ICMI 2015 – Seattle, USA September 14-18, 2015 or

November 9-13, 2015

Highlights of the Seattle Proposal • Great location: one of America’s most livable cities • Experienced organization committee • Open house at Microsoft • Theme: MI on mobile/wearable devices & large displays

Seattle • Largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America • Great city of science, technology, culture and stunning nature • Easy to get there • Light-rail system from Sea-Tac airport to downtown Seattle for less than $3.00

International Direct Flights

Direct Flights from within the US

Mount Rainier

Olympic National Park

North Cascades National Park

San Juan Islands

693 Wineries

Waterfront Park

Shopping Malls

Pike Place Market

Museum of Flight

EMP Museum

Cuisine

Coffee

Nightlife

Jazz Alley

An Experienced Team

Organization Team (1) • General Chairs • Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research, USA) • Phil Cohen (Adapx, USA)

• Program Chairs • Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research, USA) • multimodal conversation systems

• Radu Horaud (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France) • multimodal from vision side

• Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) • multimodal from speech side

General Chairs

Zhengyou Zhang

Phil Cohen

ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow Program Co-Chair, ICMI 2010 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE TAMD

Founder & EVP, Adapx Sponsorship Chair, ICMI 200X, 2013 Organizer of PUI, predecessor of ICMI

Program Chairs

Dan Bohus

Radu Horaud

Helen Meng

General Chair, ICMI 2012

Director of Research, INRIA Best paper award at ICMI 2011 Program Co-Chair, ICCV 2001 Associate Editors, …

IEEE Fellow

Best paper award, ICMI 2009 Best paper award, SigDial 2009 Organizer, Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE TASLP IEEE Board of Governors Publicity Chair, ICMI2011 Publication Chair, ICMI 2013

Organization Team (2) • Workshop Chair • Jean-Marc Odobez (IDIAP, Switzerland)

• Demo Chairs • Hrvoje Benko (Microsoft Research, USA) • Stefan Scherer (University of Southern California, USA)

• Multimodal Grand Challenge Chair • Malcolm Slaney (Microsoft Research, USA)

• Doctoral Consortium Chair • Carlos Busso (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Organization Team (3) • Publication Chair • Lisa Anthony (University of Florida in Gainesville, USA)

• Publicity Chairs • Xilin Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) • Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA)

• Sponsorship Chair • YingLi Tian (City University of New York, USA)

• Local Organization Chairs • Qin Cai (Microsoft Research, USA) • Mike Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA) Note: We plan to invite more from Europe and Japan.

Zhengyou Zhang Zhengyou Zhang received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China, the M.S. degree from the University of Nancy, France, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree and the Doctorate of Science (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) from the University of Paris XI, Paris, France, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is a Principal Researcher with Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA, and the Research Manager of the “Multimedia, Interaction, and Communication” group. Before joining Microsoft Research in March 1998, he was with INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), France, for 11 years and was a Senior Research Scientist from 1991. In 1996-1997, he spent a one-year sabbatical as an Invited Researcher with the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan. He served as an Adjunct Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He is also an Affiliate Professor with the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. He has published over 200 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and has coauthored the following books: 3-D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach (Springer-Verlag, 1992); Epipolar Geometry in Stereo, Motion and Object Recognition (Kluwer, 1996); Computer Vision (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1998, 2003, in Chinese); Face Detection and Adaptation (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and Face Geometry and Appearance Modeling (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has given a number of keynotes in international conferences and invited talks in universities. Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, an Associate Editor of Machine Vision and Applications, and an Area Editor of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 2000 to 2004, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2004 to 2009, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence from 1997 to 2009, among others. He has been on the program committees for numerous international conferences in the areas of computer vision, audio and speech signal processing, multimedia, human-computer interaction, and autonomous mental development. He was a member of the Pre- and Interim Steering Committee, in 2009, in charge of revamping the International Conference of Multimedia and Expo (ICME), the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies. He served as Area Chair, Program Chair, or General Chair of a number of international conferences, including recently a Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2010, a Program Co-Chair of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), October 2010, a Program Co-Chair of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), November 2010, and a General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), October 2011. He served as the Chair of a new track “Technical Briefs” of the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference, Nov. 28 – Dec. 1st, 2012.

Philip R. Cohen Dr. Philip R Cohen is Founder and Executive VP of Research at Adapx Inc. Cohen was previously professor and co-director of the Center for Human-Computer Communication in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health and Science University, and a Sr. Computer Scientist and Director of the Natural Language Program in the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International. Adapx Inc was founded to commercialize natural interface technology, in particular digital paper and pen and multimodal interfaces, for field data collection tasks. Cohen has been engaged in research in the areas of natural user interfaces, multimodal interaction, multiagent systems, and human-computer dialogue for 35 years. He has recently led projects on multimodal course of action creation, and on digital paper applications for field medical data collection, traumatic brain injury assessment, and aircraft repair. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and has been President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and a member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology (ISAT) panel. Cohen has more than 100 journal and conference publications, and 5 patents. He is the recipient (with Prof. Hector Levesque) of an inaugural Influential Paper award by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. ICMI Sponsorships Chair/Co-Chair, 200X, 2013 Member, Organizing Committee, Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, 1998, 1997. These workshops then became the foundation for ICMI.

Dan Bohus Dan Bohus is a Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research. The central question that drives his long term research agenda is: how can we develop systems that naturally embed interaction and computation deeply into the flow of everyday tasks, activities, and collaborations? Specifically, in the last few years Dan’s work has focused on developing computational models for multiparty engagement, turn taking, interaction planning, and on addressing the challenges in inference and decision making that such models bring to the fore. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dan obtained his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he investigated problems of dialog management and error handling in speech interfaces. Some related community activity items / awards: • • • • • •

General chair for ICMI’2012 in Santa Monica, CA Best paper award at ICMI’2009, Boston, MA Best paper award at SIGdial’2009, London, UK Organizer for the 1st Young Researcher’s Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems PC for various conferences like IUI, ICMI, SIGdial, HLT-NAACL, UIST Reviewer for journals like TIIS, CSL, Speech Communication, TSLP

Radu P. Horaud Radu P. Horaud received the BSc degree (1977) in electrical engineering, the MSc degree (1979) in control engineering, and the PhD degree (1981) in computer science from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. Currently he holds a position of director of research (equivalent of full professor) at INRIA Grenoble Rh^one-Alpes and is the leader of the PERCEPTION group that he founded in 2006. His main research interests include computer vision, robotics, machine learning, audio signal processing, and audio-visual integration. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications. He is an area editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier), an associate editor of International Journal of Robotics Research (Kluwer) and an advisory board member of International Journal of Robotics Research (Sage). He was involved in the PC of many prestigious computer vision and robotics conferences, and was program co-chair of ICCV'01, the most prestigious computer vision conference. In 2013, he was awarded a five year grant from the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) for his project Vision and Hearing in Action (VHIA). He published several papers at ICMI conferences and workshops, and participated to the D-META challenge in conjunction with ICMI'12. He received the outstanding paper award at ICMI'11

Helen M. Meng Helen M. Meng received the S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. She has been a Research Scientist at the MIT Spoken Language Systems Group, where she worked on multilingual conversational systems. She joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1998, where she is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. She was also the past Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. In 1999, she established the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory at CUHK and serves as director. In 2005, she established the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, which was upgraded to MoEMicrosoft Key Laboratory in 2008, and serves as Co-Director. She is also Co-Director of the Tsinghua-CUHK Joint Research Center for Media Sciences, Technologies and Systems. Helen’s research interest is in the area of human-computer interaction via multimodal and multilingual spoken language systems, as well as translingual speech retrieval technologies. She is a Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association and the immediate past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING. She has also been elected IEEE Fellow in 2013 and also the IEEE Board of Governors in 2014. Helen has previously served as Publicity Chair of ICMI2011.

Jean-Marc Odobez Principal Investigator, IDIAP, Switzerland http://www.idiap.ch/~Odobez/

Hrvoje Benko Hrvoje Benko is a researcher in Natural Interaction Research group at Microsoft Research. My research interests include augmented reality, computational illumination, surface computing, new input form factors and devices, as well as touch and freehand gestural input. I am fascinated by the intersection point where the digital technology world meets the curved, physical, 3D space we live in. I have been active in the Human-Computer Interaction research community and I have had the pleasure of serving on various program committees (CHI, UIST, ISMAR, ITS). I was a program co-chair for ACM UIST 2012 and I am the general chair for ACM UIST 2014. In 2010, I worked with Microsoft Hardware to turn one of my research projects into a product. We created Microsoft Touch Mouse which enables the user to use touch gestures on top of the mouse to control their Windows experience. Prior to working at Microsoft, I received my PhD at Columbia University, working on augmented reality projects that combine immersive experiences with interactive tabletops.

Stefan Scherer Stefan Scherer was born in Austria, in 1983. In 2011, he finished his doctoral studies to receive the degree of Dr. rer. nat. from the faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Ulm University. Scherer’s thesis, entitled “Analyzing the User’s State in HCI: From Crisp Emotions to Conversational Dispositions”, received the grade summa cum laude (i.e. with distinction). During his time as a PhD student, Scherer had the opportunity to co-supervise thesis projects of several international students, co-organize lectures and seminars, participate in the graduate school of the SFB/TRR 62 (a German Research Foundation funded project), act as the speaker of the PhD students, and work at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) in Kyoto Japan in collaboration with Prof. Nick Campbell as a visiting researcher supported by the German Exchange Service (DAAD). As a postdoctoral researcher, he had the opportunity to collect experience at the internationally renowned Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and later at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, California. Currently, Scherer is working as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies with Louis-Philippe Morency. His research fields of interest are behavior analytics, human machine interaction, social signal processing, and affective computing.

Malcolm Slaney BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D., Purdue University. Dr. Malcolm Slaney is a principal scientist at Microsoft Research (Silicon Valley). He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford CCRMA, where he has led the Hearing Seminar for more than 20 years, and an Affiliate Faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and (former) Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing and IEEE Multimedia Magazine. He has given successful tutorials at ICASSP 1996 and 2009 on “Applications of Psychoacoustics to Signal Processing,” on “Multimedia Information Retrieval” at SIGIR and ICASSP, and “Web-Scale Multimedia Data” at ACM Multimedia 2010. He is a coauthor, with A. C. Kak, of the IEEE book Principles of “Computerized Tomographic Imaging”. This book was recently republished by SIAM in their “Classics in Applied Mathematics” Series. He is coeditor, with Steven Greenberg, of the book Computational Models of Auditory Function. Before joining Microsoft Research, Dr. Slaney has worked at Bell Laboratory, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, Apple Computer, Interval Research, IBM’s Almaden Research Center, and Yahoo! Research. For many years, he has lead the auditory group at the Telluride Neuromorphic (Cognition) Workshop. Dr. Slaney’s recent work is on understanding multimodal conversational speech in addition to general audio perception.

Malcolm organized the second annual ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge Competition in 2010. An article describing this competition is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5720672

Carlos Busso • Carlos Busso is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He received his B.S (2000) and M.S (2003) degrees with high honors in electrical engineering from University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and his Ph.D (2008) in electrical engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA. Before joining UTD, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL), USC. He was selected by the School of Engineering of Chile as the best Electrical Engineer graduated in Chile in 2003. At USC, he received a Provost Doctoral Fellowship from 2003 to 2005 and a Fellowship in Digital Scholarship from 2007 to 2008. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society, the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), and the International Speech Communication Association (ICSA). He has been active in research with over 60 publications. He received the Hewlett Packard Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011). He is the Coauthor of the winner paper of the Classifier Sub-Challenge event at the Interspeech 2009 emotion challenge. He is in the organizing committee of different international conferences including Intespeech 2016 (Publication Chair), IEEE FG 2015 (Doctoral Consortium Chair), IEEE ICME 2014 (Publication Chair) and ACM ICMI 2014 (Workshop Chair). • His research interests are in digital signal processing, speech and video processing, and multimodal interfaces. As the director of the Multimodal Signal Processing (MSP) Laboratory (http://msp.utdallas.edu), his current research includes the broad areas of affective computing, multimodal human-machine interfaces, modeling and synthesis of verbal and nonverbal behaviors, sensing human interaction, and machine learning methods for multimodal processing. • Involvement in the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction • • • • •

Workshop Chair of ICMI 2014 Doctoral Spotlight Chair for ICMI 2013 Reviewer in 2013 Doctoral Spotlight Chair for ICMI 2012 First author of the paper “Analysis of emotion recognition using facial expressions, speech and multimodal information” (ICMI 2004) which is the 5th most cited article at ICMI all time.

Lisa Anthony Lisa Anthony is an Assistant Professor in the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) department at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States. She received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 2002. She also received a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 2008. Previously, from 2008 to 2010, she was a Senior Engineer at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States), and then a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland, United States), from 2010 to 2012 and in 2013, respectively. Her research interests include human-computer interaction issues related to natural input technologies such as pen and finger gestures on touchscreens, spoken language interaction, and whole body interaction. Dr. Anthony was a recipient of an Outstanding Paper Award at ICMI 2011, and a Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCHI 2013.

My service to ICMI has included: * reviewer 2008, 2011-2013 (PC member in 2011) * Publications Chair 2012

Xilin Chen Xilin Chen received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1988, 1991, and 1994, respectively. He was a professor with the Harbin Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2005. He was a visiting scholar with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, from 2001 to 2004. Since August 2004, He has been a professor with the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he is also with the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, CAS. He is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, CAS. He has published one book and over 200 papers in refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and multimodal interfaces. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, a leading editor of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and an associate editor in chief of the Chinese Journal of Computers. He served as general chair of FG 2013, program chair of ICMI 2010, tutorial chair of FG 2011, workshop chair of ICMI 2009, demo chair of ICMI 2006, finance chair of ISCAS 2013, and local chair of ACM MM 2009 and ICME 2007. He also served as a program committee member for more than 40 International Conferences in related areas, including ICCV, CVPR, ICIP, ICPR, ICME, ACM MM, etc.

Louis-Philippe Morency Louis-Philippe Morency is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab) at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He received his Ph.D. and Master degrees from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2008, Dr. Morency was selected as one of "AI's 10 to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems. He has received 7 best paper awards in multiple ACMand IEEE-sponsored conferences for his work on context-based gesture recognition, multimodal probabilistic fusion and computational models of human communication dynamics. For the past two years, Dr. Morency has been leading a DARPA-funded multi-institution effort which created SimSensei, an interactive virtual human platform for healthcare decision support, and MultiSense, a multimodal perception library designed to objectively quantify behavioral indicators of psychological distress. Conference Program Chair • • •

16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) which will be hosted in Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 The Tenth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, January 2012 13th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Alicante, Spain, November 2011

General Chair • • • • • • • • • • •

14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, October 2012 First Workshop on Multimodal Learning Analytics, co-located with ICMI 2012, Santa Monica, CA, October 2012 Workshop on Multimodal Behavior Understanding, co-located with ICPR 2012, September 2012 4th International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE), co-located with ICMI 2011, November 2011 First workshop on Machine Learning and Affective Computing, co-located with ACII 2011, Memphis, October 2011 NIPS workshop on Modeling Human Communication Dynamics, Whistler, Canada, December 10, 2010 First Workshop on Predictive Models of Human Communication Dynamics, Los Angeles, California, August 4-6, 2010 Second Workshop on Use of Context in Video Processing, in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, June 13, 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis (SBA) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), in Santa Barbara, CA, March 2011 ACM Multimedia 3rd International Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE), October 2010 First Workshop on Use of Context in Vision Processing, Boston, MA, November 5th, 2009

YingLi Tian YingLi Tian received her BS and MS from TianJin University, China in 1987 and 1990 and her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1996. After holding a faculty position at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, she joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, where she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute. Then she worked as a research staff member in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2001 to 2008. She is one of the inventors of the IBM Smart Surveillance Solutions. She is currently a professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. Her current research focuses on a wide range of computer vision problems from motion detection and analysis, assistive technology, to human identification, facial expression analysis, and video surveillance. She coorganized the 2nd and 3rd Greater New York Area Multimedia and Vision Meeting in 2012 (at Columbia University) and 2013 (at the City College of New York), the workshop " IEEE Workshop on Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP)" in conjuction with ICME2013, the special session " Action Recognition from Rich Media and Depth Cameras" and the Doctoral Consortium of ICME 2014.

Qin Cai Qin Cai is currently a Senior Research Engineer in Multimedia, Interaction and Communication group in Microsoft Research Redmond. Her main research interest is to create immersive human to computer, human to human interaction using multimedia. She is experienced in building real time multimedia systems using startof-art technologies in computer vision, image processing and recently graphics. Before MSR, Dr. Cai was a member of Microsoft Speech Component Group since Nov. 2004, working on developing automatic speech recognition on both desktops and CE devices. Her experience includes both full cycle of experimenting and implementation on algorithms and system components, and delivery of featured components well integrated into MS products. Prior to this, Dr. Cai has been involved in the research and development in areas such as computer vision and image processing, statistical signal processing, data mining, and streaming media web services in companies such as RealNetworks, MathSoft, etc. Dr. Cai received a B.S. in 1989 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, an M.S. in 1993 from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, both in electrical engineering. She holds a Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin, in computer engineering.

Mike Seltzer Mike Seltzer has been a Researcher in the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research since October, 2003. He did his graduate work in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving M.S. in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2003. While at CMU, he was a member of the Robust Speech Recognition group, led by Professor Richard Stern. His dissertation research focused on improving recognition accuracy in hands-free environments using microphone arrays. From 1996-1998, he worked at Teradyne, Inc. as an Applications Engineer. Teradyne makes automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry. He received hisB.S. at Brown University in 1996. At Brown, he worked in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMS) with Professor Harvey Silverman on a huge microphone array project that was called, in fact, the Huge Microphone Array.

Program Outline Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Doctoral Symposium

Keynote 1

Keynote 2

Keynote 3

Workshops

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:20-12:00

Oral Session

Oral Session

Oral Session

Workshops

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Demos/Posters

Grange Challenges

Demos/Posters

Workshops

16:10-16:30

Break

Break

Break

Break

16:30-18:10

Oral Session

Oral Session

Oral Session

Workshops

09:00-10:00 10:00-10:20

13:30-16:10

18:10-21:00

Open House at Microsoft

Reception/ Cruise on lake

Banquet/ Awards

Dates • Option 1: September 14-18, 2015 (beautiful weather) • Option 2: November 9-13, 2015 (traditional ICMI dates) • Flexible • ICCV: December 7-13; Santiago, Chile • ACM Multimedia: 11-16 October • Deadline: 2015-03-25; Sydney, Australia

Weather • Seattle, Washington has a Mediterranean climate with dry warm summers and mild winters. • Average weather in September http://weatherspark.com/averages/31576/9/Seattle-Washington-United-States

• Average weather in November http://weatherspark.com/averages/31576/11/Seattle-Washington-UnitedStates

Weather in September Daily High and Low Temperature

Probability of Precipitation at Some Point in the Day

24⁰C

Between 0 & 0.25 cm/h 13⁰C Between 0.25 & 0.76 cm/h

Weather in November Daily High and Low Temperature

13⁰C

7⁰C

Probability of Precipitation at Some Point in the Day

Venue: Red Lion Hotel 1415 Fifth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Conference Facilities • Two floors • Third Floor: Emerald Ballroom – 549 People • Fourth Floor: Seattle Ballroom – 372 People

• UbiComp 2014 will be held there using both floors for 800 people • Organized by AJ Brush, a colleague at MSR; She will be helping us.

• ICMI 2015 will only use the fourth floor • Seattle Ballroom can be configured into 3 rooms (Floor Plan next slide) • We can use • One room: 127 people • Two rooms: 243 people • Three rooms: 372 people

Hotel Rates • Red Lion: $189/day • Note 1: Should our bid be selected, we would leverage the Seattle Visitor’s bureau, which provides assistance in identifying sites and ACM assistance in negotiating hotel contracts. Based on information provided by recent organizers, hotel room costs have ranged between ($149 - $189) and hotels have been willing to provide a block of discounted room for students ($79 - $99 per night). • Note 2: We would leverage many MSR colleagues who recently organized conferences in Seattle: SenSys 2011, iConference 2011, ICCP 2012, CSCW 2012, UbiComp 2014, …

Nearby Hotels • 5 Stars: 2 • 4 Stars: 22 • 3 Stars: 41 • 2 Stars: 37

Transportation • Seattle Washington’s King County Metro Wins the Grand Champion Award at 2011 International Bus Roadeo • Extremely convenient Metro Planner (http://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov/) • Light-rail from SeaTac Airport to Downtwon Seattle in about 20 minutes.

Estimated Registration Fees • ACM Member: • Advanced: $650, regular: $750

• ACM Student Member: • Advanced: $450, regular: $475

• Non-Member: • Advanced: $750, regular: $850

• Student Non-Member: • Advanced: $500, regular: $525

• Workshop: • Advanced: $125, regular: $150

Conference Budget • Based on ICMI 2012 actual budget • Based on very conservative number of participants: 125 instead of 178 at ICMI 2012 • Summary on next slide • Detailed budget in a separate Excel sheet • Surplus: 17.2% • Higher surplus if the number of participants is larger than 125

Conference Budget Summary • Income: $79,975 • • • •

Conference registration: $72,250 Special functions: $600 Workshop registration: $4,125 Donations: $3,000 only include Microsoft; expect $12,000

• Surplus: $11,745 (17.2%)

• Expenses: $68,230 • • • • • • • • • •

Promotions: $772 Registration: $431 Meeting rooms: $2,257 A/V equipment: $1,700 Food & Beverage: $26,200 Program/Publications: $12,341 Challenges: $5,663 Workshops: $7,313 Financial activities: $2,654 Contingency: $8,900