[iva] [CFP] Workshop at ICMI2024: Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction

[Maurizio Mancini]

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CoFI Workshop @ICMI2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality
and Human-Food Interaction


November 4 - 8, 2024

co-located with ICMI 2024 (https://icmi.acm.org/2024/) - San José, Costa
Rica

Website: https://cofi2024.github.io/

Submissions:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024

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HIGHLIGHTS
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- DEADLINE: May 27th, 2024
- ACM Proceedings

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ABSTRACT
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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.

 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.


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TOPICS
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Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

•            Multimodal interaction in commensal setting

•            Commensal activity recognition

•            Cultural aspects of commensality

•            Artificial agents (social robots, virtual companions) in
commensality setting

•            Interactive technology for sustainable.  healthy eating and
well-being

•            Tele- and remote dining

•            Food and eating as playful experience

•            Commensality and food interaction in digital (VR/AR) spaces

•            Critical human-food interaction design and research

•            Food, interactive tech, and sustainability

•            Multimodal food perception

•            Tracking edible objects

•            Designing cross-cultural food and commensal interactions

•            Sensory augmentation for novel eating experience

•            Gamification in Human-Food Interaction (HFI) and commensality

•            Personalizing eating experiences

•            Eating as a multisensory experience

•            Computational models of commensals interaction

•            Commensality and Food in Social Media

•            Social AI and commensal practices


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SUBMISSIONS
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We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel
methodologies to build creative systems and algorithms for commensality and
HFI. 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.  In particular, authors can submit:

(A) Long papers (max. 7 pages + references – ACM format);

(B) Short/Position/Discussion papers (max 4 pages + references – ACM
format);

Submission Site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024

ACM formats: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions


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.


At least one of the authors should register and take part at the workshop
to make the presentation.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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*Paper submission (long and short): May 27, 2024

*Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2024

*Camera-ready version: July 12, 2024

*Workshop date: November 4 or 8, 2024


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PROCEEDINGS
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All accepted papers will be published in the ACM companion proceedings of
ICMI2024.


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ORGANIZATORS
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Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Escola Universitària ERAM

Christopher Dawes, University College London

Marianna Obrist, University College London

Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome
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