Demos 2020

This topic focuses on advances in audience engagement with media content as a rapidly evolving activity across diverse platforms, devices, and timeframes. New interactive technologies are more audience driven than never. Media considers demographics, genres and engagement as key parameters to target content but also other data intrinsic in the technology, as quality of experience, monitoring and other measurements, also related to feelings and interaction.

Immersion and interaction are the two big new challenges for the media technology. VR and AR content are becoming relentlessly more popular for entertainment, video conferencing, gaming, content personalization. Interaction, as well, is a crucial aspect of the experience in content like interactive movies, documentaries. Both aspects get mixed together in concepts as social presence, augmented, mixed and virtual reality, accessibility, education and heritage.

Technologies, systems, and interfaces that improve and advance our interactions with media content online, at home, or on the move. Contributions showcasing technical advancements in streaming systems, content synchronisation for multi-platform delivery, and recommendation and companion apps, are encouraged. Additional areas for consideration include games engines for content delivery, social media, crowdsourcing, location-based and context-aware applications and services and object-based media.

This topic solicits papers describing procedural advances in the production, design, preparation and development of media experiences. Novel tools and workflows using motion capture, volumetric capture, animation and interactive storytelling are encouraged.

Media evolution is enabling new business models and marketing strategies. Online video monetisation, VR/AR business models, AR advertisement are examples of how the media economics are being remodelled.

Demonstrations of the use of machine learning and/or artificial intelligence techniques to capture, generate, or understand social media experiences. It includes areas such as verification and verification scamming, information diffusion, monitoring media bias, misinformation and fake news, predictability of real-world events, and crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence in rich media systems. 

Popular cultural sectors and society are also being involved in the big technological advances. Sensible areas include politics, violence, cyberbullying, social media manipulation and targeting, media convergence and platform monopolies, intellectual property, remix culture, fan culture, media activism and participation politics, tactical media practices, etc. This area welcomes demos exploring such effects or providing technological solutions / contributions in this context.

This topic focuses on disruptive media practises that seek to challenge traditional media consumption patterns and expand spectator experiences. Novel media technologies provide fascinating opportunities for creativity and to boost the reach of vide-centric art. Immersive arts, interaction, VR/AR are only a few of the new platforms that artists can enjoy to create.

Devices, platforms, tools, interaction modalities, presentation modes and, in general, solutions for better accessibility