Dear EG community, the deadline for Smart Graphics 2006 is this coming friday. This year's symposium will be held back to back with CogSci 2006 and WCCI 2006 in order to spare your travel budgets, so please consider us in your publication plans and in your travel schedule ;-) SG06: 6th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg06 July 23-25 2006 Vancouver Canada Graphics become Smart Graphics when their design and implementation are grounded in an understanding of human abilities, activities, and motivations from design experience and the broad spectrum of cognitive and social sciences. When knowledge from these diverse fields is combined with new methods, tools and techniques in AI, HCI and computer graphics, environments are created that (1) engage the user and are esthetically satisfying; (2) participate in human cognition as external or distributed representations; (3) are sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available informational and computational resources; and (4) adapt the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction devices. The International Symposium on Smart Graphics brings together people from the fields of Cognitive Science, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Graphics Design to build this new and emerging area of study. A growing interest in visual analytics and interaction science on the part of applications developers and granting agencies has led us to co-locate this years conference with the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society and the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence. SG06 welcomes submissions from computer graphics, HCI & AI researchers and practitioners, cognitive scientists, artists and graphic designers interested in a theoretically motivated interdisciplinary approach to the design of interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays. It is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer LNCS series, as in the previous years. For a full description of the scope of the Symposium, and details of previous events see the website: http://www.smartgraphics.org Contact: Brian Fisher (fisher(a)cs.ubc.ca) Submission Categories: Full papers Posters System demonstrations and artwork Important Dates: March 24, 2006 (submission deadline) April 14, 2006 (notification of results) April 28, 2006 (camera ready copy due) July 23-25 (Symposium) (between the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence, July 16-21 and the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 26-29, both in Vancouver) ORGANIZERS: Andreas Butz (University of Munich, Germany) Brian Fisher (University of British Columbia, Canada) Antonio Krueger (Universitzy of Muenster, Germany) Patrick Olivier (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) COMMITEE: Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg) William Bares (Millsaps College) Marc Cavazza (Teeside University) Marc Christie (Université de Nantes) Sarah Diamond (Ontario College of Art and Design) Steven Feiner (Columbia University) Sid Fels (University of British Columbia) Knut Hartmann (University of Magdeburg) Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab) Shigeru Owada (University of Tokyo) W. Bradford Paley (Digital Image Design) Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg) Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg)) Stefan Schlechtweg (University of Magdeburg) Lucia Terrenghi (University of Munich) Sha Xinwei (Concordia University) Massimo Zancanaro (ITC-irst Trento) Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) -- Patrick Olivier Informatics Research Institute University of Newcastle Upon Tyne http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/p.l.olivier/ --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request@listserv.acm.org For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------