[Mycolleagues] CFP: 4th Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN 2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th COGAIN Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction

COGAIN2008:

Communication, Environment and Mobility Control by Gaze

Prague

Czech Republic

2nd – 3rd September 2008

The 4th international COGAIN conference on eye gaze interaction has communication,

environmental control and mobility control as its main themes. These three aspects together

constitute the means to give people with severe motor disabilities independence in their daily

lives. Eye gaze is often the most effective means of interacting with devices associated with

these. Much progress has been made in developing eye tracking systems with a high degree

of usability, and in developing systems for text entry using gaze. There are now new

approaches to text entry and communication which offer higher input rates than have been

previously possible. It is also important to consider enabling communication with mobile

devices as well as conventional screen based applications, and to consider also how low cost,

less accurate gaze systems can best be utilised. There are now research questions too about

how to best to extend the use of gaze and enable users to interact with the local environment

and to control mobility devices such as scooters and wheelchairs. A Danish person with

motor neuron disease and an experienced user of gaze communication devices said recently

"One of the future challenges should be to make a computer so that you can drive the

wheelchair (safely!) using only an eye tracker". Gaze control has the potential to make really

significant improvements to the quality of life of people with severe motor impairments. The

COGAIN conferences are the major international events which focus particularly on gaze

communication for people with disabilities.

Now in its 4th year, COGAIN (COmmunication by GAze INteraction) is a European Union

funded research Network of Excellence, which comprises 25 universities, manufacturers and

end-user organizations from across the European Union together with partners from across

the globe. More information about the COGAIN network can be found at www.cogain.org.

The proceedings of COGAIN2005 (Copenhagen), COGAIN2006 (Turin) and COGAIN2007

(Leicester) are available from the site.

Call for Papers

The conference committee invites the submission of short papers particularly in the following

areas, although submissions in any area related to gaze-based interaction will be considered.

• Gaze and environmental control

• Gaze and personal mobility control

• Direct interaction with gaze aware real world objects

• User experience studies

• Innovations in eye tracking systems

• Low cost gaze tracking systems

• Attentive interfaces and inferring user intent from gaze

• Text entry by means of gaze

• Gaze-based interaction with virtual worlds

• Gaze and creativity

• Gaming using gaze as an input modality

• Using gaze with other modalities including BCI

Papers which deal with the use of eye gaze to study the usability of mainstream applications

and websites are not normally considered for inclusion in the conference.

Format of the conference and proceedings

The public conference will be a two-day event as last year, the first day having themed paper

sessions, and the second having user and industry presentations as well as the exhibition of

systems. The paper sessions will present short papers and authors of some of these will be

invited to produce full papers for a special edition of a journal. Full submission details can be

found on the COGAIN website (http://www.cogain.org/cogain2008)

Important Dates:

Submission deadline for short papers : 31/05/08

Notification of acceptance: 15/07/08

COGAIN2008 Conference/Exhibition: 2-3/09/08

Please send submissions to Howell Istance, Program Chair COGAIN2008, School of

Computing, De Montfort University, Leicester UK,

email: hoi@dmu.ac.uk