The Sixth IEEE International Workshop
on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL)

in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011
(ISM2011)
December 5-7, 2011, Dana Point, CA, USA


http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/pub/conferences/mtel-2011/cfp.html


Call for Papers

Due to its potential to make learning easier, more convenient, and more
effective, education is one of the preeminent areas of applications for
multimedia. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are
interested in the intersection area between the technological point of view and
the human-centered view of multimedia technologies for E-Learning.


The workshop topics include but are not limited to:

* Lecture Recording, Multimedia Authoring & Classroom Methodology
- Automated lecture recording and presentation techniques
- Classroom note taking and whiteboard capturing and analysis
- Multimedia authoring software for e-learning

* Information Retrieval & Search in Multimedia

- Multimedia information retrieval
- Automated lecture analysis and indexing
- Intelligent searching and navigation in e-learning portals

* Experiments, Laboratories & Virtual Reality
- Simulations, animations, and virtual laboratories in teaching
- Virtual reality and augmented reality in education

* Multimedia Architectures & Repositories
- Repositories for multimedia education
- Architectures for User Tracking
- Technical infrastructures for large scale web lecture repositories

* Semantic Multimedia in e-Learning Scenarios
- Context aware semantic analysis of e-Learning content
- Semantic modelling and ontological engineering for e-Learning scenarios
- Semantic Web based online educational systems

* Feedback, Adaptation & Personalization
- Automated analysis of learning and teaching interactions
- Implicit and explicit learner feedback
- Social Web technologies for adaptation and personalization of
e-Learning applications


Workshop Proceedings

Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE which will be included in
IEEEXplore and also be available as printed workshop proceedings. A number of
selected papers will be invited for extension and publication in a special
issue of ITSE (International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart
Education) published by Emerald.

Submission Details

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. Papers should be submitted in electronic form as
PDF file to the organizers. Submissions must be formatted according to the
8.5x11 inch double column IEEE CS proceedings format and must not exceed 6
pages.

Submit to: ieeemtel@gmail.com


Important Dates

Submission due: July 20, 2011
Notification: August 20, 2011
Camera-Ready due: September 07, 2011


Co-Chairs

Markus Ketterl, Univ. of Osnabrueck, Germany
Robert Mertens, ICSI Berkeley, USA
Harald Sack, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany


Advisory Chairs

Gerald Friedland, ICSI Berkeley, USA
Lars Knipping, Berlin Inst. of Technology, Germany


Program Committee (Pending)

Lora Aroyo, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Auer, Univ. of Appl. Sc. Kaernten, Austria
Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Helmar Burkhart, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland
Christopher Brooks, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
Paul Dickson, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Wolfgang H?rst, Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands
Ulrich Kortenkamp, Univ. of Edu. Karlsruhe, Germany
Fleming Lampi, Kavisio, Germany
Ying Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Thomas Richter, Univ. of Stuttgart
Jochen Schwenniger, Fraunhofer IAIS
J?rgen Steimle, Darmstadt Inst. of Techn., Germany
Georg Turban, Darmstadt Inst. of Techn., Germany
Dominique Vaufreydaz, Univ. Pierre-Mendes
Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke, Ilmenau Inst. of Technology
Peter Ziewer, Munich Inst. of Technology