ICMI-MLMI

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004) held 14-15 October 2004 and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI. This conference reflects a decision made last year by the ICMI Advisory Board to organize a regular annual conference to cater to the growing interest in this emerging multidisciplinary area. This is also the first time that the conference is not co-located with another related meeting.

The ICMI 2004 program consists of two days of intense activities with oral paper presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, doctoral student posters, industry exhibits, one panel and two invited speakers. This proceeding includes the papers selected for oral and poster presentations at the conference. It also contains the abstracts of demonstrations and Doctoral Student Highlights.

There were more than 120 total submissions in all the above categories and with 85 full papers that were reviewed. The review process involved a blind-review involving a minimum of three reviewers for each paper from the program committee, which consisted of 60 leading researchers in different topics related to multimodal interfaces. The final paper selection was done at a meeting of the area chairs and program chairs. The demonstrations were selected by the Demo chair and the Doctoral Student Highlights were selected by a general chair. This process led to the selection of 21 papers for oral presentation, 22 papers for poster presentation, 11 submissions for demonstration and 14 submissions for doctoral student posters.

The conference also features a panel discussion on Multimodal Interfaces Infrastructure led by Vincent Stanford of NIST. There are two invited keynote addresses; Jim Glass of MIT speaking on Towards Conversation Interaction and Susan Goldin-Meadow of University of Chicago presenting on How our Hands Help us Think.