Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Human-centered multimedia

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st ACM International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM 2006).Human-Centered Computing (HCC) lies at the crossroads of multiple disciplines and research areas that are concerned both with understanding human beings and with the design of computational methods. Researchers and designers of HCC methods and systems include engineers, scholars in psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and graphic designers, among others. Research in HCC deals with understanding humans, both as individuals and in social groups, by focusing on the ways that human beings adopt, adapt, and organize their lives around computational technologies, and on how the development of computational technologies can be informed by human aspects (culture, social setting, human abilities, etc.). The focus in HCC is on the design of algorithms and systems with a human focus from start to finishThis multidisciplinary workshop focused on the multimedia aspects of HCC, particularly on discussing theoretical frameworks, technical approaches and applications, challenges, research opportunities, and open issues in three areas: multimedia interaction, content analysis, and content production. One of the goals of the workshop is to explore HCM and the radical ways in which it can revolutionize computing. Authors who submitted work to the workshop, as well as invited speakers, were encouraged (but not required) to consider the following questions in preparing their contributions: What is Human-Centered Computing (HCC) and why is it important? What are the main characteristics that make an interaction, analysis, or production system human-centered and how does it differ from a non-HC system? What role does play in HCC? What is your general assessment of the state of the art of interaction, analysis, or production with respect to HCC? What is different in HCC compared to existing fields, including HCI, ubiquitous computing, signal processing, computer vision, etc.? What is missing in HCC and what are the most important challenges to advance the state of the art? Are these technical, theoretical, or other? What is the role that multimedia plays in HCC? Is all multimedia Human-Centered? The call for papers attracted 34 submissions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The program committee accepted 13 papers that cover a variety of topics, including a context-sensitive music player, a tool for community annotation and remix of videos, human-centered driver assistance, human-centered document interaction, and others. In addition, the program included invited presentations by Barbara Barry (MIT, USA), Ahmed Elgammal (Rutgers University, USA), Paulo Barthelmess (Natural Interaction, USA), and Nahum Gershon (MITRE Corporation, USA)