SKILLS 09 Conference

[IzkaraJoseLuis]

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* Call for PAPERS & HANDS-ON DEMOS *
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* SKILLS 09: ENACTION on SKILLS *
* http://www.ceit.es/skills2009 *
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* December 15- 16 2009, Bilbao, Spain *
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SCOPE:
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SKILLS09 is a major international conference and an important opportunity for researchers in the field of Multimodal Interfaces for human Skills transfer.

Training of human skills is state-of-the-art research on Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) and Psychology. There are many manual skills and activities where human learners find the symbolic and iconic information difficult to remap into movement patterns. Something that is represented in an objective space must be translated in the subjective space of the body, where many actions are automatic and not consciously controlled. Enactive representations of the task seek to bridge this gap.

Enactive knowledge is not simply multisensory mediated knowledge, but knowledge stored in the form of motor responses and acquired by the act of "doing". A typical example of enactive knowledge is constituted by the competence required for tasks such as driving a car, playing a musical instrument, modelling objects from clay, performing sports, etc., which would be difficult to describe in an iconic or symbolic form. This type of knowledge transmission can be considered the most direct, in natural and intuitive terms, since it is based on the experience and on the perceptual responses to motor acts.

This conference will present and discuss recent developments in the application of the concept of Enaction for the transfer of manual human skills. Papers are welcome in all topics related to skills conceptualization and transfer processes, from skill capturing to skill rendering and assessment.


TOPICS:
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The program committee invites researchers, innovators and theorists to submit papers and posters on all topics related to human skills analysis, Enactive Interfaces, Interaction and Systems, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Theoretical Aspects
–Training/learning techniques both at cognitive and sensorimotor level
–Skill Acquisition: models and evaluation
–Methodology of skill analysis and capturing
–Neuroscience and experimental psychology

Technologies for skills transfer
–Skills capturing systems
–Skills rendering systems
–Multimodal and Enactive Interfaces
–Human Computer Interaction
–Cross-modal interactions

Application and Uses
–Sports
–Entertainment and Games
–Medicine and Rehabilitation
–Art
–Industrial applications

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Call for papers and hands-on demos Feb. 20th, 2009
Paper Registration and abstract submission May 1st, 2009
Paper submission May 15th, 2009
Acceptance notification for papers July 15th, 2009
Deadline for demo proposals August 31th, 2009
Camera ready Sep. 30th, 2009
Hands-on demo instalation Dec. 14th 2009
Conference Dec 15th-16th, 2009


SUBMISSION:
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Paper submission will be handled electronically. Papers must not exceed 6 pages double column including figures and references, using a 10 point or larger font. More details on the conference web page.


PUBLICATION:
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Besides the publication of papers and posters in the Proceedings of the conference with an ISBN number, a selection of revised papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)


CHAIRS:
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Emilio Sánchez (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain)
Teresa Gutiérrez (LABEIN, Spain)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
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Fundamental research and Theories:
- Benoît Bardy (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
- Daniel Gopher (TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Technology:
- Uli Bockholt (FhG-IDG, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany)
- Florian Gosselin (CEA-LIST, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique- Laboratoire d' Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies, France)
- Carsten Preuche (DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechantronics)

Applications:
- Massimo Bergamasco (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
- Uwe Zimmermann (KUKA, Germany)

Hands-on Demos:
- Iker Aguinaga (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain)
- Ana Rosa Carrillo (LABEIN, Spain)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE:
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Carlo Alberto Avizzano (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Denis Mottet (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
Emanuele Ruffaldi (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Antonio Frisoli (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Franco Techia (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Grigori Evreinov (University of Tampere, Finland)
Sile O'Modhrain (Queens University, Belfast, UK)
Dorte Hammershøi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Tony Chabiron (HAPTION, France)
Andrew Stoddart (OMG, UK)
Marco Vescovi (SIMONAZZI, Italy)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
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This conference is co-funded by the Europen Commission

[IzkaraJoseLuis]

************************************************** ***********
* *
* Call for PAPERS & HANDS-ON DEMOS *
* *
* SKILLS 09: ENACTION on SKILLS *
* http://www.ceit.es/skills2009 *
* *
* December 15- 16 2009, Bilbao, Spain *
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* EXTENDED DEADLINE *
* *
************************************************** ***********

SCOPE:
---------------
SKILLS09 is a major international conference and an important opportunity for researchers in the field of Multimodal Interfaces for human Skills transfer.

Training of human skills is state-of-the-art research on Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) and Psychology. There are many manual skills and activities where human learners find the symbolic and iconic information difficult to remap into movement patterns. Something that is represented in an objective space must be translated in the subjective space of the body, where many actions are automatic and not consciously controlled. Enactive representations of the task seek to bridge this gap.

Enactive knowledge is not simply multisensory mediated knowledge, but knowledge stored in the form of motor responses and acquired by the act of "doing". A typical example of enactive knowledge is constituted by the competence required for tasks such as driving a car, playing a musical instrument, modelling objects from clay, performing sports, etc., which would be difficult to describe in an iconic or symbolic form. This type of knowledge transmission can be considered the most direct, in natural and intuitive terms, since it is based on the experience and on the perceptual responses to motor acts.

This conference will present and discuss recent developments in the application of the concept of Enaction for the transfer of manual human skills. Papers are welcome in all topics related to skills conceptualization and transfer processes, from skill capturing to skill rendering and assessment.


TOPICS:
------------------
The program committee invites researchers, innovators and theorists to submit papers and posters on all topics related to human skills analysis, Enactive Interfaces, Interaction and Systems, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Theoretical Aspects
–Training/learning techniques both at cognitive and sensorimotor level
–Skill Acquisition: models and evaluation
–Methodology of skill analysis and capturing
–Neuroscience and experimental psychology

Technologies for skills transfer
–Skills capturing systems
–Skills rendering systems
–Multimodal and Enactive Interfaces
–Human Computer Interaction
–Cross-modal interactions

Application and Uses
–Sports
–Entertainment and Games
–Medicine and Rehabilitation
–Art
–Industrial applications

IMPORTANT DATES:
---------------------------------------------
Call for papers and hands-on demos Feb. 20th, 2009
Paper Registration and abstract submission May 18th, 2009
Paper submission May 31st, 2009
Acceptance notification for papers July 15th, 2009
Deadline for demo proposals August 31th, 2009
Camera ready Sep. 30th, 2009
Hands-on demo installation Dec. 14th 2009
Conference Dec 15th-16th, 2009


SUBMISSION:
-----------------------------
Paper submission will be handled electronically. Papers must not exceed 6 pages double column including figures and references, using a 10 point or larger font. More details on the conference web page.


PUBLICATION:
-------------------------------
Besides the publication of papers and posters in the Proceedings of the conference with an ISBN number, a selection of revised papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)


CHAIRS:
------------------
Emilio Sánchez (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain)
Teresa Gutiérrez (LABEIN, Spain)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
-------------------------------------------------
Fundamental research and Theories:
- Benoît Bardy (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
- Daniel Gopher (TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Technology:
- Uli Bockholt (FhG-IDG, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany)
- Florian Gosselin (CEA-LIST, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique- Laboratoire d' Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies, France)
- Carsten Preusche (DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechantronics)

Applications:
- Massimo Bergamasco (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
- Uwe Zimmermann (KUKA, Germany)

Hands-on Demos:
- Iker Aguinaga (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain)
- Ana Rosa Carrillo (LABEIN, Spain)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
-----------------------------------------------
Carlo Alberto Avizzano (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Denis Mottet (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
Emanuele Ruffaldi (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Antonio Frisoli (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Franco Tecchia (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Grigori Evreinov (University of Tampere, Finland)
Sile O'Modhrain (Queens University, Belfast, UK)
Dorte Hammershøi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Tony Chabiron (HAPTION, France)
Andrew Stoddart (OMG, UK)
Marco Vescovi (SIMONAZZI, Italy)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
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This conference is co-funded by the European Commission