The University of Texas at Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC) is pleased to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2018).

Interactive and Spatial Computing can be described as the science of people having convenient dialogues with intelligent machines/devices while using space as a medium for carrying out these interactions. Considering the broad scope, Interactive and Spatial Computing leverages on a wide range of research activities in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as computational geometry, computer graphics, high-dimensional data analysis, human-computer interaction, information visualization, multimedia, and virtual reality. These activities enhance knowledge and human performance through bioinformatics, physically based modeling and simulation, healthcare, training, and education applications. In turn, these applications usually require knowledge and expertise in other research areas such as medicine, learning/cognitive science, robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

The 3rd International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2018) will address the challenges and opportunities faced in this broad and yet important discipline. We solicit high quality, original research submissions in all areas related to Interactive and Spatial computing, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

Computational geometry
Computer graphics
High-dimensional data analysis
Human-computer interaction
Information Visualization
Multimedia
Virtual reality
Submission Deadlines
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (GMT/UTC‐12:00).

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions should be 8-10 pages in length and should contain substantial scientific contributions to the field of Interactive and Spatial Computing. Each paper should be classifiable as one of the following:

- Research papers should contribute state-of-the-art advances and provide results as evidence.
- Application papers should explain how pre-existing ideas were applied to solve a novel problem.
- System papers should indicate how developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce a novel system and provide evidence of the system’s effectiveness.

All papers should be prepared in the ACM SigConf format. LATEX and Word templates are available here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
If you have any problems with the templates, please contact ACM’s TeX support team at Aptara (acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com). If accepted, you will need to provide the source files and PDFs for ACM to process.

IWISC 2018 will use a double-blind review process, in which both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions must not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity.

Papers must be submitted electronically, by the deadline above, through the EasyChair Conference System:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwisc2018
Note, if you have not used the EasyChair system before, you will need to register for an account by clicking “Signup” in the upper right corner of the website.

Publication
The proceedings of IWISC 2018 will be published by ACM as part of the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. The ISBN number assigned by ACM ICPS to IWISC 2018 is 978-1-4503-5439-4.

General Chair
Prabhakaran Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Publicity Chair
Sergey Bereg, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Technical Program Chair
Ryan P. McMahan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Technical Program Committee
Sergey Bereg, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Robert Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, China
Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA
Sharon Chu, Texas A&M University, USA
Ovidiu Daescu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA
Xiaohu Guo, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
ChengHsin Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Anastasia Kurdia, Tulane University, USA
Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University, China
David Mount, University of Maryland, USA
Benjamin Raichel, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Suneeta Ramaswami, Rutgers University, USA
Raúl Enrique Sánchez Yañez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Maria-Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy
Haim Schweitzer, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ooi Wei Tsang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yusu Wang, Ohio State University, USA
Yin Yang, University of New Mexico, USA
Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Zichun Zhong, Wayne State University, USA