The conference is now over. We are very thankful to all the participants, the authors and the Program Committee members who made this possible.


The conference day - September 15, 2009 had 15 participants from the following institutions/companies (from left to right in the image above):
Daniel Sonntag, German Research Center for AI
Alexander I. Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel Porta, German Research Center for AI
Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research, USA
Garrett Weinberg, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Piero Pierucci, SVOX, Switzerland
Markku Turunen, Univ. of Tampere, Finland
Nikolaos Tsourakis, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Corinna Harwardt, FGAN - Research Establishment for Applied Science, Germany
Angel M. Gómez, University of Granada, Spain
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India (first row)
Ying Liu, Nokia Research Center, China (first row)
Greg Fields, BlackBerry, USA (missing in the pic)
Can Liu, RWTH Aachen, Germany (behind the camera - student volunteer)


The workshop had discussions around the 7 paper presentations, and also on the future of the SiMPE community. Some of the images below capture the moments on the workshop day.
A test table with merged cells

Alex wondering about the future
of SiMPE.



Daniels with their cool iPhone
app.

Markku talking about finally
finding an application where
speech makes sense.
Ivan proudly shows a video of
the Cummute UX
car-navigation system.

Nikolas presents his speech
translator application.



Corinna explains difference between
the different GSM speech signals.



All flock to see the live demo
by Garrett.


All listening to Ying's explanation
on the use of speech in Mandarin SMS.

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With the proliferation of pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities, client-side speech processing has been emerging as a viable alternative. SiMPE 2009, the fourth in the series, will continue to explore issues, possibilities, and approaches for enabling speech processing as well as convenient and effective speech and multimodal user interfaces. One of our major goals for SiMPE 2009 is to increase the participation of speech/multimodal HCI designers, and increase their interactions with speech processing experts.

Multimodality got more attention in SiMPE 2008 than it has received in the previous years. In SiMPE 2007, the focus was on developing regions. Given the importance of speech in developing regions, SiMPE 2008 had SiMPE for developing regions as a topic of interest. We think of this as a key emerging area for mobile speech applications, and will continue this in 2009 as well.

Intended Audience

This burgeoning, multi-disciplinary area brings together people from various disciplines - speech, mobile applications, user interface design, emerging markets, to discuss opportunities and challenges. It would be particularly relevant and interesting to have the perspective of practitioners (application builders) and the theorists to discuss the right models and principles upon which such applications should be based and evaluated. Based on the experiences of the last years, SiMPE is proving to be a good meeting ground and the SiMPE community is growing stronger and varied.

Important Dates

Position Paper Submission Deadline May 18, 2009 (11:59 PM Bonn Time)
Notification of Acceptance June 08, 2009
Camera-ready Submission Deadline June 29, 2009
Early Registration Deadline June 29, 2009
Workshop September 15, 2009, 9:00 A.M. -- 5:30 P.M.



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