Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium ETRA 2010

22nd - 24th March 2010, Austin, TX, USA

Call for Participation

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Motivation

ETRA 2010 will be the sixth biennial symposium in a series that focuses on all aspects of eye movement research across a wide range of disciplines. The goal of ETRA is to bring together computer scientists, engineers and behavioral scientists in support of a common vision of enhancing eye tracking research and applications. This year ETRA is being organized in conjunction with the European Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN) research network that specializes in gaze-based interaction for the benefit of people with physical disabilities.

Symposium Themes

Advances in Eye Tracking Technology

Eye tracking systems, software, algorithms, eye movement analysis techniques and predictive models.

Visual Attention and Eye Movement Control

Studies of eye movements in response to natural stimuli, during driving, while web surfing, and the use of eye movement data for usability studies.

Eye Tracking Applications

Gaze-contingent displays, attentive user interfaces, human computer interfaces, assistive technologies, security systems, multimodal interfaces, ubiquitous computing, augmented and mixed reality systems.

Eye Tracking Data Analysis

Various techniques that perform automatic processing, analysis and interpretation of the raw eye tracking data to remove noise, artifacts, and to extract useful information.

Special Theme: Eye Tracking and Accessibility

Eye tracking has proved to be an effective tool to facilitate the accessibility of computers when the use of keyboards and mice is hindered by the task (such as driving) or by physical disabilities. We invite submissions that explore new methodological strategies, applications, and results that enhance current means of using eye-tracking with computers such as in environment and personal mobility control, attentive interfaces, gaming using gaze as input, and so on.

Submissions

Two categories of submissions are being sought: Full Papers and Short Papers.

Full papers must be submitted electronically through the ETRA submission website and conform to the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings category 2 format. Full paper submissions have a maximum length of eight pages. These should be made in double-blind format, hiding authors' names and affiliations and all references to the authors' previous work. Those wishing to submit a full paper must submit an abstract in advance to facilitate the reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the ETRA 2010 proceedings, and authors will give a 20 minute presentation of the paper at the conference.

Short papers may present work that has smaller scope than a full paper or may present late breaking results. These must be submitted electronically through the ETRA submission website and conform to the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings category 3 format. Short paper submissions have a maximum length of four pages (but can be as short as a one-page abstract). Accepted submissions will be published in the ETRA 2010 proceedings. Authors will present a poster at the conference, and authors of the most highly rated submissions will give a 10- minute presentation of the paper in a Short Papers session.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of an international review panel and members of the program committee. Best Paper Awards will be given to the most highly ranked Full Papers and Short Papers.

Important Dates

Sept. 30th, 2009	Full paper abstract submission deadline
Oct. 7th, 2009	Full paper submission deadline (extended till Oct. 11th)
Nov. 13th, 2009	Full paper acceptance/rejection notice
Dec. 2nd, 2009	Short paper abstract submission deadline
Dec. 6th, 2009	Short paper submission deadline
Jan. 8th, 2010	Short paper acceptance/rejection notice
Jan. 15th, 2010	Authors send full/short papers to the ACM proceedings producer: camera-ready versions of papers in PDF format, and ACM Copyright Form
Deadlines are in Pacific Time

Contact

For any questions on the submission, please contact the conference chairs <etra2010 at ime.usp.br>

Conference Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:

Carlos Morimoto hitoshi [at] ime.usp.br Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Howell Istance hoi [at] dmu.ac.uk De Montfort University, UK

Program Committee:

Program Co-Chairs
Aulikki Hyrskykari ah [at] cs.uta.fi University of Tampere, Finland	Qiang Ji qji [at] ecse.rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Area-Chairs
Anne Aula Anne.Aula [at] gmail.com Google, Mountain View, CA	Andrew Duchowski andrewd [at] cs.clemson.edu Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Moshe Eizenman, eizenm [at] ecf.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Jeffrey Mulligan jeffrey.b.mulligan [at] nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center, CA, USA
Takehiko Ohno, Ohno.Takehiko [at] lab.ntt.co.jp University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Exhibition Chair

John Paulin Hansen paulin [at] itu.dk IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Local Arrangements Chair

Oleg Komogortsev ok11 [at] txstate.edu Texas State University, TX, USA

Webmaster

Päivi Majaranta curly [at] cs.uta.fi University of Tampere, Finland

ETRA 2010 is co-organized with COGAIN