[Webmath] CfP: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

[Ulrich Kortenkamp]

Dear List,

apologies if you already know about this. Please find below the Call for
Papers for the 3rd MTEL workshop.

Ulli
                    		
                        		
                The Third IEEE International Workshop on
              Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

        http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~knipping/ieee/ism08-mtel/
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             A workshop held in conjuction with the

        The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008)
	            http://ism2008.eecs.uci.edu/

		             December 15-17, 2008
                             Berkeley, USA
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                            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.

Quality control and learning processes with feedback loops are  
considered
to be important concepts for more effective and sustainable e-learning  
solutions.
Multimedia technologies facilitate the evaluation, improvement, and  
assurance
of quality in loopback controlled e-learning processes. Multimedia  
feedback
from individual and collaborative learning processes is essential for  
loopback
control, spanning from human feedback on e-learning processes,  
computer-generated
multimedia feedback, feedback concerning the transition from  
traditional to
multimedia content (including authoring processes), and meta-feedback.
The goals are the online adaptation of a multimedia e-learning system,
the improvement of the quality of the next version of such a system,
or the integration of the quality feedback in the teaching/learning  
process
(e.g., in a university course).

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
    - Implicit and explicit learner feedback
    - User Tracking
    - Quality measures and assessment
    - Scaffolding
    - Support for multimedia authoring processes with feedback loops


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 at 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 send Word documents! Please do not hesitate to email the
  workshop contact if you have any questions.

Important Dates:
  Submission due: 			July 13, 2008
  Notification: 			August 28, 2008
  Camera-Ready version due: 	September 15, 2008

Co-Chairs:
  Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
  Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
  Nadine Ludwig, Berlin Technical University, Germany

Program Committee:
  Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria
  Helmar Burkhart, University of Basel, Switzerland
  Paul Dickson, University of Massachussets, USA
  Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Ulrich Kortenkamp, Pädagogische Hochschule Gmünd, Germany
  Ying Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
  Marcus Liwicki, University of Bern, Switzerland
  Robert Mertens, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
  Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Anna Marina Scapolla, University of Genova, Italy
  Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Australia
  Georg Turban, Darmstadt Institute of Technology, Germany
  Dominique Vaufreydaz, Université Pierre-Mendes, France
  Debora Weber-Wulff, FHTW Berlin, Germany
  Peter Ziewer, Munich Institute of Technology, Germany