Section: Dissemination

Contribution to the Scientific Community

Participation on Conference Program Committees

James L. Crowley served as Conference General Co-Chairman, ICMI-MLMI 2009, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, MIT, Nov 2009.

Sabine Coquillart has served as General Chairman of the Joint Virtual Reality Conference, Lyon, Dec 2009.

James L. Crowley Has served as programme committee area-chair for the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009) in Kobe, Japan, May 12 - 17, 2009.

James L. Crowley has served as a member of the program committee for the following conferences.

• ICMI 2009, ACM Int. Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Cambridge Mass, Oct 2009.

• ICVS 2009, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Liege, Belgium, Oct 2009

• ICCV 2009, IEEE International Conferenc on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Oct-Nov 2009

• CVPR 2009, IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, juin 2009

• INTERACT 2009, 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction, Aug 2009.

Participation on Advisory Panels

• James L. Crowley served as Rapporteur for the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) unit of the EC ICT program "Human Computer Confluence" panel. The panel has defined the scope and objectives for an FET Proactive Research initiative on Human Computer Confluence published in 2009 as part of FP7 ICT program.

• James L. Crowley hasq served as co-chairman (with Joelle Coutaz) of the DGRI A3/GCS3 working group on Intelligence ambiante, organised by the French MESR ( Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche).

• James L. Crowley participates as member of the Minister of Research panel SNRI: National Research and Innovation Strategy, subpanel "Quality of Life". The SNRI panel is tasked to prepare a research plan to govern French national research for the period 2010 through 2014

• James Crowley has served as member of the steering committee for the ANR programme Carotte (2009).

Invited Presentations by James L. Crowley

1. Evolutions in the Understanding of Intelligence, Journées Vaucanson, Grenoble, 22 octobre 2009.

2. Ambient Intelligence for Quality of Life, CMU Quality of Life Institute, Pittsburgh, 14 Sept 2009

3. Context-aware Services for Commercial Environments, Rencontre INRIA-Industrie, INRIA Lilles, 12 juin 2009.