Daniel Gatica-Perez receives ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award 2022

The award was presented at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Bengaluru, India, on November 9, 2022.

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez, head of the Social Computing Group at Idiap, received the ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award 2022. This senior award is presented “to a senior scientist who has made innovative, long-lasting, and influential contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems." Prof. Gatica-Perez gave a keynote talk at the conference entitled Focus on People: Five Questions from Human-Centered Computing, where he “shared experiences and views on how audio-visual and ubiquitous research on social interaction has evolved over the past two decades, and how future research with a people-first focus calls for commitment and action for a long-term alignment with societal needs and nature’s limits.”

 

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- ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction website