[Tccc] SKILLS 09 conference: DEADLINE EXTENDED: 31st May

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* Call for PAPERS & HANDS-ON DEMOS *
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* SKILLS 09: ENACTION on SKILLS *
* http://www.ceit.es/skills2009 *
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* December 15- 16 2009, Bilbao, Spain *
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SCOPE:
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SKILLS09 is a major international conference and an important opportunity
for researchers in the field of Multimodal Interfaces for human Skills
transfer.

Training of human skills is state-of-the-art research on
Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) and Psychology. There are many manual skills
and activities where human learners find the symbolic and iconic
information difficult to remap into movement patterns. Something that is
represented in an objective space must be translated in the subjective
space of the body, where many actions are automatic and not consciously
controlled. Enactive representations of the task seek to bridge this gap.

Enactive knowledge is not simply multisensory mediated knowledge, but
knowledge stored in the form of motor responses and acquired by the act of
"doing". A typical example of enactive knowledge is constituted by the
competence required for tasks such as driving a car, playing a musical
instrument, modelling objects from clay, performing sports, etc., which
would be difficult to describe in an iconic or symbolic form. This type of
knowledge transmission can be considered the most direct, in natural and
intuitive terms, since it is based on the experience and on the perceptual
responses to motor acts.

This conference will present and discuss recent developments in the
application of the concept of Enaction for the transfer of manual human
skills. Papers are welcome in all topics related to skills
conceptualization and transfer processes, from skill capturing to skill
rendering and assessment.

TOPICS:
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The program committee invites researchers, innovators and theorists to
submit papers and posters on all topics related to human skills analysis,
Enactive Interfaces, Interaction and Systems, including, but not limited
to, the following areas:

Theoretical Aspects
–Training/learning techniques both at cognitive and sensorimotor level
–Skill Acquisition: models and evaluation
–Methodology of skill analysis and capturing
–Neuroscience and experimental psychology

Technologies for skills transfer
–Skills capturing systems
–Skills rendering systems
–Multimodal and Enactive Interfaces
–Human Computer Interaction
–Cross-modal interactions

Application and Uses
–Sports
–Entertainment and Games
–Medicine and Rehabilitation
–Art
–Industrial applications

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Call for papers and hands-on demos| Feb. 20th, 2009
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Paper Registration and abstract| May 18th, 2009
submission|
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Paper submission| May 31th, 2009
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Acceptance notification for papers| July 15th, 2009
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Deadline for demo proposals|August 31th, 2009
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Camera ready| Sep. 30th, 2009
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Hands-on demo installation| Dec. 14th 2009
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Conference| Dec 15th-16th,
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SUBMISSION:
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Paper submission will be handled electronically. Papers must not exceed 6
pages double column including figures and references, using a 10 point or
larger font. More details on the conference web page.

PUBLICATION:
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Besides the publication of papers and posters in the Proceedings of the
conference with an ISBN number, a selection of revised papers will be
published in a special issue of the International Journal on Interactive
Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM)

CHAIRS:
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Emilio Sánchez (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de
Gipuzkoa, Spain)
Teresa Gutiérrez (LABEIN, Spain)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
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Fundamental research and Theories:
- Benoît Bardy (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
- Daniel Gopher (TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Technology:
- Uli Bockholt (FhG-IDG, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics,
Germany)
- Florian Gosselin (CEA-LIST, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique-
Laboratoire d' Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies, France)
- Carsten Preusche (DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechantronics)

Applications:
- Massimo Bergamasco (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
- Uwe Zimmermann (KUKA, Germany)

Hands-on Demos:
- Iker Aguinaga (CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas
de Gipuzkoa, Spain)
- Ana Rosa Carrillo (LABEIN, Spain)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
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Carlo Alberto Avizzano (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Denis Mottet (UM1, Université Montpellier 1, France)
Emanuele Ruffaldi (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Antonio Frisoli (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Franco Tecchia (PERCRO, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Italy)
Grigori Evreinov (University of Tampere, Finland)
Sile O'Modhrain (Queens University, Belfast, UK)
Dorte Hammershøi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Tony Chabiron (HAPTION, France)
Andrew Stoddart (OMG, UK)
Marco Vescovi (SIMONAZZI, Italy)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
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This conference is co-funded by the European Commission

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