ISUC 2008

Call for Papers/Demos 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication Dec 15 - 16, 2008 Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan

The development of information network systems enables us to communicate with people in remote places "anytime and anywhere", enriching human knowledge, affection and sensibility. However, there are various barriers which stand in our way to using these systems freely and flexibly. In order to discuss how to overcome these barriers and create a more human-centered communication environment, in 2007 the first International Symposium on Universal Communication was held in Kyoto, Japan featuring discussions with well-known researchers from around the world. Following its success, the second International Symposium on Universal Communication will be held in Osaka, Japan. Topics of interest are as follows, but not limited to - Information retrieval and information analysis - Information credibility - Knowledge processing - Language resources - Speech recognition and synthesis - Machine translation and speech translation - Natural language processing - Spoken language processing - Multilingual information processing - Super high-resolution image technology - 3D visualization, imaging and display technologies - 3D sound processing - Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality - Multisensory (visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, etc) interaction - Human factors - Human interface and interaction technologies - Real-world sensing technologies

General Chair Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

General Vice Chairs Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan

Technical Program Committee Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, NICT/ATR, Japan Vice Chair: Naomi Inoue, NICT/ATR, Japan - Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan - Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA - Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France - Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy - Sidney Fels, The University of British Columbia, Canada - Jukka Häkkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea - Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan - Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan - Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan - Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan - Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan - Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK - Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan - Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan - Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Melon University, USA - Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan - Eiichiro Sumita, NICT/ATR, Japan - Yoiti Suzuki, Tohoku University, Japan - Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan - Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan - Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan - Chiu-yu Tseng, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan - Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland - Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology, Australia - Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Canada - Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan - Kwon Yongjin, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea - Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France

Demo Chair Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan

Technical Advisors Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan Michitaka Hirose, Tokyo University, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Yukio Takahashi, NICT Contact info: isuc2008@khn.nict.go.jp

Website http://www.is-uc.org/2008/

Venue Osaka International Convention Center 3-51 Nakanoshima 5-chome,Kita-ku,Osaka, Japan http://www.gco.co.jp/english/english.html

Submission Information All papers must be submitted through the ISUC 2008 homepage at http://www.is-uc.org/2008.

Paper submission: The extended abstract must be written in English and is limited to 2 pages in the IEEE 2-column format. This abstract should also indicate whether it is an oral paper or a poster, and be submitted in PDF. Once accepted, the camera-ready paper shall be 4~8 pages, not exceeding 8 pages. More detailed author guidelines are available at http://www.is-uc.org/2008/submission.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries as well as indexed through IET INSPEC, EI (Compendex) and Thomson ISI.

Demo submission: Please submit a one-page description of your demo in PDF. This description must be written in English and should include: An abstract of what you will show, Space needed, Facilities needed including power supply and Internet access. A specified submission format will be available on the ISUC 2008 homepage.

Important Dates Papers: Extended Abstract due July 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance August 29, 2008 Camera-ready papers due September 26, 2008

Demos: Submission of description due September 19, 2008 Notification of acceptance October 10, 2008 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP