The Smart Graphics Experience
The International Symposium on Smart Graphics will bring together researchers from Computer Graphics, Visualization, Art & Graphics Design, Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, all working on different aspects of computer-generated graphics and the user experiences they enable. This year's meeting will be held in Chengdu, China.
Advances in computer graphics have made visual media the heart of the user interface, and it is clear that graphics will play a dominant role in knowledge work, entertainment, and the home. Indeed, as computers become more and more pervasive, and display sizes both increase and decrease, new and challenging problems arise for the effective use and generation of computer graphics.
Scope
Smart Graphics is grounded in a deep understanding of human abilities, activities, and desires. This understanding arises through the integration of fields such as art, design, and the social, cognitive, and perceptual sciences. Insights are realized in the form of novel methods for producing and interacting with rich graphical displays often utilizing established techniques from Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science in general.
Such interfaces present content that:
- engages the user and is aesthetically satisfying
- participates in human cognition as external or distributed representations
- is sensitive to the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the available computational resources and
- adapts the form of the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the nature of the presentation media and available interaction devices.
Smart Graphics research can be loosely divided into principles, methods and systems based research, and the symposium will encourage submissions in all these areas, based on the following characterization:
- Principles: Principles of Smart Graphics include: theories of graphics design and visual aesthetics, and theories of graphical representations and interaction, design and testing of graphical systems, constraints on technological, computational and human (perceptual, cognitive and motor) resources, conceptualizations of graphics and interactive systems, representation and reasoning requirements for Smart Graphics, interaction between resource restrictions, design, requirements capture and evaluation methodologies, systems that make people smart.
- Methods: New approaches to the design and testing of graphical generation, presentation and interaction for both conventional desk-top systems and new devices and media, acquisition and representation of design knowledge for Smart Graphics generation, empirical methods in the characterization of interaction, dealing with heterogeneous target media, application of planning, decision theory, optimization, constraint satisfaction, machine learning and other AI techniques to Smart Graphics, attentive systems, evaluation methods.
- Systems: The application of Smart Graphics to visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile communications, wearable computing, graphical hypermedia, web-based systems, novel interaction techniques (e.g. attentive systems, haptic and natural language interaction), and advisory & tutoring systems.
SG15 welcomes submissions from computer graphics, HCI & AI researchers and practitioners, applied philosophers, cognitive scientists, artists and graphic designers.
Committee
Steering Committee
- Pierre Boulanger (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Roberto Theron (University of Salamanca, Spain)
- Tsai-yen Li (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
- Marc Christie (INRIA/University of Rennes 1, France)
Organizing Committee
- Marc Christie (INRIA/University of Rennes 1, France)
- Yaxi Chen (Southwest University for Nationalities, China)
Program Committee
- Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- William Bares (College of Charleston, USA)
- Andreas Butz(University of Munich, Germany)
- Lutz Dickmann (University of Bremen, Germany)
- David S. Ebert (Purdue University, USA)
- Tracy Hammond (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Hiroshi Hosobe (Tokyo National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Hung-Hsuan Huang (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
- Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
- Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa, Israel)
- Tong-Yee Lee (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
- Wen-Hung Liao (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
- Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California at Davis, USA)
- Carlos Delgado-Mata (Universidad Panamericana campus Bonaterra, Spain)
- Shigeru Owada (Sony CSL)
- Jian Peng (Sichuan University, China)
- Roberto Ranon (University of Udine, Italy)
- Mateu Sbert (University of Girona, Spain)
- Tevfik Metin Sezgin (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Shigeo Takahashi (University of Aizu, Japan)
- Wenrong Tan (Southwest University for Nationalities, China)
- Peng Wang (Chengdu University of Information Tchnology, China)
- Xiaojing Wang (Chengdu Information Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences Co., Ltd., China)
- Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Venue
Chengdu
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Airport transportation
SG’15 will be held at Southwest University for Nationalities (SWUN Wuhou campus).
Address: 西南民族大学武侯校区 四川省成都市一环路南四段16号（610041）
No. 16, South Sec. 4, First Ring Road, Chengdu (610041)
The shuangliu international airport (CTU) is located in the Shuangliu county. Taxi is the easiest transportation from CTU to SWUN Wuhou campus. The fare is about 60 RMB and takes around 30 minutes to get to downtown Chengdu.
You may also take airport shuttle bus to go to Minshan hotel. From there you can take taxi or buses to SWUN or your hotel.
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Places to See
As one of the most popular tourism cities in China, Chengdu enjoys rich cultural heritages and beautiful scenic sights.
Kuan and Zhai Alley (宽窄巷子) / Jin Li (锦里): traditional architectures, Sichuan Opera, tea houses.
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (大熊猫繁育研究基地): well-known institution for the preservation of endangered wildlife, integrating scientific research and breeding of giant pandas, conservation education, tourism education, and panda cultural events.
Museums: Sichuan Meseum (四川博物院), Jinsha Site Museum (金沙遗址博物馆), Sanxingdui Museum (三星堆博物馆).
Emei Mountain (峨眉山) and Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛): included in the UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage, Emei Mountain is known as one of the China’s four major Buddhist mountains, and the Giant Buddha is the biggest seated maitreya in the world.
Dujiangyan (都江堰) and Qingcheng Mountain(青城山): Dujiangyan is a water control and irrigation dam that was build more than 2000 years ago and is still in function nowadays. Located 10 kilometers away from Dujiangyan, Qingcheng Mountain was one of the birthplaces of Chinese Taoism.
Jiuzhaigou National Park(九寨沟): known for its multi-level waterfalls and colorful lakes, and was declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site in 1992.
Food
Chengdu cuisine includes various snacks which are called “xiaochi” in Chinese.
Due to the humidity here, the predominant ingredient is chili and the most representative food is Hotpot, basically a big pot of boiling oil, water and spices. Patrons choose from a big variety of food and boil them in the pot. Besides hotpot, there are other famous Sichuan dishes such as Kongpao checken (宫保鸡丁), spiced doufu with chili (麻婆豆腐), two-time cooked pork (回锅肉) and fish-flavored pork slices (鱼香肉丝), etc..
Program
| Aug. 26 (Wen.) | Aug. 27 (Thu.) | Aug. 28 (Fri.) | |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Registration (Admimistration building 311) |
Session C (Lab1-100) |
Social Events (Meeting point: shuttle bus stop near to the Southern Gate at 7:30AM) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Opening (Admimistration building 311) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Keynote Speech 1 (Admimistration building 311) |
Keynote Speech 2 (Lab1-100) |
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| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch (Wenhan Hotel) |
Lunch (Wenhan Hotel) |
Lunch + Ending (Restaurant Off-campus) |
| 14:00-16:00 | Session A (Lab1-100) |
Session D (Lab1-100) |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Break | Break | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Session B (Lab1-100) |
Poster and Demo Session (Lab1-100) |
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| 17:30-18:30 | Your afternoon activities | Visit University Museum | |
| 18:30-21:00 | Welcome Reception (Wenhan Hotel) |
Award Announcement (Wenhan Hotel) |
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| Dinner (Wenhan Hotel) |
Keynote Speach 1
Dr. Xiang Cao is the founder and CEO of Xiaoxiaoniu Creative Technologies. It aims to provide playful experiences and technologies for everyone , especially children, unleashing their full imagination in the context of entertainment and education.
Before founding Xiaoxiaoniu, Dr. Cao worked for many years in industrial research labs. He has been a director and senior research staff member at Lenovo Research & Technology. Prior to that, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and later in its Beijing lab. He has also worked and interned at Siemens, IBM, and Intel, as well as being a fellow at Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Cao's research work spanned several areas in HCI, most notably novel interaction technologies & devices and digital tools to support creativity, and also computer-supported cooperative activities and user performance modeling. He received his PhD at University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan.
Among other professional services (e.g. program committees for ACM CHI 2011~2015, ACM UIST 2012 and 2015, ACM UbiComp 2014, editorial board of Springer HCI book series), he serves as the vice chair of the China Chapter of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI), working towards promoting HCI research in China and its connection with the international HCI community.
Keynote Speach 2
Shigeo Takahashi is currently a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Aizu, Japan. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tokyo in 1992, 1994, and 1997, respectively. His research interests include scientific and information visualization, visual perception modeling, geographical information systems, and geometric modeling.
He served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014), served and is serving as a program co-chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (2014, 2015) and International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (2015). He also served as a program committee member for more than 50 computer visualization and graphics conferences. He received the Most Cited Paper Award for Graphical Models (2004-2006) from Elsevier.
Session A: Graphics
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Session B: Sketching and visualization
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Session C: Automation and evluation
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Session D: Image processing
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Session E: Poster and demo session
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University Map
Submission
Call for Papers
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Smart Graphics 2015 welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners, as well as graphic artists and graphic designers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the design of smart interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays.
We specially encourage young researchers to submit their ideas and results. Special prizes will be awarded to the best paper and the best students paper.
In 2015, we propose a specific emphasis on the integration of scientific research into the design of intelligent, interactive, and context-aware digital media applications. In particular, we encourage discussion of research that pertains to interactions within the everyday world, using smart graphics and responsive media to enrich and augment experiences, culture, leisure, and work.
Full research papers:
These will encompass comprehensive descriptions of original work within the scope of the symposium (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format).
Short research papers:
Some of the submitted research papers may be accepted as a short paper, which is limited to 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format.
Posters:
Tentative or preliminary results of research or design work with emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of the ideas (limited to 4 pages in Springer LNCS format). Poster papers will be included in the proceedings.
System demonstrations:
Short descriptions of research or design work that the authors intend to show and discuss in a demo session at the symposium (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format). System demonstration papers will be included in the proceedings.
Arts track:
Computer animations, multimedia performances, interactive art and design, etc. Artists must submit a three page proposal outlining the concept and technique of their work, including a discussion of the relationship between smart technologies and their artistic and creative practice.
An international jury of renowned scientists and artists will select the submissions. Selected works will be displayed during the Smart Graphics symposium, and presented to the public via an evening of performance, installation, and gallery exhibition at the symposium venue. A report of the arts track including all the selected works will be included in the proceedings.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
- computer graphics
- artificial intelligence
- cognitive science
- scene perception
- graphical abstraction
- graphics design
- virtual and mixed reality
- entertainment computing
- computational aesthetics
- information visualization
- visual analytics
- multimodal interfaces
- context-aware interfaces
- non-desktop interfaces
- surface computing
- sketch-based interfaces
- interaction design/user experience / User Interaction
- interactive narratives
- human-computer interaction
- interaction science
- user studies
- technological art
Authors' Instructions
As in previous years, proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Therefore, submissions are expected in the Springer LNCS format. You will find instructions for the preparation of your papers at Springer’s Authors’ Instructions page.
Important Dates
- Submission due: May 30, 2015 (new!)
- Notification: June 30, 2015 (new!)
- Camera-reday copy due: July 10, 2015 (new!)
- Symposium: August 26-28, 2015
Submission Site
Smart Graphics 2015 submissions are handled via EasyChair. Please submit your paper to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sg2015 . Supplementary files such as video or audio can be sent to smartgraphics2015@hotmail.com.
Registration
We offer two different ways of registration for international and participants from China mainland respectively.
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For international participants: Registration can be done via PayPal. The authors of each accepted paper will receive a transfer instruction email from us. If you don’t receive the email, please consult us.
Note: Since we receive ONLY US dollars please make sure you choose USD in PayPal transfer page.
With a successful PayPal transfer, please email us (smartgraphics2015@hotmail.com) the registration form 1(renamed as Registration-form1-[paper-number]-[name]). Please bring a printout of your Paypal Receipt to the symposium, in case any unclarities arise.
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Domestic participants are required to make a bank transfer to the following account and email us (smartgraphics2015@hotmail.com) the rregistration form 2( (renamed as Registration-form2-[paper-number]-[name]).
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Registration fee:
| Full | Student | |
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| Early Bird (before July 15) | USD$350 (CNY ￥2100) | USD$300 (CNY ￥1800) |
| Regular | USD$400 (CNY ￥2400) | USD$350 (CNY ￥2100) |
Visa
Please refer to the link for visa information.
If you need a formal invitation letter for visa application, please make sure that you fill out the relevant information in the registration form 1.
Accommodation
If you need us book the Wenhan Hotel for you, please fill out the relevant information in the registration form.
Wenhan Hotel: on-campus hotel, Rate: 300RMB/room/night (breakfast not included in this rate but can be booked at the hotel restaurant after your arrival).
Sponsors
Main Organization
SG ’15 is organized, sponsored, and hosted by Southwest University for Nationalities.
Cooperation Partners
The Symposium is held in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Now, SG ‘15 has been approved for in-cooperation with SIGAI, SIGCHI, and SIGGRAPH.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
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