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        <span style="font-family:SimSun;">The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in in Montreal, Canada, October 18-22nd, 2021. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:</span> 
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Media Analytics for Societal Trends</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Multimodal e-Coaches</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Human-Habitat for Health</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Child Computer Interaction</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Insights on Group & Team Dynamics</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Multimodal Interaction for Education</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Akane Sano and Emily Mower Provost (icmi2021-workshop-chairs@acm.org) The proposal should include the following: </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Workshop title</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Tentative list of keynote speakers</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">- Special space and equipment requests, if any</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Important Dates:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 8, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 22, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Workshop papers due: End of July, 2021 (suggested)</span><br>
<span style="font-family:SimSun;">Workshop Date: October 18-22, 2021</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Dongmei Jiang</span> 
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        <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Professor, Head of Dept. Computer Information Engineering,</span> 
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        <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University</span> 
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        <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Xi'an China.</span> 
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        <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Email: jiangdm@nwpu.edu.cn</span> 
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