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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:14px;">The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada. ACM ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:14px;">We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria used during ICMI 2021 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted papers at ICMI 2021 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:14px;">- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children's interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:14px;">- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated with new usages of an existing approach.</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:14px;">This year's conference theme: In the past years and specially 2020, the questions of Behavioral Health and Virtual Connectivity have become central to our life. In particular, COVID-19 has disrupted our normal social life and interactions at work, bringing challenges but also opportunities to improve our team sociability and productivity. This situation calls for multimodal systems to enhance social and emotional remote interaction as well as to increase productivity during remote collaboration. Our behavioral health has been severely impacted the past months. The needs for non-intrusive sensing technology, smart environments (e.g., elderly home monitoring), wearable and assistive devices for rehabilitation, well-being and ageing population and multimodal interfaces to support behavioral changes have become a crucial necessity. As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Behavioral Health and Virtual Connectivity.</span>
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