AH '12 - Final submission deadline 13 January 2012 23:59 PST

Call for Papers AH 2012

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The Third Augmented Human International Conference (AH 2012)
Megève, France, March 8th - 9th, 2012 
http://www.augmented-human.com
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The third Augmented Human (AH) International Conference will be held in Megève on March 8th and 9th 2012 after being in Tokyo last year.

The AH international conference focuses on scientific contributions towards augmenting humans capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. As for AH'10 and AH'11, the proceedings of the conference should be published in theACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series. As the conference venue is an upper-class ski resort with many art fans, a special Augmented Human and Art (AHA) exhibition session open to the public should be organised on March 10th and 11th if enough demonstration and art material are accepted to the conference. The art researchers may choose to put on sale theirart material exhibited during the exhibition session.

Scopes and Interests:The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Augmented and Mixed Reality

Internet of Things
Augmented Sport
Sensors and Hardware
Wearable Computing
Augmented Health
Augmented Well-being
Smart artifacts; Smart Textiles
Augmented Tourism and Games
Ubiquitous Computing
Bionics and Biomechanics
Training/Rehabilitation Technology
ExoskeletonsBrain Computer 
Interface
Augmented Context-Awareness
Augmented Fashion
Augmented Art
Safety, Ethics and Legal Aspects
Security and Privacy


Submission Categories:

There are four paper categories to be published in the ACM digital library according to the ACM format :

1) short paper (4 pages, 15 minutes presentation during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)

2) full paper (8 pages, 30 minutes presentation during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)

3) poster paper (2 pages, poster presented during the AH conference on March 8th and 9th)

4) special demonstration/art material paper (2 pages, demonstration/art material during the public exhibition on March 10th and 11th)

Important Dates:

January 13th 2012 23:59 PST, all papers submission deadline (full, short, poster, demos...)

February 3rd 2012, author notification

February 10th 2012, camera-ready copy and ACM copyright submitted

March 8th and 9th 2012, scientific conference in Megève

March 10th and 11th 2012, potential augmented human and art public exhibition (to be confirmed)

Organizing Committee:

Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Hideki Koike, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University, Japan

Pranav Mistry, MIT, USA

Guillaume Moreau, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

Peter Fröhlich, FTW - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria

Jacques Lefaucheux, JLX3D, France

Masahiko Inami, Keio Media Design, Japan

George Baciu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Ivan Poupyrev, Disney Research, USA

Jean-Louis Vercher, CNRS et Université de la Méditerranée, France

Hartmut Koenitz, University of Georgia, USA

Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Ken Knoespel, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Gabriele Ferri, Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Università di Bologna, Italy

Patrick J. Coppock, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Digdem Sezen, Istanbul University Faculty of Communications, Turkey

Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Istanbul University Faculty of Communications, Turkey

Martin Rieser, Art + Design, DeMontfort University, United Kingdom

Mads Haahr, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Kevin Quennesson, Multimedia Artist, San Francisco, USA

Noam Knoller, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Strzebkowski, FB Informatik und Medien, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Germany

Udi Ben-Arie, Department of Film and TV, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Patrícia Gouveia, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Ido Iurgel, Universidade do Minho/Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Damien Ehrhardt, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France

Karla Felix Navarro, School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Dzmitry Tsetserukou, EIIRIS, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Masaaki FUKUMOTO, NTT DoCoMo Research Labs, Japan

Ken Endo, MIT, USA

Kentaro Fukuchi, Meiji University, Japan

Bogdan Stanciulescu, Mines Paris Tech, France

AH 2011 full information: http://www.augmented-human.com