9th Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS

Important (EXTENDED!) Dates:

February 14th, 2009	(submission deadline)
March 8th, 2009	(notification of results)
March 20th, 2009	(camera ready copy due)
May 28-30, 2009	(Symposium in Salamanca, Spain)

Smart Graphics 2009 welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners, as well as artists and graphic designers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the design of smart interactive visual, auditory, and haptic displays.

Please submit your paper as a PDF file at

Frebruary 14th, 2009 is the common submission deadline

Submission categories are divided into:

Full research papers: these will encompass comprehensive descriptions of original work within the scope of the symposium (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format).
Posters: tentative or preliminary results of research or design work with emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of the ideas (limited to 4 pages in Springer LNCS format). Poster papers will be included in the proceedings.
System demonstrations: short descriptions of research or design work that the authors intend to show and discuss in a demo session at the symposium (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format). System demonstration papers will be included in the proceedings.
Arts track: computer animations, interactive art, digital music, hybrid art, etc. A two-three page proposal outlining the concept and technique of the artwork. An international jury of renowned scientists and artists will select the submissions that best represent the idea of "Smart Graphics Arts". Selected works will be exhibited during the Smart Graphics symposium, within the framework of the 5th International Arts Festival of Castilla y León. A report of the art track including all the selected works will be included in the proceedings. The best piece will be awarded and its author will be invited to the sysmposium.

Smartgraphics specially encourages young researchers to submit their ideas and results. As in previous conferences, proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

information visualization
visual analytics
graphical abstraction
multimodal information presentation
non-desktop interfaces
user interaction
sketch-based interfaces
interaction science
scene perception
cognitive sciences
user studies
computer graphics
artificial intelligence
virtual and mixed reality
graphics design
technological art

This year, we propose a specific emphasis on visual analytics as well as all kinds of transversal research that harnesses the power of humans and technological artefacts in order to convey, understand and deal with complex scientific and social processes.

Smart Graphics, beyond a conventional conference, will be intertwined with the 5th International Arts Festival of Castilla y León, and we invite artists, technologists and scholars from all disciplines to convene in Salamanca May 28-30, 2009. Both during the Smart Graphics Symposium and during the Festival (May 29-June 15) workshops, system demonstrations, exhibitions, performances, panels and open discussions related to how information technology is provided to the society and how art is evolving and taking advantage of technological artefacts in its quest of new artistic forms, will become part of the unique streets and buildings of UNESCO's World Heritage city of Salamanca.