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Graphics Interface 2012 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, at York University from May 28th to 30th. GI 2012 will be the 38th Graphics Interface conference; it is the oldest continuously-scheduled conference in the field. GI consistently attracts high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics, from around the world.

All paper submissions are fully peer reviewed by two members of the program committee and two external reviewers. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit significantly extended and revised manuscripts to be considered for journal publication in a special section of Computers and Graphics.

Graphics Interface 2012 will have joint sessions for the graphics and HCI tracks. Topics of interest at GI include (but are not restricted to):

GI 2012 is held in conjunction with the Computer and Robot Vision 2012 (CRV), and the Artificial Intelligence 2012 conferences. Registration will permit attendees to attend any talk in the three conferences (GI, AI, CRV), which will be scheduled in parallel tracks. The conference will also include a banquet and a posters/demos session.

Summary of Deadlines:

• Papers submission: December 22, 2011, 11:59 pm PST
• Author notification: March 3rd, 2012
• Final papers due: Mar 18th, 2012
• Posters and demos submission: April 5th, 2012, 11:59 pm PST
• Poster notification: April 15th, 2012

Program Co-Chairs:

• Stephen Brooks, Graphics Co-Chair
  Dalhousie University
  6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, CANADA
  sbrooks [at] cs dal ca
  
  
• Kirstie Hawkey, HCI Co-Chair
  Dalhousie University
  6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, CANADA
  hawkey [at] cs dal ca

Program Committee:

• Jeremy Cooperstock, McGill University
• Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Edward Lank, University of Waterloo
• Bonnie MacKay, Dalhousie University
• Karyn Moffat, McGill University
• Carman Neustadter, Simon Fraser University
• Sylvie Noel, Communications Research Centre Canada
• Andriy Pavlovych, University of Saskatchewan
• Anthony Tang, University of Calgary
• Jason Alexander, Lancaster University
• Derek Bradley, Disney Research
• Loic Barthe, Universite de Toulouse
• Theodore Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Eric Paquette, Ecole de technologie superieure
• Minglun Gong, Memorial University
• Richard Zhang, Simon Fraser University
• Bill Kapralos, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Mubbasir Kapadia, University of Pennsylvania
• Pierre Poulin, University of Montreal
• Tobias Isenberg, University of Groningen
• William Cowan, University of Waterloo

Local Contact:

• Mike Jenkin
  York University
  4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
  jenkin [at] cse yorku ca
  

Posters Chair:

• Joel Glanfield
  Dalhousie University
  6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, CANADA
  glanfield [at] cs dal ca
  

Special thanks to all those who have been spreading the word about GI2012, including the interaction-design conference calendar http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/.