[Bmi] ICMI Challenge on BCI

[A.Nijholt at utwente.nl]

BCI Challenge at ICMI 2012, Santa Monica, 22-26 October 2012

http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/BCIGrandChallenge2012/ 

Call for Papers, Demonstrators or Videos

The field of Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) traditionally conceives of BCIs as a controller for interfaces, a device which allows you to "act on" external devices as a form of input control. However, most BCIs do not provide a reliable and efficient means of input control and are difficult to learn and use relative to other available modes. We propose to change the conceptual use of "BCI as an actor" (input control) into "BCI as an intelligent sensor" (monitor). This shift of emphasis promotes the capacity of BCI to represent spontaneous changes in the state of the user in order to induce intelligent adaptation at the interface. This conceptual change gives rise to 4 grand challenges:

1.	Integration challenge: How can we integrate user-information from different interactions channels and sensors, including BCI?
2.	Interpretation challenge: How can we fuse, but also disentangle and interpret information from the user, the task and the environment? 
3.	Representation challenge: How can we best represent the information to the user?
4.	Multi-user and multi-player: challenge: How can we use information from multiple users/players for one system?

Go for a detailed description and more sub-challenges to our website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/BCIGrandChallenge2012/ 

We invite work on systems which (could) use BCI's as intelligent sensors. Many formats are welcome and authors should feel free to think of their own challenges. 
*	Papers on developed systems: please follow the template styles for a long paper described by ICMI. 
*	Posters or papers proposing an idea: please follow the template styles for a short paper described by ICMI.
*	Demo: please follow the template styles for a short paper described by ICMI and describe your demo. 


Important dates
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2012
Final paper: August 15, 2102
14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: October 22-26, 2012

Organizers
Femke Nijboer, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mannes Poel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Egon L. van den Broek, TNO Technical Sciences
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moore University, United Kingdom

Program committee
Robert Jacobs, Tufts University, USA
Jeremy Hill, Wadsworth Center, USA
Michael Tangerman, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Fabien Lotte, INRIA, France
Thorsten Zander, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Kiel Gilleade, Liverpool John Moore University, United Kingdom

Call for Papers, Demonstrators or Videos
The field of Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) traditionally conceives of BCIs as a controller for interfaces, a device which allows you to "act on" external devices as a form of input control. However, most BCIs do not provide a reliable and efficient means of input control and are difficult to learn and use relative to other available modes. We propose to change the conceptual use of "BCI as an actor" (input control) into "BCI as an intelligent sensor" (monitor). This shift of emphasis promotes the capacity of BCI to represent spontaneous changes in the state of the user in order to induce intelligent adaptation at the interface. This conceptual change gives rise to 4 grand challenges:

1. Integration challenge: How can we integrate user-information from different interactions channels and sensors, including BCI?
2. Interpretation challenge: How can we fuse, but also disentangle and interpret information from the user, the task and the environment? 
3. Representation challenge: How can we best represent the information to the user?
4. Multi-user and multi-player: challenge: How can we use information from multiple users/players for one system?

Go for a detailed description and more sub-challenges to our website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/BCIGrandChallenge2012/ 

We invite work on systems which (could) use BCI's as intelligent sensors. Many formats are welcome and authors should feel free to think of their own challenges. 
*	Papers on developed systems: please follow the template styles for a long paper described by ICMI. 
*	Posters or papers proposing an idea: please follow the template styles for a short paper described by ICMI.
*	Demo: please follow the template styles for a short paper described by ICMI and describe your demo. 

Accepted papers will be included in the ICMI conference proceedings, which will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings. As such the ICMI proceedings will have an ISBN number assigned to it and all papers will have a unique DOI and URL assigned to them. Moreover, all accepted papers will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important dates
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2012
Final paper: August 15, 2102
14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: October 22-26, 2012

Organizers
Femke Nijboer, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mannes Poel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Egon L. van den Broek, TNO Technical Sciences
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moore University, United Kingdom

Program committee
Robert Jacobs, Tufts University, USA
Jeremy Hill, Wadsworth Center, USA
Michael Tangerman, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Fabien Lotte, INRIA, France
Thorsten Zander, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Kiel Gilleade, Liverpool John Moore University, United Kingdom