After the success of VisHCI 2006 and the feedback we have received from participants, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI will happen again in 2007! VisHCI 2007 will be held in conjunction with DICTA 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia. DICTA is the main Australian conference on machine vision, image processing and related areas, and is the biennial conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society.
To maximise the opportunities for scholarly exchange and to make the most of the co-location of VisHCI 2007 and DICTA 2007, this year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day on Sunday, 2 December 2007, which is just before the DICTA conference, at the same location as DICTA 2007, the Stamford Grand Adelaide Hotel in Glenelg, Adelaide. A total of 4 tutorials will be offered by renowned international and Australian researchers Fang Chen (NICTA), David Cristinacce (U Manchester, UK), Edwin Hancock (U York, UK), and Michael Frater (ADFA/UNSW). Participants interested in submitting a paper in an area relevant to VisHCI are invited to submit these to the DICTA 2007 conference where they will undergo the normal review process and accepted papers will be published in the DICTA 2007 proceedings.
The VisHCI 2007 workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of discplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Visual communication - such as hand and body gestures, facial expressions, auditory-visual speech, sign language etc. - is a major communication channel for humans. The availability of low-cost camera technology has led to an increased use of visual evidence in HCI.
One of the aims of HCSNet is to foster collaborations across discplines. Visual HCI research is multi-disciplinary and both computer vision and HCI research have a strong tradition in Australia. Relevant disciplines include computer science, engineering, IT, psychology and spoken language research to name a few. Our goal is to provide an Australian-based, international forum for the presentation and discussion of current trends and recent ideas and results from leading national and international scientists to foster scholarly exchange and future collaborations in the human communication sciences.
Thanks to the generous support from HCSNet, registration for
VisHCI 2007 will again be free.