Introduction

After the success of VisHCI2006 and the feedback we have received from participants, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI will happen again in 2007! VisHCI2007 will be held in conjunction with DICTA 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia. To maximise the opportunities for scholarly exchange, this year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day on Sunday, 2 December 2007, which is just before the HCSNet SummerFest'07 (3-7 December 2007, Sydney) and the DICTA conference (3-5 December 2007, Adelaide), so that participants of the workshop can have a choice to attend either of these.

Tutorial Speakers

A total of 4 half-day tutorials will be offered by renowned international and Australian researchers:

• Fang Chen (NICTA),
• David Cristinacce (U Manchester, UK), and
• Edwin Hancock (U York, UK).

Further details on these tutorials will be made available via the VisHCI2007 website.

Audience

The VisHCI2007 workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and students from a number of discplines related to using vision and visual evidence in human-computer interaction (HCI). Visual communication - such as hand and body gestures, facial expressions, auditory-visual speech, sign language etc. - is a major communication channel for humans. The availability of low-cost camera technology has led to an increased use of visual evidence in HCI.

One of the aims of HCSNet is to foster collaborations across discplines. Visual HCI research is multi-disciplinary and both computer vision and HCI research have a strong tradition in Australia. Relevant disciplines include computer science, engineering, IT, psychology and spoken language research to name a few. Our goal is to provide an Australian-based, international forum for the presentation and discussion of current trends and recent ideas and results from leading national and international scientists to foster scholarly exchange and future collaborations in the human communication sciences.

We welcome people from academia and industry with interest in any area related to the use of vision in HCI, including but not limited to the following:

• Hand and body gestures
• Human motion and pose recognition
• Visual object tracking (e.g. face, body, hands)
• Facial expression analysis and recognition
• Face recognition
• Affective computing
• Vision beyond the visible spectrum (e.g. temperature maps of bodyand face, bloodflow estimation)
• Non-rigid object structure recovery (e.g. structure from motion for hand and face shapes, active shape models, active appearance models)
• Auditory-visual speech processing
• Vision processing in human factors analysis
• Event detection and recognition
• Visual interface design
• Multimodal interfaces and integration
• Perceptual user interfaces
• Sign language analysis and recognition
• Behaviour analysis
• User and context modelling
• Applications (e.g. person authentication, user monitoring, driver assistance technology, AV automatic speech recognition, meeting room technology)
• Data corpora of visual HCI events

Registration

Thanks to the generous support from HCSNet, registration for VisHCI 2007 will again be free. However, we ask prospective participants to register via the VisHCI2007 website for catering and planning purposes.

Paper Submission

As this year's VisHCI workshop will be held as a Tutorial Day in conjunction with DICTA 2007, prospective participants are kindly invited to submit papers relevant to VisHCI to the DICTA conference, if they wish to do so. Submitted papers will undergo the same review process as any other paper submitted to DICTA and accepted papers will be published in the DICTA conference proceedings. There will be no separate proceedings for VisHCI2007.

Venue

The VisHCI2007 workshop will be held at the Stamford Grand Adelaide Hotel in Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide.