Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Visualization and Visual Languages

• 3D Printing Innovations

• Additive Manufacturing

• Aesthetic Computing

• Ambient Information Interaction

• Automated Generation and Layout of Visualisations

• Biomedical Imagery

• Computer-Assisted Visual Art and Design

• Digital Modeling and Fabrication

• Fusion of Vision with Audio and Other Modalities

• Gestural Computing

• Human-Machine Interface Design

• Human Vision Systems and Models

• Parallel/Distributed/Neural Computing and Representations for Visual Information

• Pictorial Databases and Information Systems

• Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing

• Scientific Visualization

• Sketch and Gesture based design

• Sketch and Gesture based interaction with data

• Sketch Recognition

• Software to Support the use of Visual Languages

• Visual and Spatial/Temporal Reasoning

• Visual Computing for Expert Communities

• Visual Computing in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

• Visual Computing on Sensed Data

• Visual Languages

• Visual Programming

• Visualization of Computational Processes

Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Technology

• media coding, acquisition and standards

• QoS and QoE (quality of experience) control

• digital rights management and conditional access solutions

• privacy and security issues

• mobile devices and wireless networks

• mobile intelligent applications

• sensor networks, environment control and management

Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Models and Systems

• human-computer interaction

• multimedia affective computing

• languages for distributed multimedia

• multimedia software engineering issues

• semantic computing and processing

• media grid computing, cloud and virtualization

• web services and multi-agent systems

• multimedia databases and information systems

• multimedia indexing and retrieval systems

• multimedia and cross media authoring

Applications of Distributed and Sentient Multimedia Systems

• collaborative and social multimedia systems and solutions

• humanities and cultural heritage applications, management and fruition

• multimedia preservation

• cultural heritage preservation, management and fruition

• distance and lifelong learning

• emergency and safety management

• e-commerce and e-government applications

• health care management and disability assistance

• intelligent multimedia computing

• internet multimedia computing

• virtual, mixed and augmented reality

• user profiling, reasoning and recommendations

Distance Education Technologies

• Technology Enhanced Learning

• Ubiquitous Learning

• Intelligent learning

• Eclipse Open source ecosystem and E-learning

• Societal, Legal and Ethical Considerations

• Pedagogical issues

• Distance Learning for culture and arts

• Virtual environment and serious game for education