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              CoFI Workshop @ICMI2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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              First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology
              for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction</span></p>
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                November 4 - 8, 2024<br>
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                co-located with ICMI 2024 (</span><a href="https://icmi.acm.org/2024/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">https://icmi.acm.org/2024/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">) - </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">San José, Costa Rica<br>
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                Website: </span><a href="https://cofi2024.github.io/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">https://cofi2024.github.io/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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                Submissions:  </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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                HIGHLIGHTS<br>
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                - DEADLINE: May 27th, 2024<br>
                - ACM Proceedings<br>
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                ABSTRACT<br>
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              </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Commensality,
                the act of eating together, offers rich opportunities
                for multisensory and social experiences that can be
                enhanced through technology. Dining involves
                interactions with food, where smells, colors, sounds,
                and textures contribute to a multisensory experience;
                likewise, the table becomes a focal point for social
                interaction, with non verbal cues and conversations
                being indispensable elements of the event. </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> This workshop aims to
                explore how interactive, immersive, and otherwise
                emergent technology can enrich eating experiences. The
                other aim is to build an interdisciplinary community
                around the topics of related to commensality and
                human-food interaction, with special focus on the role
                of multimodal interaction among commensal partners
                sharing food, being humans or artificial dining
                companions (such as social robots). We aim to collect
                novel contributions that explore how technology can
                enhance, facilitate, or make these experiences more
                enjoyable.</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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                TOPICS<br>
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                Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Multimodal interaction in commensal setting</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Commensal activity recognition</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Cultural aspects of commensality</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Artificial agents (social robots, virtual
                companions) in commensality setting</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Interactive technology for sustainable.<span>  </span>healthy eating and
                well-being</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Tele- and remote dining</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Food and eating as playful experience</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Commensality and food interaction in digital
                (VR/AR) spaces</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Critical human-food interaction design and
                research</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Food, interactive tech, and sustainability</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Multimodal food perception</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Tracking edible objects</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Designing cross-cultural food and commensal
                interactions</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Sensory augmentation for novel eating experience</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Gamification in Human-Food Interaction (HFI) and
                commensality</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Personalizing eating experiences</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Eating as a multisensory experience</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Computational models of commensals interaction</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span>Commensality and Food in Social Media</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">•<span>           
                </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Social AI
                and commensal practices</span></p>
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                ============<br>
                SUBMISSIONS<br>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">We
                encourage the submission of original contributions,
                investigating novel methodologies to build creative
                systems and algorithms for commensality and HFI. </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">The call is open for both complete and ongoing
                works, research ideas and the position papers,
                especially interdisciplinary contributions in line with
                the main goals of the workshop. </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>In particular,
                authors can submit:</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">(A)
                Long papers (max. 7 pages + references – ACM format);</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">(B)
                Short/Position/Discussion papers (max 4 pages +
                references – ACM format);</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Submission
                Site </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024</span></a><span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">ACM formats: </span></span><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions</span></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
            <p style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"><br>
                All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two
                members of the program committee, based on originality,
                significance, relevance, and technical quality.
                Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names
                should be included in the submissions. </span></p>
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                At least one of the authors should register and take
                part at the workshop to make the presentation. <br>
              </span></p>
            <p style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> <br>
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                IMPORTANT DATES<br>
                ===============<br>
                *Paper submission (long and short): May 27, 2024</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">*Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2024</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">*Camera-ready version: July 12, 2024</span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">*Workshop date: November 4 or 8, 2024</span></p>
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              </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> ===============<br>
                PROCEEDINGS <br>
                ===============<br>
              </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">All accepted papers will be published in
                the ACM companion proceedings of ICMI2024.</span></p>
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                =============<br>
                ORGANIZATORS<br>
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              </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa
              </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Escola
                Universitària ERAM<span>  </span></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Christopher Dawes, </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">University College London</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Marianna Obrist, </span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">University College London</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of
                Rome</span></p></div></div></div>