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From: Sherry Chen <Sherry.Chen@BRUNEL.AC.UK> Date: November 18, 2004 9:18:59 AM EST To: WEB-RESEARCH-UK@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: 2nd CFP: Digital Multimedia Perception and Design Reply-To: Web Research UK <WEB-RESEARCH-UK@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

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Digital Multimedia Perception and Design

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A book edited by Dr. George Ghinea and Dr. Sherry Y. Chen, Brunel University, UK Introduction Multimedia is an interdisciplinary, application-oriented technology that capitalises on the multi-sensory nature of humans and the ability of computers to store, manipulate and convey non-numerical information such as video, graphics, and audio in addition to numerical and textual information. Multimedia has the intrinsic goal of improving the effectiveness of computer-to-human interaction and, ultimately, of human-to-human communication.

Whilst the HCI community looks predominantly at the application layer and the telecommunications community at the lower end of the ISO OSI stack, little work has been published in bridging the gap between these two communities. Indeed, the human element is often neglected in Quality of Service negotiation protocols. Not only does this have a negative and undesirable impact on the user> '> s experience of multimedia, it also discards the potential for more economical resource allocation strategies. With the proliferation of ubiquitous multimedia in predominantly bandwidth-constrained environments, more research is needed towards integrating and mapping perceptual considerations across the protocol stack and building truly end-to-end multimedia communication solutions.

The Overall Objective of the Book The proposed book aims to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art in the area of perception-based multimedia design, covering both theories and applications in areas such as virtual reality, multi-sensory based computing, ubiquitous communications, personalization and adaptation according to user perceptual needs. The book will cover many issues in the field, providing insight into analytical and architectural aspects of perception-based multimedia systems, as well as applications in real world settings.

The Target Audience The book will be useful to professionals and academic researchers working in various areas, such as multimedia telecommunications, web-based technologies, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, content infrastructure, customisation and personalization. Moreover, it will provide a source of reference and a guide for students working on relevant projects.

Topics of interest may focus on, but are not restricted to: * The influence of task, context and device on perceived multimedia quality * Perceptual and emotional impact of varying multimedia quality * Integrating haptics and olfaction in multimedia systems * Physiological and visual monitoring of human indicators in multimedia systems * The impact of cognitive styles and strategies on multimedia perception * Perceptual requirements of virtual reality systems * Adaptation and Personalisation of multimedia content according to perceptual needs * Perceptual multimedia communications in ubiquitous environments * End-to-end communication architectures incorporating perceptual requirements

Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to send on or before January 3, 2005, a completed author form with a 600-800 word manuscript proposal organized in sections as follows: aim, main methodology, results, and significance of the contribution. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 17, 2005 about the status of their proposals and be sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 14, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the > "> Idea Group Publishing,> ">

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"> Information Science Publishing,> "> and > "> IRM Press> "> imprints. Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded > electronically (MS-Word document format or RTF) to the editors.

Editors of the book

Dr. George Ghinea School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, U.K. Email: George.Ghinea@brunel.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1895 266033 URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstggg2/

Dr. Sherry Y. Chen School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK Email: Sherry.Chen@brunel.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1895 266023 URL: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstsyc/

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