CCNC 2012 Special Session on Quality of Experience (QoE) for Multimedia
Communications
January 14-17, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Nowadays, consumer communications and networking applications face an
evolving demand on quality from a user experience perspective. In
addition to traditional Quality of Service (QoS), user experience, based
on factors such as personalization, privacy considerations, user
engagement, and context-based communication, becomes critical for
multimedia communications.

This requires knowledge not only of audio/video compression and protocol
design, but also knowledge of human and computer/device interaction,
cognitive psychology, and sociology. The goal of this special session is
to provide a platform for researchers and application developers to
present their ideas and share experiences on tackling highly challenging
tasks on Quality of Experience (QoE) over multimedia communications.

Topic of interests including but not limited to:

o Assessment of Quality of Experience
o Standardization in multimedia communication quality assessment
o Subjective and objective assessment methodologies for multimedia
communications
o Visual and auditory user experience assessment and modeling
o Emerging applications and tools for QoE assessment
o Psychological and sociological dimension of QoE
o Cognitive psychological user experience modeling and measurement
o QoE of multimedia communications in social networks
o QoE of context-based communications
o Personalized multimedia communications
o Privacy and security considerations of QoE
o QoE of multimedia communications in virtual, augmented and mixed
realities
o User Interface (UI) and Human-Computer/device Interaction (HCI) for
multimedia communications
o QoE of multimedia communication services and applications

Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position
papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an
early stage of development or share future vision. All the submissions
should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently
under review by another conference or journal. Please submit the paper
through EDAS.

The deadlines are as follows:
Paper submission Aug 31
Decisions to authors Sept 15
Final papers due Sept 30 (firm)

Organizers
Xiaotao Wu (Avaya Labs Research, USA) xwu@avaya.com
Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) nack@uva.nl
Ajita John (Avaya Labs Research, USA) ajita@avaya.com