Call for Papers/Demos

3rd International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009)

December 3 - 4, 2009
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan

     In today’s world, ICT infrastructure capable of distributing massive amounts of information anytime, anywhere is becoming more abundant. However, from the viewpoint of the potential to exchange “any kind of information with anyone” as we like, we have come to recognize various barriers such as those of language, mistrust and distance. In order to discuss how to overcome these barriers and create more human-centered communication environments, we have held two International Symposia in Kyoto and Osaka in 2007 and 2008 respectively, under the basic concept of “Universal Communication”. This year, we will have the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009) in Tokyo, Japan, aiming to further promote productive discussion and research exchange.

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Joseph Mariani, Director, Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information, France
• Dr. Mario Tokoro, President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Japan
• Prof. Randy H. Katz, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.
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

Track 2: <Ultra Realistic Communications>

• 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

Track 3: <Sensor and Human-interaction>

• Human interface and interaction technologies
• Real-world sensing technologies
• Human behavior detection and analysis
• User support technologies
• Sensor data mining

Submission Information

All papers must be submitted through the IUCS 2009 homepage at http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/.
Submission page: https://www.i-uc-s.org/submission/IUCS2009/.

·Paper submission:
     The extended abstract must be written in English and is limited to 2 pagesin the ACM format http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
When submitting a paper, please also indicate whether it is an oral paper or a poster, and be submitted as a PDF file. Once accepted, the camera-ready paper shall be 4 to 8 pages, not exceeding 8 pages.
     More detailed author guidelines will be available at http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library.

·Demo submission:
     Please submit a one-page description of your demo as a PDF file. This description must be written in English and should include: an abstract of what you will show, space needed, facilities needed (including power supplies and Internet access). A specified submission format will be available on the IUCS 2009 homepage.

Important Dates

Website
http://www.i-uc-s.org/2009/

Venue
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
2-41, Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/

General Chair
Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan

General Vice Co-Chairs
Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA
Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan

Technical Program Committee
Co-Chairs:
     Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
     Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan
     Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan

Track Chairs:
     Track 1: <Speech and Language Processing>: Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
     Track 2: <Ultra Realistic Communications>: Naomi Inoue, NICT, Japan
     Track 3: <Sensor and Human-interaction>: Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan

• Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Hiroshi Ando, NICT, Japan
• Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA
• HyunSang Cho, KAIST, Korea
• Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
• Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy
• Jukka Häkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
• Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan
• Yukio Iwaya, Tohoku University, Japan
• Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan
• Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan
• Kentaro Kayama, NICT, Japan
• Junichi Kazama, NICT, Japan
• Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
• Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK
• Youngjae Kim, KAIST, Korea
• Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan
• Yongjin Kwon, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea
• Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
• Yohei Murakami, NICT, Japan
• Masaki Murata, NICT, Japan
• Keisuke Nakano, Niigata University, Japan
• Makoto Okui, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Mahdad N. Shirazi, NICT, Japan
• Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Eiichiro Sumita, NICT, 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
• Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France
• Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs
     Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea
     Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
     Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
     Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs
     Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
     Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan

Demo Chair
     Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan

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

Steering Committee

• Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
• Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan
• Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
• Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
• Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan
• Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan
• Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan
• Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Makoto Okui, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea
• Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
• Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan
• Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
• Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China

IUCS2009 Secretariat

If you have any questions, please contact us at iucs2009@khn.nict.go.jp.

IUCS2008 Information

ISUC2008 was held on Dec. 15-16, 2008.
HomePage: http://www.i-uc-s.org/2008