2nd International Conference on
Non-visual & Multimodal Visualization

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Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Non-visual & Multimodal Visualization takes place in London, UK, at the University of Greenwich on the 4th July 2005
http://www.m2vis.org/.

The conference is associated and co-located with the International Conference on Information Visualization. M2Vis occurs before the IV05 conference.

Paper deadline: 21st March 2005 (extended deadline).

The aim of this symposium is to bring together top practitioners, researchers, developers and users of non-visual and multimodal visualization, and multisensory perception issues of visualization.

Non-visual communication is on the increase. Indeed, information can be presented by sound, touch, or any of our senses: utilizing our ability to perform multisensory perception. Not only are these environments useful for accessibility, but by using different modalities the compound presentation (1) can be more understandable (the additional modality reinforces the former), (2) the diverse modalities may enable information to be perceived in situations where visual display devices cannot be used effectively (such as when using small screens or remote operation) and (3) the user may more easily perceive the information through one sense as opposed to another. Over the last few years, different devices have been designed which allow the user to perceive information through sound (sonification) or by means of tactile, kinesthetic or force-feedback channels. It is also possible to utilize other senses such as smell (olfaction) or taste.

Original papers are solicited in the area of non-visual, multimodal and multisensory visualization. In particular we encourage papers detailing novel devices, formal models, applications and in-depth reviews for visualization. Example topics include, but are not limited to:

• Non-visual visualization
• Dynamic & exploratory non-visual visualization
• Multimodal visualization
• Multisensory perception for visualization
• Force-feedback and haptic visualization, including:
  • kinaesthetic, tactile or force-feedback devices and applications
  • temperature-based visualization
• Sonification/Auralization, including:
  • image sonification,
  • schematic sonification
  • algorithm sonification
  • auralization
  • Earcons
  • High fidelity (realistic) sound rendering in VR
• Visualization by smell (Olfaction) or taste (Gustation)
• Perception issues for multimodal visualization
• Multi-perception VR environments
• Visualization accessibility

Symposium Chairs:

Jonathan C Roberts (University of Kent, UK)
Bowen Loftin (Old Dominion University, VA, USA)
Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre (International Society for Haptics)
Vittorio Scarano (Universita' di Salerno, Italy)

Important Dates.

21/03/05 Deadline for paper submission
30/04/05 Camera-ready paper due
4/07/05 Symposium

Submission Instructions

All submissions are to be made electronically in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) or PS.

All submissions should be formatted correctly according to the style guidelines (http://www.m2vis.org/2005/guides.shtml) and should submit, as per the submission instructions on the web, to Jonathan Roberts (j.c.roberts@kent.ac.uk)

Any enquires can be made to: Jonathan C. Roberts (J.C.Roberts@kent.ac.uk)