[Tccc] FW: [SKILLS]Skills track on Virtual Conference 2010

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* Special track on Multimodal Interfaces for Skills Learning<http://www.idmme-virtualconcept.estia.fr/index.php?page=2010> *
* http://www.idmme-virtualconcept.estia.fr/index.php?page=2010 *
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* of Virtual Concept 2010 *
* http://www.idmme-virtualconcept.estia.fr/ *
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* October 20th-22th 2010, Biarritz, France *
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SCOPE:
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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 session 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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Full Draft Paper submission | May 14th, 2010
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Acceptance notification for papers| June 14th, 2010
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Camera ready submission | July 21st, 2010
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Author Commitment | July 21st, 2010
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Conference| Oct 20th-22nd,
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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. More details on the conference web page.
http://www.idmme-virtualconcept.estia.fr/index.php?page=27 (paper template)
http://www.idmme-virtualconcept.estia.fr/index.php?page=23 (Submission steps)

SESSION CHAIRS:
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Emilio Sánchez (esanchez@ceit.es<mailto:esanchez@ceit.es>)and Luis Matey (lmatey@ceit.es<mailto:lmatey@ceit.es>)
CEIT, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain

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Emilio Sánchez, PhD
CEIT
Dep. of Applied Mechanics
Pº de Manuel Lardizábal, 15
20018 San Sebastián, Spain
Tlf: +34 943 21 28 00 ext 2321 (VOIP)
Fax: +34 943 21 30 76
email: esanchez@ceit.es<mailto:esanchez@ceit.es>
url: http://www.ceit.es/