[ecrea] AltMM2018- Multimedia Alternate Realities Workshop

*Call for Paper**s*
*AltMM 2018 | Multimedia Alternate Realities***
/International Workshop held at ACM Multimedia 2018 - October 22-26, 
2018, Seoul, Kore//a/
Multimedia experiences allow us to access other worlds, to live other 
people's stories, to communicate with or experience alternate realities. 
Different spaces, times or situations can be entered thanks to 
multimedia contents and systems, which coexist with our current reality, 
and are sometimes so vivid and engaging that we feel we are living in 
them. Advances in multimedia are making it possible to create immersive 
experiences that may involve the user in a different or augmented world, 
as an alternate reality.
The 3rd edition of AltMM workshop aims at exploring how the synergy 
between multimedia technologies can foster the creation of /alternate 
realitie//s/ and make their access an enriching and valuable experience. 
We seek contributions that present multimedia technologies, methods and 
measurement approaches from the perspective of “enabling other realities”.
In particular, prospective contributions must address one or more of the 
following *dimensions***when characterizing the type of multimedia 
alternate reality that they are aiming for:

  * *Alternat**e* ‐ refers to what is alternate about it: different
    space, time, situation, and so on;
  * *Virtual/Augmented***‐ how far or close to the actual reality
    content can be experienced, ranging from totally virtual to
    augmented reality (VR/AR);
  * *Real/Fictiona**l* ‐ how real or fictional the content is;
  * *Interactive***‐ the level of interactivity as a means of engagement
    and immersion;
  * *Immersiv**e* ‐ level in perceptual, cognitive and emotional terms,
    the sense of presence and belonging, the quality of the content and
    the experience, imagination and engagement;
  * *Multisensoria**l* ‐ the media involved and how much mulsemedia it
    is, also going beyond audiovisual content to include the five senses;
  * *Personal***‐ adaptation to individual preferences and contexts;
  * *Social***‐ individualized vs shared experiences and communication.

Contributions should aim at  enabling alternate realities experiences 
through multimedia technologies, design and evaluation methods for their 
creation and consumption. This involves the use of different types of 
media content (audiovisual, haptics, smell, and taste), increased 
immersion (e.g., 3D, holographic, UHD, 360°, and stereoscopic audio), 
new interaction devices, environments, modalities, and formats.
*Topic**s* of interest include but are not limited to:
*Creation and Consumption of Alternate Realitie**s*

  * capturing and sensing
  * content production and authoring, interactive storytelling, digital
    narratives, cinema and TV
  * crowdsourcing and co‐creation
  * delivery, rendering, and consumption paradigms, co‐experience and
    communication
  * personalization, post‐processing, enhancement and real‐time adaptation

*Design and Evaluation of Alternate Realities Experienc**e*

  * assessment and prediction of engagement, immersion and flow
  * experience evaluation through analysis of quantitative (e.g.
    physiological data, self reports) and qualitative data (e.g.
    observations, in-depth interviews)
  * measurements and metrics to quantify the quality of alternate
    reality experiences
  * field trial reports and user studies

*Alternate Realities Application**s*

  * from more traditional to innovative applications, e.g. based on
    multi‐device and multisensory shared content consumption, in
    asynchronous or live scenarios
  * in domains like personal media, culture, tourism, art, education,
    entertainment, manufacturing, training, health and wellbeing, etc.

The full day workshop program will contain a combination of oral and 
invited keynote presentations, posters and demos, altogether enabling 
interactive scientific sharing and discussion between practitioners and 
researchers. AltMM 2018 welcomes submissions of *full papers***(max 6 
pages), as well as *short papers***(max 4 pages)**that report 
work‐in‐progress, presenting new, unpublished, original research. 
Accompanying demonstrations or videos are very welcome and highly 
appreciated. Papers will be judged on their relevance, novelty, 
scientific and technical content and correctness, and clarity of 
presentation. Guidelines and templates can be found on the website. The 
workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. 
Further, a Special Issue of a top ranked multimedia journal related to 
the workshop series is being planned.
Important Dates:

  * Submission: July 8, 2018
  * Notification: August 5, 2018
  * Camera Ready: August 17, 2018
  * Workshop: October 22 or 26, 2018

Workshop website: _http://altmm2018.di.fc.ul.pt__/_ 
<http://altmm2018.di.fc.ul.pt/>
Conference website: _http://www.acmmm.org/2018__/_ 
<http://www.acmmm.org/2018/>
Workshop chairs:

  * Teresa Chambel, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de
    Lisboa, Portugal
  * Francesca De Simone, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the
    Netherlands
  * Rene Kaiser, Know-Center - Research Center for Data-Driven Business
    and Big Data Analytics, Austria
  * Nimesha Ranasinghe, School of Computing and Information Science,
    University of Maine, ME, USA
  * Wendy Van den Broeck, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium


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