CFP: MTEL 2006

Posted by ralf at 2006-06-30 09:44         The First IEEE International Workshop on
          Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

       http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~knipping/ieee/ism06-mtel/
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         A workshop held in conjuction with the

    The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006)
            http://ism2006.eecs.uci.edu
            
            December 11-13, 2006

             San Diego, California, USA ========================================================================

               Call for Papers

Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for
multimedia.

Video capturing of lectures to produce e-learning content has
become common practice.  Simulations allow to explore experiments which would be too expensive or too dangerous to be conducted physically by students.  Multimedia-powered demonstrations are freed from many physical restrictions such as the availability of an object to study or the timescale of an effect to observe. Teaching enriched by vivid presentations and possibility for interaction for students can also gain from improved learner's motivation.  Concepts may be given perceivable existence in a demonstration and the observability of important details can be augmented.

With the present amounts of educational data produced, there is a high demand in techniques and methods capable of handling multimedia
contents adequately. Educational content has to be presented, deployed,
navigated, searched, retrieved, edited, combined, and reused in a
proper way.

Most of these topics involve techniques from artificial intelligence, computer vision, multimedia, but also human computer interaction, and psychology.  This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in this intersection area between the technological point of view and the human-centered view. The topics include but are not limited to:

    - Automated lecture recording and presentation techniques
    - Automated lecture analysis and indexing
    - Classroom note taking and whiteboard capturing and analysis
    - Automated analysis of learning and teaching interactions
    - Repositories for multimedia education  
    - Multimedia information retrieval for educational use
    - Intelligent searching and navigation in e-learning portals
    - Interactive computer-based training
    - Simulations, animations, and virtual laboratories in teaching
    - Virtual reality and augmented reality in education
    - Multimedia authoring software for e-learning

Workshop Proceedings
 The workshop solicits regular technical papers of up to 6 pages
 (IEEE double-column format). Workshop papers will be official
 publications of IEEE which will be included in IEEEXplore and also be
 available as printed workshop proceedings.

 A number of selected papers will be invited for extension and
 publication in a special issue of ITSE (International Journal
 of Interactive Technology and Smart Education) published by
 Troubador, UK.

Submission Details:
 Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any
 other conference or journal. Papers should be submitted in electronic
 form (PDF) to the organizers at ieeemtel@gmail.com.
 Submissions must be formatted according to the 8.5x11 inch double
 column IEEE CS proceedings format and must not exceed 6 pages. For
 downloading instructions and templates, go to the Author Forms web
 page of the IEEE Computer Society:  http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications/cps/cps_forms.html
 
 Please do not hesitate to email the workshop contact if you have any  questions.
 
Important Dates:
 Submission due: August 1, 2006 23:59 PDT (UTC/GMT-7 hours).
 Notification: September 10, 2006
 Camera-Ready version due: September 25, 2006

Co-Chairs:
 Gerald Friedland, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
 Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Program Committee:
 Abdallah Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan  Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria  Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany  Helmar Burkhart, University of Basel, Switzerland  Berna Erol, Ricoh California Research Center, USA  Claude Ghaoui, Liverpool John Moores University, UK  Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, USA  Martin Hepp, University in Innsbruck & DERI Labs, Germany  Wolfgang Huerst, University of Freiburg, Germany  Nick Jackiw, Key Curriculum Press, USA  Sabina Jeschke, Berlin University of Technology, Germany  Bernd J. Kraemer, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany  Ying Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA  Marcus Liwicki, University of Bern, Switzerland  Robert Mertens, University of Osnabrueck, Germany  Jean-Claude Moissinac, ENST Paris, France  Konrad Polthier, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany  Raúl Rojas, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany  Anna Marina Scapolla, University of Genova, Italy  Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Messolonghi, Greece  Martin Stein, Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany  Georg Turban, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany  Debora Weber-Wulff, FHTW Berlin, Germany