<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-040a73ad-2a5b-2b55-72f8-60fd290aeb88"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2391304347826086;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Participation: Tutorials, Workshops and Studios</span></h2>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2391304347826086;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2014<br class="">
Dresden, Germany, November 16-19<br class=""></span><a href="http://www.its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></h2>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:0.8333333333333334;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, May 12, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for proposal submissions</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, June 2: Notifications</span></p>
</li></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:0.8333333333333334;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tutorials and Studios</span></h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ITS 2014 is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface technolo</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">gies. Attendees join tutorials to get a broad overview of the field of Interactive Surfaces and Tabletops. This year, we also invite hands-on studios, exploring new and cutting-edge technologies in the context of interactive surfaces. The deadline for tutorial and studio submissions will be May 12th 2014, the notifications will be sent on June 2nd 2014. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> feel free to submit a tutorial or studio proposal about any topic of interest to the community. Tutorials could for example be on topics like:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pens+touch, etc.)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Touch technologies overviews & taxonomies</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, proxemics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multi-touch sensing approaches</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evaluation methods for surface applications</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Natural User Interfaces (NUI) on surfaces</span></p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Studios include a significant part of hands-on ‘building’ activities, and examples are:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Building new interfaces with flexible displays</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Digital fabrication techniques for building novel prototypes</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Novel toolkits, programming strategies, multi-touch software development and techniques</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tangibles on surfaces</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Musical instrument interfaces on interactive surfaces</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Above-the-table gesture recognition with Kinect</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">… and other exciting topics!</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The tutorial chairs are looking for industry or academic leaders in interactive surface technology to run tutorials and studios that will run between 2 hours and a full day in length and take place the day before the conference starts (i.e., November 16, 20</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">14). Organizers of full-day tutorials/studios will receive one </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">complimentary conference registration and two complimentary tutorial/studio registrations to be used among the co-organizers</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Organizers of </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">half-day tutorials or studios (2-4h)  receive a 50% discount of the applicable conference registration fee for one participant and one complimentary tutorial/studio registration. </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We request a a short proposal (up to 4 pages) in the CHI EA publication format (</span><a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted proposals will be available in the ACM digital library.</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Plea</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">se indicate the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topic of tutorial or studio and relevance to tabletop community</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description of planned hands-on activities (for studios) and topics covered</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Short bio of speaker(s)</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please add one additional page (for a total of 5 pages maximum) with the following information:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cost of material and hardware (per participant, with list of individual items)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Physical requirements: space, equipment, video/audio, specialized tools, etc.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Requested length of the tutorial/studio (2h, 4h, 8h)</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send the tutorial or studio proposal to </span><a href="mailto:tutorials@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">tutorials@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="mailto:studios@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">studios@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> until the submission deadline on May 12, 2014.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:0.8333333333333334;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops</span></h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops organizers for ITS 2014 will select a topic of interest about new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface techn</span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ologies. The organizers manage submissions and reviews for proposals. The deadline for workshop submissions will be May 12th 2014, the notifications will be sent on June 2nd 2014. Workshop organizers are welcome to submit any topic of interest, some suggestions include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multitouch on mobile devices</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Large (wall-sized) surfaces</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Surfaces in public spaces, workplaces, homes</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Surfaces in domain specific environments (e.g. safety critical, education, games)</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information or Scientific Visualization on Interactive Surfaces</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">… and other exciting topics!</span></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop chairs are looking for leaders in interactive surface topics to run workshops that run between 4 and 8 hours in length and occur the day before the conference starts (i.e., November 16, 2014). Workshop organizers of full-day workshops will receive two complimentary workshop registrations; organizers of half-day workshops will receive one complimentary workshop registration. Workshops can be open (free to anyone who registered for it) or closed (attendees need to submit position papers). We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages) in the CHI EA publication format (</span><a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted proposals will be available in the ACM digital library. </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please be sure to indicate the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topic of Workshop</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee members for the Workshop</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Relevance to Tabletop and Interactive Surface community</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics covered in the workshop and planned activities</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nature of the workshop – specify details as appropriate</span></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please add one additional page (for a total of 5 pages maximum) with the following information:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Room requirements: Tables, Chairs, Projector configuration, whiteboards, etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Requested length (4h, 8h)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:23px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open or closed workshop</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6666666666666667;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt">
<span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send the workshop proposal to </span><a href="mailto:workshops@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">workshops@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> until the deadline on May 12, 2014.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:0.8333333333333334;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joint Tutorial/Studio+Workshop Proposals</span></h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year, we are again encouraging submissions on joint tutorial/studio + workshop proposals, that is, a tutorial or studio followed by a workshop on the same topic. The idea is to have an established active researcher start discussion on the state of the art on a relevant topic, followed by position paper presentations and discussion. Possible formats would be 2 + 2 hours (half day) or 4 + 4 hours (full day). If you are interested into this format please contact chairs for details (</span><a href="mailto:workshops@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">workshops@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">).</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:0.8333333333333334;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(63,73,80);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tutorials, Workshops and Studios Co-Chairs</span></h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kentaro Fukuchi, Meiji University</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicolai Marquardt, University College London</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.6;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><a href="mailto:tutorials@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">tutorials@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(63,73,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="mailto:workshops@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">workshops@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,124,163);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="mailto:studios@its2014.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">studios@its2014.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,124,163);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
</span><div class="gmail_extra"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div>Aaron Genest, Ph.D.<br><div><a href="mailto:agenest@gmail.com" target="_blank">agenest@gmail.com</a></div><div>@aarongenest</div></div>
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