Call for papers - Perceptual Quality of Sytems - PQS 2010 (Ercan Altinsoy )

Subject: Call for papers - Perceptual Quality of Sytems - PQS 2010 From: Ercan Altinsoy <Ercan.Altinsoy@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:33:16 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01CABE13.E46DAF10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On behalf of the organizing committee of the Third International = Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS), we would like to invite you to = attend this exciting event that will happen in Dresden, September 6-8, 2010 (http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/). =20 Third International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems is a = direct successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in Herne in = 2003, and in Berlin in 2006. =20 The quality of systems which address human perception is difficult to describe. An engineering approach to quality includes the consideration = of how a system is perceived by its users, and how the needs and = expectations of the users develop. Thus, quality assessment and prediction have to = take the relevant human perception and judgement factors into account.=20 =20 The workshop is intended to provide an interdisciplinary exchange of = ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. Papers are invited which refer = to methodological aspects of quality and usability assessment and = evaluation, the underlying perception and judgment processes, as well as to = particular technologies, systems or services.=20 =20 Contributions are welcomed in (but not limited to) the following areas (please note that in all of these areas both theoretical and empirical approaches are encouraged):=20 =20 Methodologies and Methods of Quality Assessment and Evaluation =20 Metrology: Test Design and Scaling =20 Quality of Speech and Music =20 Quality of Multimodal Perception =20 Perceptual Quality vs. Usability =20 Semio-Acoustics and -Perception =20 Quality and Usability of =20 * Speech Technology Devices=20 * Telecommunication Systems and Services=20 * Multi-Modal User Interfaces=20 * Virtual Reality=20 =20 Product-Sound Quality =20 The workshop will take place in the =93Bischof Bennohaus=94, a = villa-like conference center located in Bautzen, near Dresden, Germany. All participants will be accommodated in this center. Accomodation and meals = are included in the workshop fees. A shuttle bus service will collect participants from downtown Dresden and transport them to the workshop = venue. =20 We invite your papers, posters and demonstrations on these topics, and = look forward to seeing you in Dresden in September 2010. =20 Ute Jekosch & Ercan Altinsoy =20 Chair of Communication Acoustics, Dresden University of Technology =20 =20 =20 Sebastian M=F6ller & Alexander Raake =20 Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin University of Technology =20 =20 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE =20 Alan Sharpley, DYNASTAT Inc., USA Anja Naumann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany Armin Kohlrausch, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Bernhard Feiten, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Durand Begault, NASA, USA Hans W. Gierlich, HEAD acoustics GmbH, Germany Georg Essl, University of Michigan, USA Jens Blauert, IKA, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany John Beerends, TNO Telecom, The Netherlands Jonas Braasch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA Kate Stevens, MARCS Auditory Laboratories University of Western Sydney, Australia Margret Pinson, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, Boulder, = Colorado, USA=20 Norbert Reithinger, DFKI Projektb=FCro Berlin, Germany Patrick Le Callet, Polytech Nantes/Universit=E9 de Nantes, France Phil Corriveau, EMPG/RAD, Intel, USA=20 Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria Peter Svensson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ram=F3n L=F3pez-C=F3zar Delgado, Universidad de Granada, Spain Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique F=E9d=E9rale de Lausanne, = Switzerland Ulrich Heute, LNS, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany =20 Important Dates =20 April 16, 2010 : Abstract submission (approx. 800 words) =20 May 16, 2010 : Notification of acceptance =20 June 16, 2010 : Submission of the camera-ready-paper (max. 6 pages) =20 September 6-8, 2010 : Workshop =20 http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/ =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01CABE13.E46DAF10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"place"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name=3D"City"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=3DDE link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple> <div class=3DSection1> On behalf of = the organizing committee of the Third International Workshop on Perceptual = Quality of Systems (PQS), we would like to invite you to attend this exciting = event that will happen in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Dresden</st1:City></st1:place>, September 6-8, 2010 = (http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/akustik/PQS2010/).<o:p></o:p></fo= nt> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Third = International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems is a direct successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in <st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Herne</st1:City> in 2003, and in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:State = w:st=3D"on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place> in 2006.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> The quality = of systems which address human perception is difficult to describe. An engineering = approach to quality includes the consideration of how a system is perceived by its = users, and how the needs and expectations of the users develop. Thus, quality assessment and prediction have to take the relevant human perception and judgement factors into account. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> The workshop = is intended to provide an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between both academic = and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual = quality of systems. Papers are invited which refer to methodological aspects of = quality and usability assessment and evaluation, the underlying perception and = judgment processes, as well as to particular technologies, systems or services. = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Contributions = are welcomed in (but not limited to) the following areas (please note that in all of = these areas both theoretical and empirical approaches are encouraged): = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Methodologies = and Methods of Quality Assessment and = Evaluation<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Metrology: = Test Design and Scaling<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Quality of = Speech and Music<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Quality of = Multimodal Perception<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Perceptual = Quality vs. Usability<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Semio-Acoustics and -Perception<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Quality and = Usability of  <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>=B7          <![endif]>Speech = Technology Devices <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>=B7          <![endif]>Telecommunication Systems and Services <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>=B7          <![endif]>Multi-Modal = User Interfaces <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>=B7          <![endif]>Virtual = Reality <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Product-Sound = Quality<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> The workshop = will take place in the “Bischof Bennohaus”, a villa-like conference = center located in <st1:City w:st=3D"on">Bautzen</st1:City>, near <st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Dresden</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>. All participants will be accommodated in this center. Accomodation and = meals are included in the workshop fees. A shuttle bus service will collect participants from downtown <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Dresden</st1:City></st1:place> and transport them to the workshop venue. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> We invite = your papers, posters and demonstrations on these topics, and look forward to seeing = you in <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Dresden</st1:City></st1:place> in = September 2010.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Ute Jekosch = & Ercan Altinsoy<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Chair of = Communication Acoustics, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName = w:st=3D"on">Dresden</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of = Technology<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont>  <o:p></o:p></f= ont> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Sebastian = M=F6ller & Alexander Raake<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Deutsche = Telekom Laboratories, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName = w:st=3D"on">Berlin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of = Technology<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont>  <o:p></o:p></f= ont> INTERNATIONAL = SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Alan = Sharpley, DYNASTAT Inc., <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p>= Anja Naumann, Deutsche = Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p> Armin Kohlrausch, Philips = Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p> Bernhard Feiten, Deutsche = Telekom Laboratories, Germany<o:p></o:p> Christophe = d'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Orsay</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></fo= nt> Durand = Begault, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">NASA</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p>= Hans W. = Gierlich, HEAD acoustics <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">GmbH</st1:City>, = <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></f= ont> Georg Essl, = <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">University of Michigan</st1:City>, = <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p>= Jens Blauert, IKA, = Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany<o:p></o:p> John = Beerends, TNO Telecom, The <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span= > Jonas = Braasch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Troy</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p>= Kate Stevens, = MARCS Auditory <st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Laboratories</st1:PlaceName> = <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType> of Western <st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Sydney</st1:City>, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p><= /font> Margret = Pinson, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, <st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Boulder</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st=3D"on">Colorado</st1:State>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p> Norbert Reithinger, DFKI = Projektb=FCro Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p> Patrick Le = Callet, Polytech Nantes/Universit=E9 de Nantes, = France<o:p></o:p> Phil = Corriveau, EMPG/RAD, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Intel</st1:City>, = <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> = <o:p></o:p> Peter Reichl, = <st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Telecommunications</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName = w:st=3D"on">Research</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType> <st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Vienna</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></f= ont> Peter = Svensson, Norwegian <st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University</st1:PlaceType> of = <st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Science</st1:PlaceName> and <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City = w:st=3D"on">Technology</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Norway</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></fo= nt> Ram=F3n = L=F3pez-C=F3zar Delgado, <st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">Universidad de = Granada</st1:City>, <st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></fon= t> Touradj = Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique F=E9d=E9rale de Lausanne, <st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Switzerland</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span= > Ulrich Heute, = LNS, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, <st1:place = w:st=3D"on"><st1:country-region = w:st=3D"on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></f= ont> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> Important = Dates<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> April 16, 2010           &nb= sp; : Abstract submission (approx. 800 words)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> May 16, 2010           &nb= sp; : Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> June 16, 2010            =  : Submission of the camera-ready-paper (max. 6 = pages)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> September = 6-8, 2010  : Workshop<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p></f= ont> http://www.ias.et.tu-dresde= n.de/akustik/PQS2010/<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01CABE13.E46DAF10--

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