Call for Papers: 2021 COGAIN Symposium
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THE 2021 COGAIN SYMPOSIUM
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Website: https://cogain2021.cogain.org
Where: Stuttgart, Germany (virtually)
When: May 25-27, 2021, as part of ETRA 2021 (https://etra.acm.org/2021/)

Important dates (Anywhere on Earth):
Short Papers due: Feb 20, 2021
Position Papers due: March 8th, 2021
Notifications: Mar 15, 2021
Camera-ready: Mar 30, 2021

# CALL FOR PAPERS

The Symposium on Communication by Gaze Interaction organized by the COGAIN Association (http://cogain.org/) will be co-located with ETRA 2021 (https://etra.acm.org/2021/), the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. ETRA 2021 will take place (virtually) in Stuttgart, Germany, from May 25th to the 27th.

Founded in 2008 as a continuation of the COGAIN Project (a network of excellence supported by the European Commission’s IST 6th framework program from 2004 to 2009), the COGAIN Association aims to promote research and development in the field of gaze-based interaction in computer-aided communication and control.

The COGAIN Symposium will be co-located with ETRA 2021. By combining our efforts with ETRA, we hope to encourage a broader exchange of knowledge and experiences amongst eye tracking communities of researchers, developers, manufacturers, and users.

# SPECIAL SESSION: FUTURE OF GAZE-BASED ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

This year a special session is dedicated to the opportunities and challenges of gaze-based assistive technologies of the future. The advent of mobile computing devices and technologies such as VR and AR has increased the availability of eye tracking in many environments beyond the desktop. Research in this area has already demonstrated gaze-based interactions in smart home environments, mobile robotics, and e.g. wheelchairs or prostheses control. Thus, gaze-based assistive technologies have the potential to help people interact with various types of machines in everyday situations. We want to bring together people working towards this vision and foster this community. For the COGAIN Symposium 2021 we are particularly interested in position papers addressing these opportunities and challenges.

# GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST

The COGAIN workshop focuses on all those aspects of gaze interaction which have a connection with eye-controlled assistive technology. Thanks to its strong identity, the symposium will be the right venue to present advances in these areas, leading to new capabilities in gaze interaction, gaze enhanced applications, gaze contingent devices, etc. Unless the main focus is on assistive technology, the authors must clearly state how the paper advances or is linked to eye-controlled assistive technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Eye-typing
  • Gaze-contingent devices
  • Gaze-enhanced games
  • Gaze-controlled robots and vehicles
  • Gaze interaction with mobile devices
  • Gaze-controlled smart-home devices
  • Gaze interfaces for wearable computing
  • Gaze interaction in 3D (VR/AR/MR & real world)
  • Gaze interaction paradigms
  • Usability and UX evaluation of gaze-based interfaces
  • User context estimation from eye movements
  • Gaze-supported multimodal interaction (gaze with multitouch, mouse, gesture, etc.)

# SUBMISSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

One half of the COGAIN Symposium is dedicated to presentations and a discussion about the future of gaze-based assistive technologies, aimed at community building. Late-breaking research results are put forward in the second half of the symposium. As ETRA 2021 is a virtual event, presentations are expected to take place as pre-recorded videos to ensure high-level delivery and allow for asynchronous participation.

We invite authors to prepare and submit papers following ETRA’s ACM format (http://etra.acm.org/2021/submissionprocess.html). For COGAIN, we are accepting Short Papers until February 20th and Position Papers until March 8th.

Short Papers can be up to 8 pages (single-column format, not counting references), and Position Papers up to 4 pages (single-column format, not counting references), can be submitted through PCS: https://new.precisionconference.com/etra (select the COGAIN track from the drop down list).

The Short Paper submissions are reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted Short papers will be published in ETRA’s short paper proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. We expect at least one author per submission to register for the conference.

# ORGANIZATION

General co-chairs:
– Carolin Hainke (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany)
– Thies Pfeiffer (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany)
– Sarah Yeo

Program co-chairs:
– Ken Pfeuffer (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
– Augusto Esteves (ITI/LARSyS, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

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Please visit http://cogain2021.cogain.org/
for more information or contact us by
email to cogain2021@cogain.org

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Call for Proposals: ETRA 2021 Workshops
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ACM ETRA 2021 – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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In conjunction with ETRA 2021 (virtual event)
Workshops: 25 May 2021 (tentative)
ETRA: 25-29 May 2021 (tentative)
https://etra.acm.org/2021/

CALL

We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ETRA 2021. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges evolving around eye tracking research. It is the perfect opportunity for putting the best minds in the field together to build new communities, to explore new ideas, and to develop emerging topics.
We invite submissions of proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshops. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES

16 December 2020: Proposals due
22 December 2020: Notifications sent
15 January 2021: Workshop page is online and linked

FORMATS

We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas. They will support you in preparing an exciting proposal. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to:
“Mini-conferences” on specialized topics: such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes.
“Practical” and “Panel-based” workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement.
“Project centric” workshops that may be closely related to the scope of an existing large scale (e.g. NSF, EU, etc. funded) project.
“Mini-competitions”, like challenges or hackathons, around selected topics with individual or team participation.
Note that in particular organizers of mini-conference workshops are encouraged to think about alternative formats, in case they receive less submissions than expected (e.g., due to the current CoVID-19 situation). Examples include but are not limited to complementing paper presentations with a panel discussion, breakout groups, etc.
The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the ETRA conference community. Workshop and tutorial organizers will maintain their own website with information about the workshop and the ETRA 2021 web site will refer to this website. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process.

PUBLICATION OF WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

This year, ETRA will allow workshop contributions to be published in two different formats:
Short Paper Proceedings: Papers with up to 4 pages + any number of pages for references, going through one full review cycle
Adjunct Proceedings: Papers with up to 2 pages, going through a less competitive review cycle or juried process.
Workshop organizers may choose between both formats and should clearly indicate their preference in their proposal.

PROPOSAL FORMAT

Workshop proposals should be maximum 4 pages long and follow the formatting instructions and template at https://www.siggraph.org/learn/instructions-authors/
Please include the following information in the proposal:
Name and title:
A one-word acronym and a full title.
Description of workshop or tutorial topic:
This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to ETRA and its interest for the ETRA 2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest.
Previous history (if applicable):
List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants.
Organizer(s):
Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. Also please provide a list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past.
Workshop program committee (optional):
Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions.
Participants:
A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of people who have expressed interest to participate in the workshop or tutorial.
Workshop format:
A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc.
Planned outcomes of the workshop:
What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the workshop? Please list here any planned publications or other outputs arising workshops.
Backup plan in cases of low number of submissions:
The ongoing pandemic situation is expected to have a significant impact on paper submissions, as it has become extremely difficult to conduct proper experiments. Please describe how you have considered this in your program or how you would react to a low number of submissions (e.g. by shortening the workshop, switching to different formats, etc.).
Length:
Full-day or half-day.

SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop proposals should be submitted by the deadline via email to the workshop organizers:
workshop.etra2021@gmail.com

TENTATIVE TIMELINE FOR WORKSHOP REVIEW CYCLES

Workshop Papers going into the Short Paper Proceedings need to undergo a full review process. The approximate timeline for this is as follows:
February, 20th, 2021 Workshop papers due
March, 15th, 2021 Notifications
March, 30th, 2021 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)
Workshop Paper going into the Adjunct Proceedings require a less rigorous / can be juried. The approximate timeline for this is as follows.
March, 8th, 2021 Workshop papers due
March, 15th, 2021 Notifications
March, 30th, 2021 Camera-ready deadline (hard deadline)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Florian Alt, Bundeswehr University Munich
Thies Pfeiffer, Hochschule Emden/Leer
workshop.etra2021@gmail.com

Call for Papers: 1st Workshop on Eye Tracking Techniques, Applications and Challenges (ETTAC 2020)
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Milan, Italy, January 10, 2021

https://vision.unipv.it/ettac2020/

in conjunction with ICPR 2020, the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/).


AIMS AND SCOPE

Eye tracking technology is becoming more and more widespread nowadays, also thanks to the recent availability of cheap commercial devices. At the same time, novel techniques are constantly pursued to improve the precision of gaze detection, and new ways to fully exploit the potential of eye data are continuously explored. Whatever the considered use context, be it Human-Computer Interaction, user behavior understanding, biometrics, or others, pattern recognition often plays a relevant role.

The purpose of the workshop is to present recent eye tracking research that, directly or indirectly, exploits any form of pattern recognition.The event’s scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

  • Gaze detection techniques and devices
  • Gaze-based human-computer interaction (assistive technologies, hybrid interfaces, etc.)
  • Eye tracking for usability inspection
  • Eye tracking in VR/AR applications
  • User behavior understanding from eye data
  • Eye movement analysis for biometrics, security and privacy
  • Eye tracking in medicine and health care
  • Visualization of gaze data

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the Springer’s Computer Science Proceedings guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Two types of contributions are possible:

  • Full papers (12-15 pages, including references)
  • Short papers (6-8 pages, including references)

Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. The submission platform will be available soon.


IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: October 10, 2020
  • Notification to authors: November 10, 2020
  • Camera-ready article: November 15, 2020
  • Finalized workshop program: December 1, 2020
  • Workshop day: January 10, 2021


ORGANIZERS

Marco Porta (University of Pavia, Italy)
Paweł Kasprowski (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
Luca Lombardi (University of Pavia, Italy)
Piercarlo Dondi (University of Pavia, Italy)


CONTACT INFORMATION

For any inquiry regarding the workshop please contact Marco Porta at marco.porta@unipv.it

Call for Papers: ACM ETRA 2021
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The 2021 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 25 to 29, 2021. The aim of ETRA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. Join us in Stuttgart for ETRA, attend co-located workshops, and participate in exciting discussions.

The symposium presents advances and innovations in oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis. We invite full and short papers in all areas of eye tracking research and applications, and welcome submissions from all domains, including visuomotor neuroscience, perception, and cognition.

Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication elsewhere. All papers will be published and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author must register and present accepted work at the conference.

http://etra.acm.org/2021/cfp.html

ACM ETRA 2021 is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH).


Important Dates:

Full paper
Abstract submission: Nov 25, 2020
Paper submission: Dec 2, 2020
First round reviews and notifications: Feb 9, 2021
Revisions due: Mar 1, 2021
Second round reviews and notifications: Mar 18, 2021
Camera ready deadline: Mar 30, 2021

Short paper
Paper submission: Jan 27, 2021
Reviews and notifications: Mar 15, 2021
Camera ready deadline: Mar 30, 2021

Conference date: May 25-29, 2021

Topic Areas:

The ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) solicits original full and short research papers on a diverse set of topics related to eye tracking. Research contributions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not limited to:

●      Data analysis
○      Novel methods such as deep learning and other machine learning-based methods
○      Pattern recognition for scanpaths
○      Clustering of gaze data
○      Event detection
○      Large-scale data processing

●      Prediction methods
○      Gaze prediction
○      Action, intent, or attribute prediction

●      Visualization
○      Visual representation of gaze patterns and other eye tracking data
○      Visual analytics and combination with machine learning

●      Eye tracking devices
○      Head-mounted eye tracking
○      Remote eye tracking
○      Novel sensors

●      Perception and cognition; empirical studies
○      Perception, attention and oculomotor control
○      Visual search and scene perception
○      Eye movements in reading and communication
○      Eye-hand coordination
○      Eye tracking in naturalistic tasks
○      In-the-wild studies

●      Gaze-based interaction
○      Novel interaction methods
○      Virtual and augmented reality
○      Multi-modal interaction

●      Security and privacy

●      Applications
○      Education
○      Driving
○      Medical/health
○      Virtual and augmented reality
○      Graphics and virtual avatars



***  Full papers are up to 8 pages plus any number of additional pages for references. Authors are also invited to submit papers in a shorter format (2 to 4 pages plus any number of pages for references). All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library.


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For more details visit: http://etra.acm.org/2021/

CfP: 7th Polish Eye Tracking Conference
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Dear Friends and Colleagues!

We’re happy to announce that the 7th Polish Eye Tracking Conference, organized by Institute of Psychology at NCU in collaboration with the Leiden University and LELO, will take place on September 25-27, 2020, at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. We really count on you, in terms of high quality submissions, your contribution to the open discussion. We will be extremely grateful for passing this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in participation.

The aim of PKE7 is to bring eye tracking researchers together to present new ideas and state-of-the-art methods of research. The event will be accompanied by workshops aimed to broaden participants experience by hands-on work on real research problems.

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and the abstract book will be published by Journal of Eye Movement Research <https://bop.unibe.ch/jemr>
We encourage you to visit the conference website <http://www.pke.umk.pl/> or read the full invitation below.

Keynotes
· Roy S. Hessels (postdoctoral researcher at Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute and Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands): In my research, I use eye-tracking to understand the role eye movements play in social interaction. For this, I use wearable eye trackers, and state-of-the-art dual eye-tracking setups. In addition, I have an interest in eye-tracking methodology, as I believe there is much to be gained to improve eye-tracking measurements in psychological research. If you want to know more, you are more than welcome to send me an email at mail@royhessels.nl <mailto:mail@royhessels.nl>
· Fred Mast (Head of Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Research Methods; Dean Human Sciences Faculty; Ordinarius): I am full professor at the University of Bern where I am directing the newly founded section "Cognitive Psychology, Perception, and Research Methods". My research is concerned with mental imagery, sensorimotor processing, and visual perception, and it is regularly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (see more information <https://www.kog.psy.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/prof_dr_mast_fred/>).
· Maciej Szkulmowski (Associate Professor of the Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Nicolaus Copernicus University.). Polish physicist; specializes in optics, experimental physics, biophysics and medical physics. In his research, he deals with: ultrafast modulation of light beam aberrations to improve the parameters of imaging systems, interferometric imaging of the entire eyeball with the use of active optical elements, and the development of functional OCT tomography methods for imaging cells and tissues (see more <http://lab.fizyka.umk.pl/>).
· Jaana Simola completed her PhD in psychology in 2011 at the University of Helsinki. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Neuroscience Center at University of Helsinki and as a visiting postdoc at University of Paris VIII, France. Her research concerns brain dynamics during active vision, i.e., how we sample our environment with eye movements and how we process emotional stimuli and task-irrelevant information. She also has a strong interest in fluctuations in spontaneous brain dynamics as well as pupil size and blinking. Jaana uses a wide range of methods including EEG, MEG, fMRI, eye tracking and psychophysics. Currently, she is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS).

 
CALL FOR PAPERS

Invitation
We invite researchers from the fields of psychology, language sciences, cognitive sciences and computer sciences to present reflection on their research, which would shed light on the abovementioned problems. Topics may include but should not be limited to:
· research on cognitive processes,
· research on language development and education,
· applied linguistics,
· mixed methods integrating qualitative and quantitative data,
· eye tracking research methodology


Submissions
We invite the following types of submissions:
1.     regular talks,
2.     posters.
 
See details: https://pke.umk.pl/pages/Regu/ <https://pke.umk.pl/pages/Regu/>
 
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and the abstract book published by Journal of Eye Movement Research <https://bop.unibe.ch/jemr>


Travel Awards
Depending on available funding, we might have a limited number of travel awards for students and PhD candidates without funding, who proposed talks or posters of outstanding quality. More information on that should be posted on the conference website in April/May.

Important dates:
Deadline for submitting sessions to the conference: March 25, 2020
Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 25, 2020
ABSTRACT ASSESSMENT: up to May 25, 2020
Closing of the online registration: August 25, 2020
In case of questions, please contact us: pke@umk.pl <mailto:pke@umk.pl>
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On behalf of 
the Local Organizing Committee:
dr Bibianna Bałaj
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and the Scientific Committee:
prof. Kenneth Holmqvist
prof. Maria Lewicka
prof. Sambor Grucza
dr Mariska Kret
dr hab. Monika Płużyczka
dr hab. Agnieszka Andrychowicz-Trojanowska

CfP: 1st Workshop on Eye Tracking Techniques, Applications and Challenges at ICPR2020
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More details: https://vision.unipv.it/ettac2020/

The 1st Workshop on Eye Tracking Techniques, Applications and Challenges (ETTAC 2020) will be held in conjunction with ICPR 2020 (25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition – Milan, Italy, September 13-18, 2020).

Eye tracking technology is becoming more and more widespread nowadays, also thanks to the recent availability of cheap commercial devices. At the same time, novel techniques are constantly pursued to improve the precision of gaze detection, and new ways to fully exploit the potential of eye data are continuously explored. Whatever the considered use context, be it Human-Computer Interaction, user behavior understanding, biometrics, or others, pattern recognition often plays a relevant role.

The purpose of the ETTAC workshop is to present recent eye tracking research that directly or indirectly exploits any form of pattern recognition. The event’s scope includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

  • Gaze detection techniques and devices
  • Gaze-based human-computer interaction (assistive technologies, hybrid interfaces, etc.)
  • Eye tracking for usability inspection
  • Eye tracking in VR/AR applications
  • User behavior understanding from eye data
  • Eye movement analysis for biometrics, security and privacy
  • Eye tracking in medicine and health care
  • Visualization of gaze data

More details: https://vision.unipv.it/ettac2020/

CfP: Special Session on Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis at KES-2020
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Dear Colleagues,

we would like to cordially invite you to submit your work to:

IV Special Session on Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis

organized during
24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems KES-2020 (Core-B conference)

Verona, Italy, 16-18 September 2020

The series of EMDPA sessions aim to summarize the current state of the art in the eye movement data analysis and enable prospective researchers to present their new ideas concerning the eye movement analyses. The conference proceedings will be published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science open access journal, available in ScienceDirect, and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science), Engineering Index, and Scopus.

The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:

Collecting eye movement data
Accuracy and precision of data
Calibration of eye movement data signal
Events detection (fixations and saccades)
Gaze-based user interfaces
Eye movement modelling
Data mining of eye movement signal
Eye movement based identification
Improving man machine interactions for people with disabilities
Eye movement applications in testing interface usability
Eye movement in security systems
Eye movement in solving problems
Usage of eye movement signal in cognitive processes
Methods improving quality of eye movement signal
Recognition of people’s intentions basing on their eye movement
Miscellaneous eye tracking applications

Programme Committee:

Pawel Kasprowski, Silesian Univesity of Technology, Poland (chair)
Katarzyna Harezlak, Silesian Univesity of Technology, Poland (co-chair)
Michael Burch, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (co-chair)
Thies Pfeiffer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Krzysztof Krejtz, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
Radosław Mantiuk, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland
Carlos Morimoto, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Ayush Kumar, Stony Brook University, USA
Kuno Kurzalis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Mikhail Startsev, Technische Universität München, Germany
Arantxa Villanueva, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Thiago Santini, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Diako Mardanbegi, AdHawk Microsystems, Canada
Dan Witzner Hansen, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Raimondas Zemblys, Siauliai University, Lithuania

Important Dates:

Submission of papers: 3 April 2020
Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2020
Final versions: 20 May 2020
Conference: 16-18 September 2020

Additional information for authors: http://www.kasprowski.pl/emdpa

Hope to see you in Verona!

CfP: ETVIS 2020
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*            Fifth Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS 2020)                            *
*            June 2-5, 2020, Stuttgart, Germany                                                                             *
*            in conjunction with ACM ETRA 2020                                                                           *
*            https://etra.acm.org/2020                                                                                            *
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*            Contact: etvis2020@gmail.com                                                                                   *
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IMPORTANT DATES
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● Submission Due:                                Feb 10, 2020
● Notification:                                  Mar 19, 2020
● Camera Ready:                                  Apr 2,  2020

All accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the Short Paper Proceedings of ETRA 2020.

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SCOPE
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Technological advances in computer vision algorithms and sensor hardware have greatly reduced the implementational and financial costs of eye tracking. 
Thus, it is unsurprising to witness a significant increase in its use as a research tool in fields beyond the traditional domains of biological vision, psychology, and neuroscience, in particular, in visualization and human-computer interaction research. One of the key challenges lies in the analysis, interaction, and visualization of complex spatio-temporal datasets of gaze behavior, which is further complicated by complementary datasets such as semantic labels, user interactions and/or accompanying physiological sensor recordings. Ultimately, the research objective is to allow eye tracking data to be effectively interpreted in terms of the observer’s decision-making and cognitive processes. To achieve this, it is necessary to draw upon our current understanding of gaze-behavior across various and related fields, from vision and cognition to visualization. All together eye tracking is an important field to be understood, be it in the sense of data analysis and visualization, interaction, or user-based evaluation of visualization.

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TOPICS
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Manuscripts are solicited on the following topics with an emphasis on the relationship between eye tracking and visualization, including but not limited to the following:

- Visualization techniques for eye-movement data (inc. spatio-temporal visualization, evolution of gaze patterns, visual analysis of individual behavior, 2D vs. 3D representations of eye-movement data)
 -  Visual analytics of gaze behavior (inc. visual data mining, aggregation, clustering techniques, and metrics for eye-movement data)
 -  Eye-movement data provenance
 -  Standardized metrics for evaluating gaze interactions with visualization
 -  Cognitive models for gaze interactions with visualizations
 -  Novel methods for eye tracking in challenging visualization scenarios
 -  Uncertainty visualization of gaze data
 -  Interactive annotation of gaze and stimulus data
 -  Systems for the visual exploration of eye-movement data
 -  Eye-tracking studies that evaluate visualization or visual analytics
 -  Eye tracking in non-WIMP visualization environments, including mobile eye tracking, mobile devices, and large displays
 -  Visualization of eye-tracking data in mixed and virtual reality (3df & 6df, 360°)
 -  Visualization applications that rely on eye tracking as an input parameter

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SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit original work complying with the ETRA SHORT PAPER format (up to 4 pages + references).
Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to ETVIS through the ETRA submission system:
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=etra

Also ensure that the Author Guidelines (https://www.siggraph.org//learn/instructions-authors for SIG sponsored events [sigconf]) are met prior to submission.

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ORGANIZERS
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● Kuno Kurzhals, ETH Zurich, kunok[at]ethz.ch 
● Sophie Stellmach, Microsoft Research, sostel[at]microsoft.com 
● Vsevolod Peysakhovich, ISAE-SUPAERO, vsevolod.peysakhovich[at]isae-supaero.fr

CfP: ETWEB – Eye Tracking for The Web
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ETWEB - Eye Tracking for The Web as a co-located event at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, ETRA 2020, June 2-5, 2020 in Stuttgart, Germany.
http://etra.acm.org/2020/etweb.html

Important Dates
February 15 - Paper submission
March 10 - Feedback
March 15 - Rebuttals
March 22 - Decisions
April 2 - Camera Ready

Scope

The Web offers rich information and services that have considerable impact on our daily lives. Enhancing the usability and the accessibility of Web interaction are relevant areas of research to make the Web more useful for end-users. ETWEB will cover topics that are related to Web (interface semantics extraction, interaction adaptation, etc.) and eye tracking (attention visualization, crowdsourcing, etc.). We particularly welcome submissions that address the following topics with an emphasis on the relationship between eye tracking and the Web:
Web site usability analysis techniques using eye movement data
Standardized metrics for evaluating interactions and usability
Enable usability optimization with eye tracking on highly dynamic Web content
Enhance the user experience in the Web by enabling an easy and complete understanding of a user and her behavior
Understanding eye-tracking data for re-engineering Web pages
Gaze data visualization on Web stimulus
Analyzing Web search and browsing behaviors through gaze pattern
Social media browsing behavior analysis
Correlating mouse clicks and gaze data with Web browsing behavior
Gaze-based Web usability studies via crowdsourcing approaches
Corpus of eye tracking ground truth data on Web pages
Eye tracking interaction techniques to assist people with disabilities
Multimodal interaction with Web (gaze, mouse, voice, touch, EEG, etc.)
Interactive annotation of gaze and Web stimulus data
Techniques to integrate eye gaze as an input element in Web development
Reports of eye tracking studies evaluating Web accessibility and usability
Submission

Authors are invited to submit their work complying with the ETRA short and long paper format http://etra.acm.org/2020/cfp.html. Long papers (6-8 pages) encourage more matured research with evaluation results. Short papers (2-4 pages) encourage work in progress, demo papers, and also position papers identifying the challenges of gaze-based Web interaction and analysis. References do not count to page limit. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to ETWEB over the ETRA Precision Conference System (PCS) https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=etra submission system. At least one author of each accepted ETWEB paper must register for the ETRA conference.

Organizers

Chandan Kumar, University of Koblenz, Germany
Raphael Menges, University of Koblenz, Germany
Yeliz Yeşilada, METU Northern Cyprus Campus

CfP: ET4S 2020 – Eye Tracking for Spatial Research 2020
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*First Call for Papers**
**ET4S 2020 – Eye Tracking for Spatial Research 2020*

co-located event at ETRA 2020

June 02-05, 2020, in Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.spatialeyetracking.org/
et4s@spatialeyetracking.org

Eye tracking has become a popular method for investigating research 
questions related to geographic space and spatial data. This includes 
studies on how people interact with geographic information systems, 
studies on how space is perceived in decision situations, and using gaze 
as an input modality for spatial human-computer interaction. As an event 
co-located with ETRA 2020, Eye Tracking for Spatial Research (ET4S) aims 
to bring together researchers from different fields who have a common 
interest in using eye tracking for research questions related to 
visuospatial information processing and spatial decision-making.

After four successful ET4S events in 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2019, the 5th 
edition of ET4S will be organized as a co-located event at ETRA 2020 
(https://etra.acm.org/2020/index.html), the ACM Symposium on Eye 
Tracking Research & Applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Gaze-based Interaction with Maps and Other Spatial Visualizations
  * Evaluation of Cartographic and Other Spatial Visualizations with Eye
    Tracking
  * Gaze-aware Mobile Assistance and Location-based Services
  * Navigation Studies, Wayfinding, and Eye Tracking
  * Eye Tracking in Traffic Research (e.g., Car Navigation, Public
    Transport, Aviation)
  * Visual Perception and Exploration of (Indoor and Outdoor) Space
  * Landscape Perception
  * Visuospatial Cognition Research
  * Gaze During Spatial and Spatio-temporal Decision Making
  * Spatio-temporal Analysis and Visualization of Eye Tracking Data
  * Individual and Group Differences in Visuospatial Information Processing
  * Eye Tracking in XR (VR/MR/AR) for Spatial Research
  * Eye Tracking in 3D Space
  * Multi-user Eye Tracking for Collaborative Spatial Decision Making

*Submission Guidelines *
We call for regular and work-in-progress papers. Your submissions should 
be prepared following the sigconf instructions. To prepare the content 
of the PDF file, SIGGRAPH encourages authors to use the following 
templates for LaTeX and Word, respectively: 
https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. At least one 
author of each accepted ET4S paper must register for the ETRA conference.

/*Regular papers*/ should present original and novel work demonstrating 
advances in methodological, theoretical, experimental or practical 
aspects of ET4S topics on up to 6 pages (+2 pages maximum for references 
only). Regular papers are expected to present fully analyzed data or 
accomplished work. All accepted regular papers are presented orally at 
the ET4S event.

/*Work-in-progress papers*/ are suitable for work on ET4S-related topics 
in a stage beyond planning-only, but where feedback and discussion at 
the ET4S event can make a contribution (e.g., a pilot study for a 
planned study has been performed, or a conducted but not fully analyzed 
study). Work-in-progress papers can be up to 4 pages long (+2 pages 
maximum for references only). Work-in-progress papers will be presented 
at the ET4S event either with a short oral presentation or as a poster.

All papers should be submitted through Precision Conference (PCS, 
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=etra) and are 
subject to a single review round. In PCS, please make sure you choose 
the track “ETRA 2020 Eye Tracking for Spatial Research (ET4S)“.

*Important Dates *
Submission deadline            February 21st, 2020
Reviews and notifications        March 26th, 2020
Camera-ready deadline            April 2nd, 2020

*ET4S Program Committee *

  * Gennady Andrienko (Fraunhofer IAIS/City University London, Germany/UK)
  * Roman Bednarik (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
  * Annina Brügger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Florian Daiber (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
    (DFKI), Germany)
  * Weihua Dong (Beijing Normal University, China)
  * Fabian Göbel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Amy Griffin (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
  * Krzysztof Krejtz (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
    Poland)
  * Jakub Krukar (ifgi, University of Münster, Germany)
  * Thomas Kübler (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  * Tiffany C.K. Kwok (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany)
  * Vsevolod Peysakhovich (Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique et de
    l’espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), France)
  * Ken Pfeuffer (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
  * Martin Raubal (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Anthony Robinson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  * David Rudi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Artemis Skarlatidou (University College London, UK)
  * Yanxia Zhang (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA)

*ET4S Organizers *
Peter Kiefer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Arzu Çöltekin, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern 
Switzerland, Switzerland
Rul von Stülpnagel, University of Freiburg, Germany
Andrew T. Duchowski, Clemson University, SC, USA
Ioannis Giannopoulos, TU Vienna, Austria

*Contact *
et4s@spatialeyetracking.org