The eNTERFACE'12 workshop is being organized by the Metz' Campus of Supélec and co-sponsored by the ILHAIRE and Allegro european projects.

The previous workshops in Mons (Belgium), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Genoa (Italy), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Plzen (Czech Republic) had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this original workshop. We expect that eNTERFACE'12 hosted by Supélec in Metz (France) will continue and take this line of fruitful collaboration one step further. Previous editions of eNTERFACE have already inspired competitive projects in the area of multimodal interfaces, has secured the contributions of leading professionals and has encouraged participation of a large number of graduate and undergraduate students.

Supélec has recently inaugurated is new research laboratory dedicated to cognitive robotics and smart environment. The workshop will be held in a brand new 800 m2 building in which robotics materiels as well as many sensors will be available to the attendees. This is why we propose a special focus of this edition on topics related to human-robot and human-environment interaction.

The ultimate goal of this workshop is to make this event a unique opportunity for students and experts to meet and work together, and to foster the development of tomorrow's multimodal research community.