Eye gaze serves multiple functions in human-human communication. The
speaker may use gaze to reference an object in the environment, or to
indicate attention to the listener, and or to manage who has the floor,
among other functions.

Researchers have long been interested in the role of eye gaze in human
machine interaction. It has been used as a pointing mechanism in direct
manipulation interfaces, for example, to assist users with “locked-in
syndrome”. It has also been used to reflect information needs in web
search and tailor information presentation. Based on joint attention
indicated by eye gaze, it has been used as a facilitator in computer
supported human-human communication. In conversational interfaces, eye
gaze has been used to improve language understanding and intention
recognition. It has also been incorporated in multimodal behavior of
embodied conversational agents. Recent work on human robot interaction
has further explored eye gaze in incremental language processing, visual
scene processing, and conversation engagement and grounding. Given the
recent advances in eye tracking technology and the availability of
non-intrusive and high performance eye tracking devices, there has never
been a better time to explore new opportunities to incorporate eye gaze
in intelligent and natural human machine communication.

This workshop intends to bring researchers from academia and industry
together to share recent advances and discuss research directions and
opportunities for next generation of human machine interaction that
incorporate eye gaze. We invite submissions of research papers and
position papers that address the following areas (but not limited to):

• Empirical studies of eye gaze in human-human communication which have
  implications in human machine communication. Examples include new
  empirical findings of eye gaze in human language processing, in human
  vision processing, and in conversation management.
• Algorithms and systems that incorporate eye gaze for human computer
  interaction and human robot interaction. Examples include gaze-based
  feedback to information systems, gaze-based attention modeling,
  incorporating gaze for automated language processing, controlling gaze
  behavior for embodied conversation agents or robots to enable grounding,
  turn-taking, and engagement.
• Applications that demonstrate the value of incorporating eye gaze in
  practical systems to enable intelligent human machine communication

Submission Guidelines

There are three categories of paper submissions.
Long paper: a maximum of 8 pages in the two-column SIGCHI conference
format.
Short paper: a maximum of 4 pages.
Position paper and project notes: a maximum of 2 pages.

All submissions should be prepared according to the standard SIGCHI
publications format. For your convenience, we provide paper templates in
Microsoft Word and LaTeX:
- Microsoft Word document template
- LaTeX class file
Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.
The accepted papers will be distributed during the workshop. We plan to
publish revised versions of selected papers in Springer's LNCS series.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: November 13, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: December 7, 2009
Final Version for Distribution at Workshop: January 8, 2010
Workshop: February 7, 2010
Final Version for publication: TBA

IUI Deadlines:
Paper Submission: Sept. 25, 2009, (Abstracts Sept. 21, 2009)

Workshop Organizers:

Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Germany
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA

Program Committee

- Donna Byron (Northeastern University, USA)
- Justine Cassell (Northwestern University, USA)
- Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Neil Cooke (University of Birminghan, UK)
- Andrew Duchowski (Clemson University, USA)
- Fernanda Ferreira (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Louis-Philippe Morency (University of Southern California, USA)
- Yukiko Nakano (Seikei University, Japan)
- Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Helmut Prendinger (NII, Japan)
- Kari-Jouko Raiha (University of Tampere, Finland)
- Candy Sidner (BAE Systems AIT, USA)
- Songhua Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
- Tohru Yagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Mike Yao (City University of Hong Kong, China)

For more information, see http://www.iuiconf.org/10workshops.html#workshop6