Smart Graphics 2009

9th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

Graphics become Smart Graphics when their design and implementation are grounded in an understanding of human abilities, activities, and motivations from design experience and the broad spectrum of cognitive and social sciences.

When knowledge from these diverse fields is combined with new methods, tools and techniques in AI, HCI and computer graphics, environments are created that:

1. engage the user and are aesthetically satisfying; 2. participate in human cognition as external or distributed representations; 3. are sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available informational and computational resources; 4. adapt the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction devices.

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics aims at gathering people from the fields of Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Graphics Design to share experiences and experiments in this new and emerging area of study.

Come and Join the Smart Graphics Experience

Smart Graphics 2009 welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners, as well as artists and graphic designers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the design of smart interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays.

Submission categories are divided into:


 * Full research papers: these will encompass comprehensive descriptions of original work within the scope of the symposium (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format).


 * Posters: tentative or preliminary results of research or design work with emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of the ideas (limited to 4 pages in Springer LNCS format). Poster papers will be included in the proceedings.


 * System demonstrations: short descriptions of research or design work that the authors intend to show and discuss in a demo session at the symposium (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format). System demonstration papers will be included in the proceedings.


 * Arts track: computer animations, interactive art, digital music, hybrid art, etc. A two-three page proposal outlining the concept and technique of the artwork. An international jury of renowned scientists and artists will select the submissions that best represent the idea of <>. Selected works will be exhibited during the Smart Graphics symposium, within the framework of the 5th International Arts Festival of Castilla y León. A report of the art track including all the selected works will be included in the proceedings. The best piece will be awarded and its author will be invited to the sysmposium.

Smartgraphics specially encourages young researchers to submit their ideas and results. As in previous conferences, proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):


 * information visualization
 * visual analytics
 * graphical abstraction
 * multimodal information presentation
 * non-desktop interfaces
 * user interaction
 * sketch-based interfaces
 * interaction science
 * scene perception
 * cognitive sciences
 * user studies
 * computer graphics
 * artificial intelligence
 * virtual and mixed reality
 * graphics design
 * technological art

This year, we propose a specific emphasis on visual analytics as well as all kinds of transversal research that harnesses the power of humans and technological artefacts in order to convey, understand and deal with complex scientific and social processes.

Smart Graphics, beyond a conventional conference, will be intertwined with the 5th International Arts Festival of Castilla y León (http://www.festivalcyl.com/), and we invite artists, technologists and scholars from all disciplines to convene in Salamanca, May 28-30, 2009. Both during the Smart Graphics Symposium and during the Festival (May 29-June 15) workshops, system demonstrations, exhibitions, performances, panels and open discussions related to how information technology is provided to the society and how art is evolving and taking advantage of technological artefacts in its quest of new artistic forms, will become part of the unique streets and buildings of UNESCO?s World Heritage city of Salamanca.

IMPORTANT DATES
January 23rd 2009 (submission deadline)

February 23rd, 2009 (notification of results)

March 7th, 2009 (camera ready copy due)

May 28-30, 2009 (Symposium in Salamanca, Spain)

ORGANIZERS

 * has OC member::Andreas Butz            (University of Munich, Germany)
 * has OC member::Marc Christie            (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)
 * has OC member::Brian Fisher              (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
 * has OC member::Antonio Krueger      (University of Muenster, Germany)
 * has OC member::Patrick Olivier           (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
 * has OC member::Roberto Therón       (University of Salamanca, Spain)

COMMITEE (tentative)

 * has PC member::Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
 * has PC member::William Bares (Millsaps College)
 * has PC member::Luca Chittaro (University of Udine)
 * has PC member::Sarah Diamond (Ontario College of Art and Design)
 * has PC member::Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
 * has PC member::David S. Ebert (Purdue University)
 * has PC member::Knut Hartmann (Flensburg University of Applied Science)
 * has PC member::Hiroshi Hosobe (Tokyo National Institute of Informatics)
 * has PC member::Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI?CNRS)
 * has PC member::Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)
 * has PC member::Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab)
 * has PC member::Shigeru Owada (Sony CSL)
 * has PC member::W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design)
 * has PC member::Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg)
 * has PC member::Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg)
 * has PC member::Mateu Sbert (University of Girona)
 * has PC member::Shigeo Takahashi (University of Tokyo)
 * has PC member::Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich)
 * has PC member::Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento)

For a full description of the scope of the Symposium, and details of previous events, see the website: http://www.smartgraphics.org

For any queries, please use the contact address: (theron at usal.es)