Call for papers
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Workshop on New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Home

In conjunction with the International Symposium on Multimedia 2007
Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
December 10-12, 2007

“New Techniques for Consuming, Managing, and Manipulating Interactive Digital Media at Home” brings 
together researchers and practitioners interested in innovative approaches to consume digital media. 
This topic will be studied from a number of perspectives: social aspects, context awareness, frameworks 
and tools, narrative forms, and document modeling.

The organizing committee invites you to submit original high-quality papers, addressing the topics, 
for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates
Submission deadline					July 20, 2007 
Notification of Acceptance				August 20, 2007		
Camera ready						September 21, 2007
Conference date						December 10-12, 2007

Submission details
Papers should be at most 6-page manuscripts in double-column IEEE format and written in English. 
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the organizing committee. The workshop 
proceedings will be printed by IEEE and indexed in IEEEXplore.

Papers submitted must be original unpublished work and must not be simultaneously submitted or under 
review for any other workshop, conference or journal. Any paper found to be in violation of these rules 
will be rejected without review. (We may share information about submissions with the program committee 
of other conferences considering papers during the review period.) 

Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted as an email attachment (PDF files only) to p.s.cesar@cwi.nl. 
For questions on submissions please contact p.s.cesar@cwi.nl. 

Topics  
We invite innovative contribution in new techniques for consuming, managing, and manipulating digital 
media at home. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to, the following topics: 
- Social Interactive Television
- Context Awareness and Ambient Intelligence
- Multimedia Document Modeling
- Frameworks and Tools that increase the potential impact of the end-user on digital media
- New narrative forms

Workshop webpage
For further information about the workshop, you can visit:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/ism2007_workshop

Journal Publication
The best papers accepted for the workshop might be invited for publication in a Special 
Issue of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications on Interactive 
Digital Television (TOMCCAP Volume 4, Issue 4, November 2008)
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/tomccap2008

Organizing Committee
- Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia)
- Dick Bulterman, CWI, The Netherlands (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dcab/)
- Bhavan Gandhi, Motorola Labs, USA
- Maria de Gracia Campos Pimentel, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Gunnar Harboe, Motorola Labs, USA