Dear all,

Please find below the CFP for the ACMMM2009 workshop on Multimedia for
Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2009).

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Call for Papers
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ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop on

Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2009)

October 23, 2009, Beijing, China

*** Submission Deadline *** Monday, June 15, 2009 ***

http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2009/

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Cooking is one of the most fundamental activities of humankind. It is
not only connected with the joy of eating but also deeply affects
various aspects of human life such as health, dietary, culinary art,
entertainment, and human communication. Many people who cook at home
require supports for cooking because it requires experience and
knowledge.
They may also need support for food-logging and menu planning for the
well-being of their family. Needless to say, support for a good and
enjoyable dinner would improve the quality of life. On the other hand,
systematic cooking/eating support for elderly or physically challenged
people is significantly important.

Thanks to modern technology, the basic environment needed for
establishing such a support system at home is becoming rich. Recently,
some home appliances are equipped with various sensing devices and a
computer.
Reflecting this trend, researches on supporting cooking and eating
activities have started individually in many corners of the
world. This workshop aims to provide an opportunity for such research
groups to discover each other, introduce their trials, and discuss how
it should be and where they should go.

The workshop welcomes contributions in, but not limited to, the
following topics:

- Application for cooking and eating support
- Cooking archiving and recognition
- Learning contents creation for cooking
- Analysis of cooking video
- Recipe image/video retrieval
- Analysis and utilization on cooking recipe
- Menu planning, dietary management, and food logging
- Artificial agent for cooking/eating activity
- Sensing of taste/ smell/ texture
- Food communication (human-to-human/ human-to-computer communication)
- Ubiquitous environment and interface in kitchen
- Intelligent home appliance
- Cooking navigation and supporting interface for the dementia and
physically challenged persons
- Multimedia learning contents for dietary
- Multimedia information service for food safety and security

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Paper Submission Guidelines
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Submissions to the workshop should follow the main conference
guidelines. It should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings
style not longer than eight pages, and submitted in the form of PDF
files through http://edas.info/N7739 by the deadline. Once accepted,
at least one author should register to and present at the workshop to
publish the paper.

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Important Dates
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Monday, June 15, 2009 Submission Deadline
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Author Notification
Friday, July 24, 2009 Camera Ready Deadline
Friday, October 23, 2009 Workshop in Beijing

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Organizing Committee
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Michihiko MINOH, Kyoto University, Japan
Mutsuo SANO, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Ichiro IDE, Nagoya University / NII, Japan
Yoko YAMAKATA, NICT, Japan
Takuya FUNATOMI, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenzaburo MIYAWAKI, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan

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Program Committee (tentative)
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Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
Yasushi Nakauchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Motoyuki Ozeki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Hidenori Tsuji, Institute of Information Technology, Japan
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shunichi Yonemura, NTT, Japan

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Contact
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To reach the organizers: cea2009@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
CEA2009 Website:
http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2009/
ACM Multimedia 2009 Website: http://www.acmmm09.org/