The The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the ICMI 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. The conference was held in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India on on November 7-11th.
1st Place: “On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakes” by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft.
2nd Place: “Beyond the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction: A Centennial Vision of Interplanetary Virtual Spaces in Turn-based Metaverse” by Lik Hang Lee (KAIST), Carlos Bermejo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ahmad Alhilal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Simo Hosio (University of Oulu), Esmée de Haas, and Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3rd Place: “Decentralized, not Dehumanized: Bringing Utility to NFTs through Multimodal Interaction” by Anqi Wang (Columbia University), Ze Gao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Lik-hang Lee (KAIST), Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference!