Call for Participation
The
NUMEDIART Institute for Creative Technology of University of Mons, Belgium, invites researchers to join
eNTERFACE’15, the 11th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, the
European Capital of Culture 2015,
from August 10th to September 4th, 2015. eNTERFACE workshops gather in a single place a team of senior project leaders, researchers, and students, to work on a
pre-specified list of challenges for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, each team being attached to a specific project.
If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one of these
projects, please fill out the online registration form. You will be asked to upload a short CV in electronic format (doc, docx or pdf) along with a list of skills you can offer to the selected
project teams. You can choose up to three projects. The project leaders will select their team members among the applicants.
The workshop attendance is
free of charge but participants must fund their own travel, accommodation, and living expenses. The estimated costs are as follows :
What are eNTERFACE workshops?
The
eNTERFACE
workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of leading professionals in multimodal
human-machine interfaces together with students (both graduate and undergraduate), to work on a prespecified list of challenges, for 4 complete weeks. In this respect, it is an innovative and intensive collaboration scheme, designed to allow researchers to
integrate their software tools, deploy demonstrators, collect novel databases, and work side by side with a great number of experts. It brings together 80 researchers for a whole month, subsequently it is the
largest summer workshop on multimodal interfaces.
The workshop is held on an annual basis and organized around several research projects dealing with multimodal human-machine interfaces design. It is
thus radically different from traditional scientific workshops, in which only specialists meet for a few days to discuss state-of-the art problems, but do not really work together.
The eNTERFACE was initiated by the FP6 Network of Excellence SIMILAR. After the completion of SIMILAR, the workshop continued to attract wide interest
under the aegis of the OpenInterface Foundation. It was organized by Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in
2005, University
of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2006, Bogaziçi University (Turkey) in 2007, CNRS-LIMSI (France) in
2008, University of
Genova (Italy) in 2009, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2010,
University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 2011,
Metz Supélec (France) in 2012,
New University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013,
and University of Basque Country (Spain) in 2014.
How does it work?
Organizers
eNTERFACE’15 is organized by the
University of Mons (UMONS),
and it will take place at the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs)
of Mons, Belgium. The team undertaking eNTERFACE 2015 is part of the NUMEDIART
Institute for Creative Technology, with internationally recognised appraisal in the field of sound, image, video, gestures and biosignals processing for applications where human-computer interaction aims to prompt emotion.
The city of Mons, cultural capital of Wallonia, has been chosen as
European Capital of Culture 2015.
For the eNTERFACE 2015 organizing committee, Prof. T. Dutoit Main Chair
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