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With the rapid development of Web-based learning and new concepts
like virtual cla- rooms, virtual laboratories and virtual
universities, many issues need to be addressed. On the technical
side, there is a need for effective technology for deployment of W-
based education.On the learning side, the cyber mode of learning is
very different from classroom-based learning. How can instructional
developmentcope with this new style of learning? On the management
side, the establishment of the cyber university - poses very
different requirements for the set-up. Does industry-university
partnership provide a solution to addressing the technological and
management issues? Why do we need to standardize e-learning and
what can we do already? As with many other new developments, more
research is needed to establish the concepts and best practice for
Web-based learning. ICWL 2004, the 3rd International Conference on
Web-Based Learning, was held at the Tsinghua University (Beijing,
China) from August 8th to 11th, 2004, as a continued attempt to
address many of the above-mentioned issues. Following the great
successes of ICWL 2002 (Hong Kong) and ICWL 2003 (Australia), ICWL
2004 aimed at p- senting new progress in the technical,
pedagogical, as well as management issues of Web-based learning.
The conference featured a comprehensive program, including a
tutorial session, a keynote talk, a main track for regular paper
presentations, and an - dustrial track. We received 120 papers and
accepted only 58 of them in the main track for both oral and poster
presentations.
Multimodal Interfaces represents an emerging interdisciplinary
research direction and has become one of the frontiers in Computer
Science. Multimodal interfaces aim at efficient, convenient and
natural interaction and communication between computers (in their
broadest sense) and human users. They will ultimately enable users
to interact with computers using their everyday skills. These
proceedings include the papers accepted for presentation at the
Third International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2000)
held in Beijing, China on 1416 O ctober 2000. The papers were
selected from 172 contributions submitted worldwide. Each paper was
allocated for review to three members of the Program Committee,
which consisted of more than 40 leading researchers in the field.
Final decisions of 38 oral papers and 48 poster papers were made
based on the reviewers' comments and the desire for a balance of
topics. The decision to have a single track conference led to a
competitive selection process and it is very likely that some good
submissions are not included in this volume. The papers collected
here cover a wide range of topics such as affective and perceptual
computing, interfaces for wearable and mobile computing, gestures
and sign languages, face and facial expression analysis,
multilingual interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, speech and
handwriting, multimodal integration and application systems. They
represent some of the latest progress in multimodal interfaces
research.
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