Call for Submissions

In collaboration with our hosts, Mana Contemporary, organizing institutions Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology are pleased to announce the Seventh International conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO’20).

We would like to invite submissions for paper presentations, performances, workshops and more to MOCO’20.

Theme

Movement Sensations.

Important Dates

Notification of Acceptance: May 22, 2020
Registration starts: May 22, 2020

Submissions

MOCO is open to a wide range of ways to present your work. In addition to papers for oral and poster presentations, we invite submission of a wide range of practice work such as demos, performances, games, artistic works and movement workshops (in which participants take part in a guided movement activity). We encourage submitters to be creative in proposals for practice sessions and are open to novel formats.

Topics

Include but not limited to:

Dance and technology
Interactive dance
Music and movement
Gesture and sound
Entrainment and movement
Sensory augmentation of movement
Sensorimotor learning
Embodied cognition and movement
Embodied interaction
Technique analysis
Mechanisms of coordination dynamics
Learning detection through the movement
Non-linear analysis as a tool for diagnosis
Movement in social interaction
Movement and computing for autism and other nervous disorders
Movement analysis and analytics
Machine learning for movement
Movement computation for entrainment
Movement computation in education

Movement computation in ergonomics, sports, and health
Movement expression in virtual humans and robots
Theoretical approaches to movement understanding
Philosophical perspectives on movement and computing
Movement Notation Systems (e.g. Laban or Eshkol-Wachman)

New topics:

Full body interaction
Individual and group movement capture in sports
Non-linear analysis to predict performance and learning process
Bio-sensing, biocontrol and movement
Digital biomarkers for tracking the peripheral nervous system
Movement as a proxy of human brain

Papers and posters

The conference is an opportunity to present original research and details of collaborative work. Participants will have the chance to offer a presentation of the results of their research on one of the themes of the conference and to interact with their scientific/artistic peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.

All papers submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed.

Long paper with oral presentation (8 pages maximum)
Short paper with oral presentation (4 pages maximum)
Extended abstract with poster presentation (6 pages maximum in the extended abstract format)

Practice Works

The term “practice work” refers to practice-based works in the area of movement and computing. These can either be artistically-oriented descriptions/demonstrations of specific performances or systems, or descriptions of a particular computationally-oriented application. We suggest the following as examples of what a practice work might be, but also stress that the list is not exhaustive, the only criteria being excellence of the work and whether it is possible to present the work given the resources, time, and space available to the conference.

Suggested practice work topics include:

Technology demos
Performances (e.g., dance, physical performance, music)
Artworks

Interactive Installations
Games
Video Presentations

Practice works may either be submitted for presentation as posters or demos. Poster submissions will detail a specific approach to the practice of movement and computing. Selected posters will be presented at the conference, and an accompanying extended abstract will be published in the conference proceedings.

Demo submissions will outline a live demonstration/performance that will take place at the conference. Demos will take place during dedicated sessions at the conference. Performances may be submitted in the Demo category, in which case a dedicated time will be given for the performance (generally up to 10 minutes), however due to the configuration of Mana Contemporary and the conference schedule, Demo performances will take place in a shared gallery space (and not on a proscenium stage). Practitioners submitting in the Demo category will have the option of including an ACM-formatted extended abstract for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Note that ONLY practice works with an "extended abstract" submission will be published at the conference proceedings after they successfully pass the peer-review process. The other required submission materials for the practice works will go through a jury/panel review process.

POSTER PRACTICE WORKS submissions consist of the following items combined into one pdf document. Please note, all submissions must be anonymous--this includes external media:

For inclusion in the conference proceedings, an extended abstract following the template provided (note, for practice works there is a 2-pages maximum when using the extended abstract template below).
A document with links to supporting media (videos, pictures, audio, etc.)

DEMO PRACTICE WORKS submissions consist of the following items combined into one pdf document. Please note, all submissions must be anonymous--this includes external media:

A 200-word abstract to be included in conference program
A 1-2 page (maximum) project description, including links to supporting media (videos, pictures, audio, etc.)
A 1-2 page (maximum) technical rider detailing all necessary (1) equipment, (2)furniture, (3)space, and (4) set-up time requirements for the Demo. This document should clearly indicate what equipment the submitter is providing, and what equipment is expected to be provided by the organizers. The organizers will make every effort to provide standard equipment as needed for Demo submissions (e.g. sound reinforcement, projection, displays, etc.), however specialized equipment required for performance will be the responsibility of the submitter.
(optional) For inclusion in the conference proceedings, an extended abstract following the template provided (note, for practice works there is a 2-pages maximum when using the extended abstract template below).

Please note that we are an academic conference with a low fee which means we cannot pay for commissioned work or provide any financial compensation to submitters in this category. All accepted submissions will require at least one author to register for the conference.

Graduate SYmposium - Now Due April 6, 2020

Submissions in this category represent an opportunity for graduate students to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment and with the participation of experts in the field. To this end, we especially encourage and welcome work that is in progress.

Students will have the opportunity to establish a community with other graduate students at a similar stage of their research. Accepted papers will be presented as posters in a dedicated “poster tour” session where authors will have an opportunity to orally present a short elevator pitch to experts in the field. We encourage students to submit a paper even if they are early in their graduate career.

Papers should not be longer than 4 pages including references. Use the “long and short papers” template below, but do not exceed 4 pages. The first author must be a current graduate student (at the time of submission). Graduate Symposium papers will be indexed and published in the conference proceedings. Please redact your authors identities in your submission so the review can be blind. Videos and other supplementary materials are welcomed. Students accepted to present their work at the Graduate Symposium must plan to attend it.

Submission Format and Procedure

All submissions should be in PDF format after using the templates linked below
All papers submissions must be anonymous.
The MOCO long paper, short paper, and extended abstract proceedings will be indexed and published in the ACM digital library.

For templates and examples please follow the links:‍

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