LIQUE 2025

Workshop Website: LIQUE 2025

The 1st Life Improvement in Quality by Ubiquitous Experiences Workshop (LIQUE 2021) happened together with IMX 2021 – ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences on June 21st, 2021 (http://lique2021.midiacom.uff.br). It gathered researchers from different countries to discuss how immersive experiences and interactive media can be used to improve our quality of life. The second and third editions of the LIQUE Workshop were also on the first day of ACM IMX 2022 in Aveiro, Portugal and ACM IMX 2023 in Nantes, France.

As Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) become more and more present everywhere, with every use, in a pervasive, universal and predominant way (or in a unique word: ubiquitous) there is a growing interest in IMX systems designed for life quality improvements in all possible aspects. This is specially relevant nowadays that we all are facing the challenge to keep the comfort related to technological development and at same time respect the Earth equilibrium and ecosystems’ maintenance in all aspects.

Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) typically includes as many as possible users and digital developers inside the implementation involving and transforming all the participants of the process. However, little is directed to the quality of life in all aspects that could affect such social/machine/environment interactions in current face-to-face settings. At this moment, it is crucial to reflect and discuss the implications and possibilities related to them. As in the last editions, this workshop proposed to be held together with ACM Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) 2025, aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss the opportunities and challenges of Life Improvement in Quality. The format considers work in progress with partial results being an opportunity for authors to receive suggestions of improvements and advances in the state of art.

Type of submissions/contributions:

Submissions must be prepared as short papers and demos (optional) of works-in-progress.

Short papers should contain between 4 and 8 pages and present proposals with initial results. Submission of a work in this workshop does not preclude the opportunity of submission of a long paper in the main track of the IMX. Additionally authors are invited to submit a demo (video up to 3 minutes in mp4 format) related to their proposal. This video is optional but it will be additional material to evaluate the short paper.

 Topics:

• Understanding users and audience interests and their relation with content of interactive systems for life quality;
• Developing new content forms, formats and interactions for media/videocentric experiences for life quality;
• New database developments based on diversity of research results in interactive systems for life quality;.
• Analyzing and developing underlying models, technologies and systems for Ubiquitous Experiences for life quality;
• Creating tools and workflows for interactive systems aiming life quality and healthcare;
• Exploring the use and implications of AI and Machine Learning in interactive systems aiming quality of life;
• Developing innovative models and techniques for life quality in social isolation environments;
• Understanding wider social and cultural contexts of environments and Earth equilibrium;
• Applications in ambient area such as pollutions control, urbanism, traffic and others;
• Applications in education, such as teaching and simulations;
• Applications in healthcare, such as diagnosis, procedure training, therapy and rehabilitation;
• Applications in environmental sustainability, such as multidisciplinary explorations for awareness and community engagement; and 
• Applications in any area aiming to improve life quality.

Workshop Format

Proceedings of the previous editions of LIQUE together with IMX 2023 are in:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3604321#heading2

Those of 2021/2022 have been published directly by Brazilian Computing Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação – SBC) available at: https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/lique/issue/archive

Format and duration: Half day session of Works-in-Progress’ short papers, with results and interaction process shown (optionally) as demos.

Organizers: 

• Anselmo C. Paiva – UFMA
• Aura Conci – UFF
• Débora C. Muchaluat-Saade – UFF
• Fátima L. S. Nunes Marques – USP
• Tiago Bonini Borchartt – UFMA

LIQUE 2025 Workshop TPC chairs:

Tiago Bonini (tiago.bonini@ufma.br)

Anselmo Paiva (paiva@nca.ufma.br)