Call for Industry Talks & Exhibitions

We welcome contributions on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques applied to immersive media experience at large. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the use/development of AI/ML to: enable novel media experiences, enhance production tools and workflows, support crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence in rich media systems, media analysis and information diffusion, predict real-world events, monitor media bias, misinformation, and fake news.

This topic is suitable for contributions whose primary contribution is the introduction of novel ways of experiencing interactive media content. That includes new forms of media content (e.g., VR, AR, MR, XR, 360°, live-streaming, etc.) consumed in diverse ways, including across multiple screens, platforms, and in immersive theatres. Application areas include entertainment and information, including interactive and generative documentaries, transmedia storytelling, volumetric filmmaking, live performance broadcasts, and object-based media productions. Papers in other application areas, such as education, healthcare, well-being, governance, and decision-making, are also welcome.

This topic focuses on advances in audience engagement with media content as a rapidly evolving activity across diverse platforms, devices, and timeframes. It welcomes contributions that seek to understand audiences using a rich variety of analytic approaches, including sensing audiences, sentiment analysis, and measuring and monitoring the quality of experience. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) consumption trends and behaviors in young audiences, sharing practices and communication strategies, identifying engagement patterns across diverse genres, platforms, and demographics, scheduled versus on-demand content consumption, binge viewing, and multi-platform engagement.

This topic focuses on technologies, systems, and interfaces that improve and advance our interactions with media content online, at home, or on the move. It encourages submissions describing technical advancements in streaming systems, content synchronization for multi-platform delivery, and recommendation and companion apps. Additional areas for consideration include game engines for content delivery, location-based and context-aware applications and services, and object-based media.

This topic solicits papers describing procedural advances in the preparation, design, and development of media experiences. Areas of interest include new production processes for TV, online video, VR, AR, XR, and 360° formats. Novel tools and workflows using motion capture, volumetric capture, and animation are encouraged, as are the presentations of innovative authoring and data-driven tools for interactive or multi-platform content development. In particular, the applicability and impact of Generative AI in production tools and workflows are also part of this topic. In addition to papers describing technical innovations, this topic area is also interested in innovations from design and humanities perspectives detailing the authoring process for writing interactive content and the human-centered design methods used to realize these narratives.

This topic focuses on the new business, marketing, purchasing, subscription, and monetising strategies encountered in the new media landscape of TV and online video. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) targeted advertisements, freemium products, programmatic media buying, in-programme recommendations and purchases, exploiting consumption data, monetising second-screen experiences, and social media influencer strategies.

The impact of the new interactive media and TV landscape on culture and society is powerful and raises many important and challenging topics for consideration. This area welcomes papers from a wide variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives examining structured reality TV, social media manipulation and targeting, media convergence and platform monopolies, intellectual property, remix culture, fan culture, media activism and participation politics, or tactical media practices. In addition, research concerning media violence, social media addiction, or issues of bias and ethics would also be appropriate for this topic.

This topic focuses on disruptive media practices that challenge traditional media consumption patterns and expand spectator experiences. Authors are invited to describe the design, development of (and response to) constructed media-centric work or speculate about future-oriented media provocations.