welcome
IMX in
Latin America Workshop 2024
Together with ACM Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) 2024
Stockholm, Sweden
June 12th, 2024
About
The 2nd edition of the IMX in Latin America Workshop (IMX-LATAM) will be collocated with ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) (https://imx.acm.org/2024/) in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2024. A core objective of IMX-LATAM 2024 is to increase diversity and broaden the IMX community, in particular, to gather colleagues from Latin America to attend the conference.
The Latin American research community has been very active in topics relevant to IMX, such as interactive media experiences (IMX), multisensory experiences, usability, user experience evaluation, Terrestrial Digital TV, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Integrated Broadcast-Broadband systems (IBB), Over-the-top services (OTT), video quality of experience, interactive robots, smart healthcare applications and beyond.
The workshop aims to attract Latin American experts to the ACM IMX conference, given their common interests in the interactive multimedia area and their connections with researchers from other regions, including some already participating in SIGCHI and SIGMM communities. This will help broaden the scope of IMX to include application areas of interactive media, relevant to developing countries, that might have been overlooked. It is expected that the workshop will bring a program that includes presentations of research papers, position papers and invited speakers.
Previous edition:
IMX-LATAM 2020
Important Dates
Submission
deadline
March 24, 2024
Decision
notification
April 7, 2024
Camera-ready
version
April 28, 2024
Workshop
Date
June 12, 2024
Format
Full-Day Hybrid workshop
Call
for Papers
We invite Latin America (LATAM) researchers and others doing research on interactive media in LATAM to submit papers on topics that include (but are not limited to):
- Services and Applications in Broadcast Digital Television Systems
- Accessibility and Diversity promotion services and applications
- Content personalization, user-generated content, user-centric broadcasting
- Seamless and multisensory experiences
- Smart environments
- Interactive media applications for Healthcare, Education, Arts, Smart Cities, etc.
- Internet of Media Things
- Multimodal user interaction
- Ultra high definition video, scalable video, multi-sourced layers
- Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Extended Reality (XR) systems and applications
- 360º video, free viewpoint video, volumetric video
- Immersive audio and interactivity
- Quality of experience (QoE) and User Experience (UX)
- Interactive and Social Robots
Papers should be submitted through the Easy Chair submission system in the form of a maximum 3,000 words using the New SIGCHI Proceedings Format.
Paper submissions should not be anonymised, and should include name, affiliation, and contact information of all authors.
The paper word count (3,000 words) limit refers to all parts of the document, except for the following:
- The ACM copyright block (found only in the LaTeX template);
- The contents of the section “ACM Reference Format” (found only in the LaTeX template);
- Text included in tables, figures and their captions;
- The reference list; and
- Authors Info.
Please ensure that you use the right templates available from the ACM; a single column format must be used for the reviewing phase. Word authors should use the single column Word Submission Format. In the LaTeX format, use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}. Use of different templates or formats may result in a desk reject.
We highly encourage authors to prepare accessible submissions. Please check out this guide to get more information on how to make your submissions more accessible. If you have any questions, please contact our accessibility chairs at accessibility@imx.acm.org.
The Workshop proceedings will be published at ACM DL.
Submit your Paper
Authorship
Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked in places where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. While we will not be using tools to detect LLM-generated text, we will investigate submissions brought to our attention and will desk-reject papers where LLM use is not clearly marked. We encourage prospective authors to carefully read the SIGCHI blog post on the topic.
Review Process
Your submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner based on originality, creativity, impact, relevance to the topics of IMX LATAM and the quality of presentation. The review process will select papers with the potential to spark discussions and interactions at the workshop.
ACM SIGCHI Travel Grants
IMX-LATAM 2024 is a SIGCHI sponsored event, promoting impact in the comprehensiveness and diversity of the ACM IMX community. The SIGCHI Development Fund provides resources for the SIGCHI community to spur communication, innovation, and expansion of HCI.
Accepted paper presenters are eligible to receive reimbursements from ACM SIGCHI Development Fund for travel and accommodation (up to US$ 1500).
Organizers
IMX-LATAM General Chairs
Debora Christina Muchaluat Saade
UFF, Brazil
Shortbio:
Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Fluminense Federal University (UFF). She holds a Computer Engineer bachelor’s degree (1992), MsC in Computer Science (1996) and PhD in Computer Science (2003) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She was the vice-Dean of the Graduate Program in Computing at UFF from 2017 to 2021 and was the Dean of the Undergraduate Program in Computer Systems Technology from 2014 to 2019. She is currently the vice-coordinator of the Special Committee on Multimedia and the Web (CE-WebMedia) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and was the coordinator of the Special Committee on Computing Applied to Healthcare (CE-CAS) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) from 2017 to 2019. She is a member of the deliberative council and the technical committee of the Brazilian Digital TV Forum. Her research interests are multimedia, mulsemedia, computer networks, wireless networks, smart grids, IoT, interactive digital TV and digital healthcare. She has contributed to the development of NCL (Nested Context Language) and Ginga-NCL, used in the Brazilian Digital TV Standard (ABNT NBR 15606-2) and IPTV services (ITU-T H.761). She is a member of ACM and IEEE. She was General Chair of ACM IMX 2022.
Jesus Favela
CICESE, Mexico
Shortbio:
Jesús Favela is a Professor of Computer Science at CICESE, Mexico, where he leads the Mobile and Ubiquitous Healthcare Laboratory. His research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, Human-Computer Interaction and Medical Informatics. Much of his research efforts have focused on the design and evaluation of ambient computing environments for healthcare, mostly to assist the demanding conditions of hospital work and to support older adults and their caregivers. Dr. Favela holds a BSc from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) and MSc and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and former President of the Mexican Computer Science Society.
Mylene Farias
UnB, Brazil & Texas State University, USA
Shortbio:
Mylene Farias received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, in 1995 and her M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, in 2004 for work in no-reference video quality metrics. Dr. Farias has worked as a research engineer at CPqD (Brazil) in video quality assessment and validation of video quality metrics. She has also worked as an intern for Philips Research Laboratories (The Netherlands) in video quality assessment of sharpness algorithms and for Intel Corporation (Phoenix, USA) developing no-reference video quality metrics. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. Previously, she was an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Brasilia (UnB). She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, in addition to being an Area Editor for Elsevier Signal Processing Image Communication. Dr. Farias is a Senior Member of IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is also a member of ACM. She has served as a member and area chair in technical program committees of several conferences. She has served as a Technical Program Co-Chair for ACM NOSSDAV 2021 and QoMEX 2020 and 2023, and as a co-chair of the ACM MMSys 2022. She was elected as a member of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2021-2023) and of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (2022-2024), both of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is currently a member of the JPEG Pleno Light-Field Working Group and VQEG Immersive Media Group. She is also a member of the TV 3.0 Video Coding Layer Test Laboratories of the Brazilian Digital Television System. Her current interests include video quality metrics, video processing, multimedia signal processing, immersive media, and visual attention.
Keynote Speakers
Monica Tentori
CICESE, Mexico
Shortbio:
Monica Tentori is a full Professor in the Computer Science Department of CICESE where she leads the VeritasResearchLab. Her research interests in ubiquitous computing involve challenges related to AI, sensing and ML, and HCI. Her work has focused primarily on supporting challenges associated to health and urban environments. Her research intersects in ubiquitous computing and HCI. She is the first Latin American woman and the only Mexican who have received the international award Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship’. She is the first woman from Ensenada who received the award of distinguished citizen of the city of Ensenada for her work in technological innovation. She is member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) as level II. She organized for the first time in LATAM the ACM joint conference in Ubicomp and ISWC. She is member of the steering committe of ubiquitous computing for both the ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE chapter, and member of the UC Mexus advisory subcommittee.
Marcelo Ferreira Moreno
UFJF, Brazil
Shortbio:
Prof. Marcelo F. Moreno has served as an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) since 2011, holding a doctorate in Computer Science (2008) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). In 2022/23, he worked as a Visiting Professor/Researcher at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, a joint institution of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Fraunhofer IIS, Germany. He serves as the co-chair of the Task Group on Media Coding in the Focus Group on Metaverse at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). He co-edited ITU-T Recommendation H.761 “NCL and Ginga-NCL” and contributed to various ITU recommendations and technical papers, having chaired different workgroups at ITU-T for 8 years. Since 2015, he has been coordinating the Application Coding Working Group of the Brazilian Digital TV System (SBTVD) Forum. His expertise lies in Computer Networks and Multimedia Systems, focusing on multimedia communication infrastructure, architecture, services, and modeling. Currently, he holds the position of CNPq Technological Development Productivity Fellow (DT-2).
Sponsors
IMX in Latin America workshop is a SIGCHI sponsored event, promoting impact in the comprehensiveness and diversity of the ACM IMX community. The SIGCHI Development Fund provides resources for the SIGCHI community to spur communication, innovation, and expansion of HCI.
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