Thank you for your participation to Enactive 2006 It has been a great pleasure to welcome you in Montpellier and we hope you enjoyed both the conference and your stay here. Results of the Student Researcher Poster Award are available here. You can also download the proceedings of the conference (251 pages, 6 Mo, pdf) by clicking here, and/or the slides from keynote presentations: Warren slides, Yokokohji slides (6.8Mo and 2.4Mo, pdf). Last but not least, the photos from the conference are now on the web! Click here to reach the gallery. We thank you all and hope to see you next year in Grenoble for Enactive / 07. (for further information on Enactive / 07, click here)

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Extending our first two meetings, the aim of the conference is to encourage the emergence of a multidisciplinary research community in a new field of research and on a new generation of human-computer interfaces called Enactive Interfaces.

Enactive Interfaces are inspired by a fundamental concept of “interaction” that has not been exploited by other approaches to the design of human-computer interface technologies. Mainly, interfaces have been designed to present information via symbols, or icons.

In the symbolic approach, information is stored as words, mathematical symbols or other symbolic systems, while in the iconic approach information is stored in the form of visual images, such as diagrams and illustrations.

ENACTIVE knowledge is information gained through perception-action interactions with the environment. Examples include information gained by grasping an object, by hefting a stone, or by walking around an obstacle that occludes our view. It is gained through intuitive movements, of which we often are not aware. Enactive knowledge is inherently multimodal, because motor actions alter the stimulation of multiple perceptual systems. Enactive knowledge is essential in tasks such as driving a car, dancing, playing a musical instrument, modelling objects from clay, performing sports, and so on.

Enactive knowledge is neither symbolic nor iconic. It is direct, in the sense that it is natural and intuitive, based on experience and the perceptual consequences of motor acts.

ENACTIVE / 06 will highlight convergences between the concept of Enaction and the sciences of complexity. Biological, cognitive, perceptual or technological systems are complex dynamical systems exhibiting (in)stability properties that are consequential for the agent-environment interaction. The conference will provide new insights, through the prism of ENACTIVE COMPLEXITY, about human interaction with multimodal interfaces.

More information about the activities of the Enactive Network can be found at www.enactivenetwork.org

   

ENACTIVE / 06 will address the topics of enactive knowledge, enactive multimodal interfaces and interaction, with a specific interest for Enaction & Complexity. Papers are welcome in all branches of the network, including, but not limited to:

Conference proceedings containing all conference documents, including the keynote lectures and the presented papers, will be published and distributed to all participants. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of a peer-review journal in the field of perception and action.

For additional information please send your enquiries to:

• Scientific and Technical - enactive06@enactive2006.org
  
  
• Logistics and Financial - La Sud Compagnie