SIMPE 2009 - Fourth Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments SiMPE2009

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Category SIMPE 2009

Deadline: May 18, 2009 | Date: September 15, 2009

Venue/Country: Bonn, Germany

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

(in conjunction with ACM MobileHCI '09)

Bonn, Germany

September 15, 2009

http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE

Organizers

Amit A. Nanavati, IBM Research, India.

Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India..

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Markku Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland.

Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA.

Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA.

Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research, USA.

Program Committee

Abeer Alwan, UCLA, USA.

Alex Acero, Microsoft, USA.

Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK.

Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay, India..

Yoon Kim, Novauris Technologies, USA.

Lars Bo Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark..

Gary Marsden, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa.

Michael McTear, University of Ulster, Ireland..

Shrikanth S. Narayanan, USC, USA.

Sharon Oviatt, Incaa Designs, USA.

Antonio M. Peinado, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Ian Pitt, University College Cork, Ireland.

Jahanzeb Sherwani, CMU, USA.

Yaxin Zhang, Motorola, China.

Topics of Interest

All areas that enable, optimize or enhance speech in mobile and pervasive

environments and devices. Possible areas include, but are not restricted

to:

Speech Interfaces/Applications for Developing Regions

Speech User Interaction in Cars

Multilingual Speech Recognition

Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and Resource-Constrained Environments

Memory/Energy Efficient Algorithms

Multimodal User Interfaces for Mobile Devices

Protocols and Standards for Speech Applications

Distributed Speech Processing

Mobile Application Adaptation and Learning

Prototypical System Architectures

Design and Usability Testing of Mobile Interfaces

User Modeling

Submissions

We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories:

(a) Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to interesting

research directions,

(b) Early results or work-in-progress that has significant promise, or,

(c) Full papers.

Papers should be of 4-8 pages in length in the MobileHCI publication

format. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available at the ACM

Template site. All submissions should be in the PDF format and should be

submitted electronically through the workshop submission web site,

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpe09. Since the submission

deadlines are dependent on the MobileHCI conference, we will not be able to

grant any extensions in any circumstances.

We also welcome participation without paper submission.

Note: Since the workshop also aims to be a meeting point for researchers

working in this area, at least one author of accepted papers has to attend

the workshop to present their work, else the paper will not be included in

the final workshop proceedings. Participants who wish to attend the

workshop will have to register for the main conference as well.

For any comments regarding submissions and participation, contact: namit AT

in DOT ibm DOT com, rnitendra AT in DOT ibm DOT com, andrew.kun AT unh DOT

com.

Seed Questions

What are the usability issues with speech on mobile devices?

Are there efficient ways of enabling voice search on the device?

How to make voice UIs flexible and adaptive?

Are there any novel and easier ways to handle multiple languages and

dialects?

How do we construct speech systems with small footprints of memory and

power consumption?

How can we distribute processing more efficiently given the increased

available computing power on handhelds? How do we trade this off with

a remote server to conserve energy?

How can we design scalable speech applications?

How can we leverage context (such as location) to make more intelligent

UIs that reduce the `cognitive burden' of semi-literate/illiterate

users?

How to design speech interfaces that are safe and robust for using in

cars?

Key Dates

Position Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2009 (11:59 PM Amsterdam

Time)?

Notification of Acceptance: June 08, 2009

Early Registration Deadline: June 29, 2009,

Workshop: 8:45AM -- 5:00PM, September 15, 2009.

Websites:

SiMPE Workshop: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE

ACM MobileHCI '09 : http://www.mobilehci09.org/

SiMPE 2008: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/2008

SiMPE 2007: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/2007

SiMPE 2006: http://research.ihost.com/SiMPE/2006