Eye Tracking Research & Applications

Symposium 2008

26-28 March 2008, Savannah, GA, USA

Call for Participation

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The URL of this document is http://www.e-t-r-a.org/cfp.html.
Questions, suggestions, and/or comments should be directed to Andrew Duchowski (andrewd@e-t-r-a.org).


Motivation

ETRA 2008 will be the fifth bi-ennial symposium in a series focused on all aspects of eye movement research across a wide range of disciplines. The goal of ETRA is to bring together computer scientists, engineers and behavioral scientists in support of a common vision of enhancing eye tracking research and applications.


Symposium Themes

Advances in Eye-Tracking Technology

Eye-tracking systems, software, and algorithms, eye movement analysis techniques and predictive models

Visual Attention and Eye Movement Control

Studies of eye movement guidance during natural stimuli and behaviors, driving, web surfing, usability studies

Eye Tracking Applications

Gaze-contingent displays, attentive user interfaces, human computer interfaces, assistive technologies

Special Theme: Usability and Ubiquity

Eye tracking has become a fairly popular though still expensive option in usability studies. Meanwhile, several approaches have recently been developed for inexpensive do-it-yourself (DIY) eye tracking systems. Webcam-based solutions for course-grained analysis are quite plausible on commonly available systems (e.g., Apples MacBook Pro with built-in iSight). We invite submissions that explore new methodological approaches which demonstrate significant improvement over existing ones. Results from a usability perspective as well as novel strategies for ubiquitous eye tracking deployment are particularly welcome.


Submissions

Two categories of submissions are being sought: Full Papers and Late-Breaking Results.

Full papers must be submitted electronically through the ETRA submission website and conform to the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings category 2 format. Full papers submission can be a maximum length of eight pages. Full papers submissions should be made in double-blind format, hiding authors' names and affiliations and all references to the authors previous work. Accepted papers will be published in the ETRA 2008 proceedings. Authors will present a full talk (20 minutes) at the conference.

Late-Breaking Results must be submitted electronically through the ETRA submission website and conform to the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings category 3 format. Late-Breaking Results submissions can be a maximum length of four pages (but can be as short as a one-page abstract). Given the time constraints of this format, submissions must be made in camera-ready format including authors' names and affiliations. Accepted submissions will be published in the ETRA 2008 proceedings. Authors will present a poster at the conference. The most highly rated submissions will be selected for additional presentation as a short talk (10 minutes) in a Late-Breaking Results session.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Best Paper Awards will be given to the most highly ranked full and Late Breaking Results papers.


Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:
Kari-Jouko Räihä
kari-jouko.raiha@cs.uta.fi
University of Tampere, Finland
Andrew T. Duchowski
andrewd@e-t-r-a.org
Clemson University, USA
 
Program Co-Chairs:
Arnon Amir
arnon@almaden.ibm.com
IBM Research Center, USA
Carlos Morimoto
hitoshi@ime.usp.br
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
Late-Breaking Results Chair:
Derrick Parkhurst
derrick@iastate.edu
Iowa State University, USA
 


Deadlines

Date Item
Nov. 06, 2007 Full paper submission deadline (extended)
Dec. 05, 2007 Full paper acceptance/rejection notice
Dec. 16, 2007 Late-Breaking Results submission deadline
Jan. 07, 2008 Late-Breaking Results acceptance/rejection notice
Jan. 09, 2007 Authors send full/short papers to the ACM proceedings producer:
  1. camera-ready versions of papers in PDF format, and
  2. ACM Copyright Form.


Location

The Symposium will be held at The Savannah Marriott Riverfront in Savannah, GA.