ICST - UCMEDIA 2009: Call for Papers

	UCMEDIA 2009 The 1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media 9-11 December 2009, Venice, Italy
www.ucmedia.org
Keynote Speakers Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, European Commission Prof. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva *** Sponsors Sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET *** Steering Committee   Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy Petros Daras, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece *** Organizing Committee General Chair Petros Daras, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece * General Co-Chair Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA * Program Chairs    Oscar Mayora, CREATE-NET, Italy Federico Alvarez, University Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Antonio Camurri, University of Genoa, Italy Theodore Zahariadis, TEI Chalkidas, Greece * Workshops Chairs Cristina Costa, CREATE-NET, Italy Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany Peter Stollenmayer, Eurescom, Germany Doug Williams, British Telecom, United Kingdom * Advisory Committee Isidro Laso, European Commission Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London * Publicity Chair Apostolos Axenopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece * Conference Coordinator Robert Varga, ICST *** Related Conferences To find out about other conferences in the field of pervasive media >> click here *** ICST Membership Not a member of ICST yet? See >> a list of complimentary professional services you could immediately benefit from. ***   Venue The conference will be held on Hotel Novotel Venezia Mestre Castellana. More Information about the conference location can be found >>here	CALL FOR PAPERS The first International Conference on User Centric Media seeks original research-based contributions that will improve our understanding of recent and anticipated advances in user centric media for entertainment, education, information and as art and to its distribution over The Future Media Internet. Contributions may relate to technology, to business, to the creative process and to user-based studies. Research based on cross disciplinary approaches is particularly welcome. Topics UCMEDIA welcomes contributions from academics, technologists, artists, designers, industry representatives and anlaysts. Contributions are invited that may relate to: User Centric Media - Forms and Production User centric media services in the extended home New forms of interactive storytelling Framed communication experiences Enhanced content representations (3DTV, Ultra HD TV, holograms, etc). Implementation and experimentation of future Internet applications e.g. virtual 3D worlds, collaborative platforms and holograms User generated content creation, management and consumption systems Novel Networked Media Systems to support human creativity at the cross roads of ICT and arts/design research User Centric Media – Delivery (over The Future Media Internet) Content distribution and distributed caching for multimedia content streaming Peer-to-peer streaming prototypes and their implementation in the Future Media Internet Innovative, adaptive and self-configuring mobile and wireless applications Adaptive, polymorphic and reconfigurable systems for Future Media Internet environments Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end QoS issues for heterogeneous networks Encoding technologies for maintaining the integrity and optimise the quality of experience. Content aware networks and network aware content/applications Open Future Internet network architectures for seamless, scalable multimedia content delivery User Centric Media - Access, Discovery and Consumption User Communities Systems and Platforms Content adaptability Search and retrieval of networked multimedia content Personalized Access to Media Systems Trust, privacy, security and protection Call for Workshops Workshop proposals submission deadline is on May 3, 2009. For further information >>click here   Publication Official conference proceedings of ICST sponsored events appear in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series jointly published by ICST and Springer. Inclusion in LNICST offers >>the following benefits to authors. Submission For submission instructions >>click here. Important Dates: Paper submission due: 26 June 2009 Acceptance notification: 10 September 2009

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