We also maintain a community e-mail list, \u201cICMI-MULTIMODAL-ANNOUNCE@listserv.acm.org<\/a>\u201d. This is a moderated, low-volume list, and each post has to have direct relevance to the multimodal community (and the word \u201cmultimodal\u201d should be in the message). To subscribe to this list, please visit this link<\/a><\/p>\n
Aims of the Steering Committee<\/h5>\n
The ACM ICMI Steering Committee (SC for short) is responsible for oversight of the annual ACM ICMI conference and the conference series itself. The committee is composed of elected officers, who work on a voluntary basis.<\/p>\n
The objectives of the SC are to:<\/p>\n
\u25cf Define and shape the ICMI goals and direction and determine the overall strategy and vision for the ICMI conference series;
\u25cf Serve as the focal point for communications between the ICMI Conference General Chairs (GC) and Program Chairs (PC), the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC), and ACM Headquarters staff;
\u25cf Advise on the ICMI conference operations and finances;
\u25cf Support each year’s General Chairs (GC), Program Chairs (PC), and other organization committee members of ICMI by providing advice, giving feedback, and supporting them in their interactions with ACM and the ICMI community;
\u25cf Promote and maintain the ICMI conference as the foremost international venue for researchers and practitioners in multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions;
\u25cf Establish relationships with other related conferences and communities, consider and execute mergers and splits, if needed;
\u25cf Circulate calls and contacts researchers to organize the ICMI Conference, and to select and confirm conference locations and dates;
\u25cf Approve appointments of the main conference chairs including General Chairs (GC), and Program Chairs (TPC); present the chairs to SIGCHI for final approval;
\u25cf Grow and develop the volunteer base to identify future conference chairs, organizing committee members and steering committee members;
\u25cf Provide history and continuity for the conference series;
\u25cf Ensure that ACM and SIGCHI policies which apply to ICMI conferences are correctly applied;
\u25cf Create procedures and policies that apply to the ICMI conference series;
\u25cf Resolve general issues with the ICMI conference series;
\u25cf Support ICMI conferences officers in decision making;
\u25cf Ensure information exchange and mutual awareness with ACM-SIGCHI and other scientific communities and interest groups<\/p>\n
Membership of SC<\/h5>\n
The ICMI Steering Committee shall consist of representatives with interests and experience aligned with ensuring the continued success of the ICMI conference series. The committee will represent the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, including researchers and professionals across the various specialities within multimodal Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Further, the SC aims to represent the diversity of our community, including, but not limited to gender, domain of research, research methodology, geographical location.<\/p>\n
The number of members of SC is currently fixed to 9. Members are elected for three years, with terms that can be extended.
The qualifications to serve on the SC include:<\/p>\n
\u25cf Senior level or significant involvement with prior ICMI Conference Organizing Committees (former ICMI General or Program Chairs can be nominated);
\u25cf Regular attendance at the ICMI conference;
\u25cf Willingness to devote the time needed to attend SC meetings and contribute to its discussions.<\/p>\n
New members are invited by nominations to the SC or via volunteering from past ICMI chairs. If you are interested (and qualify), please contact the current SC Main Chair. The ICMI Executive Committee consists of two members: the Main Chair and either the Chair Elect or the Post-chair. Members of the ICMI Executive Committee will work together on strategies and actions for future growth and impact of the ICMI community. The Chair Elect is the person who will be the next chair. The Chair Elect is invited by the current Main Chair, and is endorsed by a majority vote of the current steering committee members. The term is for one year. The main task of the Chair Elect is to support the Main Chair and advise conference chairs as well as prepare to be the next chair. The Main Chair will be the main point of contact for ACM and SigCHI, including the attendance to the annual meeting by ACM SigCHI. The term is for two years.<\/p>\n After the term of the Main Chair, that person shifts to the Post Chair, whose main task is to support the Main Chair based on her\/his rich experience for conference organization and SIGCHI liaison. The term will be for one year. By the end of the first year of the term, the Main Chair will be in charge of deciding the next Chair Elect.<\/p>\n Any important ICMI-related email communications is led by both members of the Executive Committee, and the SC is regularly updated. The SC members consult and vote on the SC decisions, and support the SC Main Chair, Post Chair, and Chair Elect.<\/p>\n SC Executive Committee responsibilities include:<\/p>\n It is up to the discretion of the Executive Committee members to share responsibilities for these main tasks. The Executive Committee is expected to follow the guidelines written in this regulation document. Any change to the procedures outlined in this document should require a vote by the SC.<\/p>\n SC member elections are regulated as follows:<\/p>\n (1) At or before each SC meeting during (or right after) the ICMI conference, elections will be held for the different roles in the SC if their term has come to an end.<\/p>\n (2) Expiring roles will be made known to the SC at least 3 months prior to the SC meeting associated with the annual ICMI conference. The SC Chair will call for volunteers or nominations for new members. There will be at least three SC meetings per (conference) year: SC members are expected to attend all SC meetings, either physically or virtually. Virtual meeting days will be chosen at each face-to-face meeting and will be scheduled in advance. Non-attendance can lead to termination from the SC. Technology will be in place to support virtual attendance at face-to-face meetings to accommodate extreme circumstances that prevent travel. Meetings will never be video or audio recorded, even if remote meeting technology easily enables recording. The validity of a SC meeting is conditioned upon the participation of the majority of SC members, or five individuals, who are physically copresent or interact using conferencing or communications technology with voting confirmed in writing by email to the SC Chair.<\/p>\n Major outcomes, decisions, and action items from SC meetings will be reported to the SIGCHI Council of Steering Committee Chairs (and by that to the SIGCHI Executive Committee, the Vice President for Conferences). The discussions and information from the general annual CSCC meeting will be reported by the person attending this meeting (SC Chair or substitute) to the SC. Decisions and action items of concern for the current conference will be reported to the conference GCs or PCs of the current year.<\/p>\n Any SC member can raise an issue by sending an email to the list of all SC members. SC members should reply to the mail on the list describing their position within a week unless otherwise specified by the sender. Issues can also be raised by adding items to future meeting agendas, or by communicating with the SC Chair directly.<\/p>\n If no consensus on a raised issue is apparent, the SC Chair will call for a formal vote, either online or in person. Every SC member has one vote. Every SC member should vote within a week for virtual votes, and immediately in person, unless otherwise specified by the SC Chair. A normal majority of votes will decide the result of the voting procedure unless otherwise specified by the SC Chair. If no vote is received from an SC member within the time specified, this will be counted as an abstention. A quorum of 50% (rounded up to the next whole number) of valid votes from SC members must be reached in order to accept the voting result. Extraordinary issues, such as modification of the ICMI regulation, require a majority of 2\/3. Issues raised during an SC meeting will be voted upon by the present SC members (either physically or virtually). Any vote (physical or virtual) can be made by secret ballot (at the discretion of the SC Chair), if requested by a member of the voting SC.<\/p>\n A document repository will be maintained and shared with future GCs and TPCs, recording the rules and procedures to ensure a consistent organization of the ICMI Conference. The repository contains the ICMI Handbook, the historical records of ICMI (past keynotes, organization committees, awards, SC members), and related ACM documents. Every year, the current ICMI organization committee members are invited to suggest updates to the ICMI Handbook after the ICMI conference. These updates are reviewed and accepted by the SC.<\/p>\n Within the current form of ICMI, there are a number of aspects that may require the SC to coordinate with ACM SIGCHI, including larger changes to the papers program (e.g., format), which may require ACM or SIGCHI VP Publications approval. Major review process and presentation format changes should be advised to the ACM SIGCHI VP Publications.<\/p>\n Volunteers for future ICMI organizations can contact the SC Chair for their names to be passed to the organization committees.<\/p>\n There was an advisory board\/steering committee for the early years of ICMI. At the end-of-the-conference town hall meeting at ICMI-PUI 2003, an action item emerged to establish an ICMI advisory board. Sharon Oviatt led the formation of this initial advisory board and its guidelines. It was in place by the end of 2003. This board was renamed as the Steering Committee after 2012. In 2025, an Advisory Committee was established for indefinite appointment, as an additional body to the Steering Committee.<\/p>\n Is this document unclear or incomplete? Is there anything else related to ACM ICMI you need to contact the SC for? Please send us your questions (and comments).<\/p>\n Appendix A: Current Members of the SC<\/strong><\/p>\n Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 (Germany) Appendix B: Current Members of the Advisory Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniel Gatica-Perez (Switzerland)<\/span> Appendix C: Past Members of ICMI\/MLMI Committees<\/strong><\/p>\n Elisabeth Andr\u00e9 (Germany), 2017-\u2026 Appendix D: ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n 2024:\u00a0Catherine Pelachaud 2023: Louis-Philippe Morency<\/span><\/p>\n 2022: Daniel Gatica-Perez<\/span><\/p>\n 2021: Elizabeth Andr\u00e9\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 2020: Shri Narayanan<\/span><\/p>\n 2019: Alex Waibel<\/span><\/p>\n 2018: James L.Crowley<\/span><\/p>\n 2017: Phil Cohen<\/span><\/p>\n 2016: Wolfgang Wahlster<\/span><\/p>\n 2015: Eric Horvitz<\/span><\/p>\n 2014: Sharon Oviatt<\/span><\/p>\n Appendix E: ICMI Community Service Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n 2024:\u00a0Wolfgang Wahlster<\/span><\/p>\n 2023: Carlos Busso<\/span><\/p>\n 2022: Yukiko Nakano<\/span><\/p>\n 2021:\u00a0<\/span>Louis-Philippe Morency<\/span><\/p>\n 2020: Fabio Pianesi<\/span><\/p>\n 2019: Dan Bohus<\/span><\/p>\n 2018: Jie Yang<\/span><\/p>\n 2017: Daniel Gatica-Perez<\/span><\/p>\n 2016: not awarded<\/span><\/p>\n 2015: Kenji Mase<\/span><\/p>\n 2014: Matthew Turk<\/span><\/p>\n Appendix F: 10-Year Technical Impact Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n 2024: Bogomolov, A., Lepri, B., Staiano, J., Oliver, N., Pianesi, F., & Pentland, A. (2014). Once upon a crime: towards crime prediction from demographics and mobile data. In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on multimodal interaction (pp. 427-434).<\/span><\/p>\n 2023: Escalera, S., Gonz\u00e0lez, J., Bar\u00f3, X., Reyes, M., Lopes, O., Guyon, I., Athitsos, V. and Escalante, H., (2013). Multi-modal gesture recognition challenge 2013: Dataset and results. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction (pp. 445-452).<\/span><\/p>\n 2022: Vatavu, R. D., Anthony, L., & Wobbrock, J. O. (2012). Gestures as point clouds: a $ P recognizer for user interface prototypes. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (pp. 273-280).<\/span><\/p>\n 2021: Morency, L. P., Mihalcea, R., & Doshi, P. (2011). Towards multimodal sentiment analysis: Harvesting opinions from the web. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interaction (pp. 169-176).<\/span><\/p>\n 2019: Castellano, G., Pereira, A., Leite, I., Paiva, A., & McOwan, P. W. (2009). Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features. In Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces (pp. 119-126).<\/span><\/p>\n 2015: Carletta, J., Ashby, S., Bourban, S., Flynn, M., Guillemot, M., Hain, T., … & Wellner, P. (2005). The AMI meeting corpus: A pre-announcement. In International workshop on machine learning for multimodal interaction (pp. 28-39). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.<\/span><\/p>\n 2014: Busso, C., Deng, Z., Yildirim, S., Bulut, M., Lee, C. M., Kazemzadeh, A., … & Narayanan, S. (2004). Analysis of emotion recognition using facial expressions, speech and multimodal information. In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces (pp. 205-211).<\/span><\/p>\n 2014: Oliver, N., Horvitz, E., & Garg, A. (2002). Layered representations for human activity recognition. In Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (pp. 3-8). IEEE.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ICMI Steering Committee International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modelling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions. 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Aligned with SIGCHI policy<\/a>, SC members who perform general conduct unworthy of community representation (such as corruption, plagiarism, sexual harassment, or other serious misdeeds as outlined in the ACM policy against discrimination and harassment<\/a>) will be immediately ejected from the SC and will not be invited. The SC \u2154 majority vote is required that the misconduct meets the criteria for ejection.<\/p>\nSC member roles and responsibilities<\/h5>\n
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(3) SC Chairs and members are elected by a simple majority vote. The Chairs must have served on the SC for at least two years, before assuming the role.
(4) SC members are elected by a majority vote.
(5) A term as SC Chair lasts two years, after which that person becomes the Post Chair for a term of one additional year. The term as SC Chair Elect lasts one year.<\/p>\nSC meetings<\/h5>\n
(1) Face-to-face meetings. There will be two face-to-face meetings per year, both organized during the ICMI Conference. The first of these meetings is a debrief with the current and next ICMI chairs, and primarily aims to enable knowledge transfer between the teams. The second meeting is an SC-only meeting.
(2) Virtual meetings. There will be quarterly virtual meetings if there are sufficiently many agenda items that warrant synchronous discussions. Any SC member can request a topic to be discussed via a virtual meeting. These will be organized with at least one month’s notice. Meeting minutes will be kept and shared with the SC for both cases.<\/p>\nSC communication and decision procedures<\/h5>\n
History of ICMI Governance<\/h5>\n
Feedback<\/h5>\n
Carlos Busso (USA), Chair
Zakia Hammal (USA)
Dirk Heylen (the Netherlands)
Hayley Hung (the Netherlands)
Yukiko Nakano (Japan)
Albert Ali Salah (the Netherlands), Post Chair
Bj\u00f6rn Schuller (Germany)
Raj Tumuluri (USA)<\/p>\n
Louis-Philippe Morency (USA)<\/span>
Matthew Turk (USA)<\/span><\/p>\n
Carlos Busso (USA), 2020-\u2026, Chair Elect: 2024, Chair: 2025-\u2026
Samy Bengio (USA), 2009-2014
Dan Bohus (USA), 2016-2018
Herve Bourlard (Switzerland), 2009-2013
Tom Calvert (Canada), 1999
Jean Carletta (UK), 2009-2012
Y.K. Chan (Hong Kong), 1999
James L. Crowley (France), 2006-2015
Ruwei Dai (China), 1999
Trevor Darrell (USA), 2003-2013
Sidney D\u2019Mello (USA), 2019-2021
Julien Epps (Australia), 2015-2017
Sadaoki Furui (Japan), 2003-2007, 2009-2012
Wen Gao (China), 1999-2002, Chair: 1999-2002
Daniel Gatica-Perez (Switzerland), 2013-2024; Chair: 2013-2015; Advisory Committee: 2025–\u2026
Zakia Hammal (USA), 2022-\u2026
Dirk Heylen (the Netherlands), 2025-\u2026
Hayley Hung (the Netherlands), 2025-\u2026
Yuri Ivanov (USA), 2009-2012
Seong-Whan Lee (Korea), 2000-2002
Kenji Mase (Japan), 2007-2017
Helen Meng (Hong Kong), 2016-2018
Louis-Philippe Morency (USA) 2015-2024; Chair: 2016-2019; Advisory Committee: 2025-\u2026
Emily Mower Provost (USA), 2019-2024
Yukiko Nakano (Japan), 2017-\u2026; Chair: 2020-2022; Post Chair: 2023
Sharon Oviatt (USA), 2003-2016, Chair: 2003-2007
Catherine Pelachaud (France), 2009-2013
Fabio Pianesi (Italy), 2006-2015; Chair 2010-2013
Andrei Popescu-Belis (Switzerland), 2009-2012
Alex Potamianos (Greece), 2009-2013
Steve Renals (UK), 2009-2015
Albert Ali Salah (Turkey; the Netherlands), 2016-\u2026, Chair Elect: 2022, Chair: 2023-2024, Post Chair: 2025
Rajeev Sharma (USA), 2003-2006
Bj\u00f6rn Schuller (Germany), 2019-\u2026
Qingyun Shi (China), 1999-2002
Rainer Stiefelhagen (Germany), 2009-2014
Ching Y. Suen (Canada), 1999, Chair: 1999-2002
Yuan Y. Tang (Hong Kong), 1999-2002
Raj Tumuluri (USA), 2022-\u2026
Matthew Turk (USA), 2002-2015, Chair: 2007-2009; Advisory Committee: 2025-\u2026
Wolfgang Wahlster (Germany), 2003-2014
Alex Waibel (USA), 1999-2002
Julie Willamson (USA), 2019
Jie Yang (USA), 2003-2015
Zhengyou Zhang (USA), 2016-2019
Victor Zue (USA), 1999-2002<\/p>\n
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