architect paving a revolutionary way.

The museum was close shortly before 6 pm. I was not able to go inside. But I got a Lego model of it with 280 pieces. I am making my Lego masterpiece of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

CfP: MONET'10

Fifth International Workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications (MONET'10) will take place in Crete, Greece, Oct 25-29, 2010.

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag. The best papers of the workshop, opportunely extended, will be selected for a special issue on an international journal.

The aim of the workshop is to gather researchers, from academia and industry, and practitioners to discuss about new mobile and networking technologies, to identify challenging problems that appear in social applications of those technologies and to show results and experiences realized by researchers. The workshop will be organized in a way to stimulate interaction among the participants. Shorter position papers may be presented from researchers of all backgrounds, in particular social-mobile technologies, information networking, human-computer interaction, security and privacy.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Social networking technologies
• Social network analysis
• Mobile Social networks
• Social media technologies
• Semantic web
• Mobile and network security and privacy
• Web and mobile accessibility
• knowledge Sharing and management
• Human-computer interaction
• Multi-modal applications
• Online communities and Social Computing
• Wireless technologies and services
• Mobile applications and services
• Mobile social services
• Mobile business services
• Future mobile applications

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline: Jun 15
Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 30
Acceptance Notification: Jul 30
Camera Ready Due: Aug 13
Registration Due: Sep 3