FYI. Deadline = next week.

2012/5/5 Johan Oomen <[log in to unmask]>

> Call for Papers: PATCH 2012 @ ACM Multimedia 2012 Multimedia by the Crowd,
> for the Crowd
>
> http://www.patch2012mm.org
> October 29, 2012, Nara, Japan
> Deadline for submissions: July 1st
>
> In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2012 http://www.acmmm12.org
>
> ============================================
> The goal of the PATCH2012MM workshop is to gather researchers and
> practitioners from different fields, e.g., multimedia retrieval, user
> interaction, arts and heritage curation, interface design and user
> modeling, in order to showcase novel applications and discuss opportunities
> that grow from the connections between users and multimedia systems in the
> cultural heritage domain.
>
> For more information on the workshop scope please visit:
> http://patch2012mm.wordpress.com/background
>
> Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of
> position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active
> discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. We
> invite submissions of work at all stages of development that address any
> aspects of personalization in the cultural heritage domain, e.g., papers
> which describe work in progress, empirical results, position statements,
> and demonstrations of existing systems.
>
> === Topics ===
> - Leveraging human computation, social computing and crowdsourcing to
> improve multimedia retrieval and exploration systems in the cultural
> heritage domain
> - User interaction and interface concepts for personalized access of
> online and on-site cultural heritage
> - Personalized analytics for single users and (small) groups of users -
> Contextualized and context-aware navigation/browsing interfaces
> - Presentation of and interaction with personalized multimedia narratives
> in digital collections
> - Intelligent interfaces for semantically enriched multimedia collections
> - New technologies for making groups smarter
> - Evaluation or real life use-cases of cultural heritage multimedia
> applications
>
> The conference website provides more contextual information regarding the
> workshop topics: http://patch2012mm.wordpress.com/topics/
>
> === Submissions ===
> Paper submissions should follow the general ACM Multimedia submission
> guidelines (http://www.acmmm12.org/paper-submission-instruction/) and
> must comply with the formatting instructions:
>
> Full papers: max. 10 pages
> Position papers: max. 4 pages
> Short papers: max. 4 pages
> Demo papers: max. 4 pages
>
> All papers should be submitted in PDF format via online submission system:
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2012mm
> An international panel of experts will review all submissions. All
> categories of papers will be included in printed ACM MM 2012 Conference &
> Workshops Compilation Proceedings, and added to the online ACM Digital
> Library. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that
> has already been published should not be submitted unless it
> introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.
>
> === Important dates ===
> Paper submission: July 1, 2012
> Author notification: July 12, 2012
> Camera ready: August 15, 2012
>
> === Organizers ===
> - Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> - Johan Oomen, Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
> - Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
> - Jeremy Douglass, U. California San Diego, USA
>
> === Contact ===
> Contact chairs at: [log in to unmask]
> Website: http://www.patch2012mm.org
> Twitter: @PATCH_Workshop #PATCH2012MM
>