Klara Nahrstedt (SIGMM Chair) Wolfgang Effelsberg (SIGMM Vice Chair and Treasurer) Nevenka Dimitrova (SIGMM Conference Chair) Detailed SIGMM Report submitted to ACM for can be found at SIGMM Business Meeting October 29, 2008

Current Status and Future Activities SIGMM Venues CACM Participation New Award New Preservation Efforts Organization of SIGMM Retreat Proposed Results and Feedback from SIGMM Retreat Call for Volunteers Membership

SIGMM Venues New SIGMM E-Newsletter: Started January 2008, Editor-in-Chief: Carsten Griwotz Push-based mode of SIGMM Information Dissemination Dr. Griwotz will talk more about this venue shortly Major Activities with SIGMM Web Site, Editor-in-Chief: Balakrishnan Prabhakaran Pull-based mode of SIGMM Information Dissemination Funding provided by ACM SIGMM to help with new features and maintenance and to be continues Dr. Prabhakaran will talk more about this venue shortly ACM TOMCCAP: Editor-in-Chief: Nicolas Georganas Dr. Geoganas will talk more about this venue shortly Springer Multimedia Systems Journal: Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Plagemann Strongly connected with SIGMM community Dr. Plagemann will talk more about this venue shortly

SIGMM Venues SIGMM Sponsored/Co-Sponsored Conferences ACM Multimedia 2008 ACM NOSSDAV 2008 ACM Multimedia & Security 2008 ACM MIR/CIVR Conferences have SIGMM In-Cooperation Status

CACM Editor-in-Chief: Moshe Vardi from Rice University New ACM Initiative to increase visibility of SIGs by every year publishing the best ideas from SIGs Venues Only selected SIGs are participating (went through proposal stage) and SIGMM is part of this Initiative SIGMM CACM Committee Technical Chairs of Sponsored SIGMM Conferences and Workshops of each year Selection Process Once a year Select the best idea in SIGMM venues to put it forward to CACM Deadline: September 30 each year

Award New SIGMM Technical Achievement Award for significant and lasting technical contributions to SIGMM area First time awarded this year - Winner Professor Ralf Steinmetz Awards Committee: 3 senior SIGMM members Nomination Process: Deadline: May 1; Decision: End of June; Awarded: ACM Multimedia Conference Application Material: Statement of candidate’s accomplishments, description of significance (2 pages) Nominees CV 3 endorsement letters Concise statement (one sentence) of the achievements Award Description can be found: ; watch SIGMM e-newsletter for call for nomination in March/April

ACM Preservation Efforts Major Efforts on-going in ACM to preserve Important conference talks such as keynotes and best papers Past conference programs/websites History of SIGs SIGMM Efforts First informal preservation efforts have been done at ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany Now History preservation chair as part of ACM Multimedia 2008 Organizational Committee (and after that every year) Matthias Hollick is our first chair Recording of keynotes and best paper awards session Recorded Videos are searchable and in ACM Digital Library

SIGMM Competition for New SIGMM Logo SIGMM Needs new Logo – much more multimedia specific (see current logo at Call for new Logo Design Deadline: January 15, 2009 Winner Reward: $500 Submit your designs to SIGMM Chair, Klara Nahrstedt Selection Committee: SIG Officers and Executive Committee

SIGMM Retreat – October (Proposed Results – Need Feedback from Community) Elected SIG Officers: Chair, Vice-chair (with role of treasurer). Conference Chair; Elected Term: change from 2 to 3 years Term Limits: Each SIG Office can serve up to two terms Establishment of Executive Committee Consisting of: SIG Officers, past SIGMM Chair, Editors-in-Chief for SIGMM Publication Venues (TOMCCAP, MMSJ, SIGMM E-Newsletter, SIGMM Web), One General Chair of ACM Multimedia of that year Appointment of Two Directors-at-Large Director-at-Large for Education Director-at-Large for Arts

SIGMM Retreat – October (Proposed Results – Need Feedback from Community) Appoint one time Committee to study industry/academia impact study Apply in January 2009 to ACM for three new awards Best SIGMM PhD Thesis SIGMM Rising Star Award (for researchers 35 and younger) SIGMM Distinguished Service Award If the awards pass through ACM, watch for call for nominations in June/July 2009 time-frame in SIGMM e-Newsletter and SIGMM Website!!! New Activities in SIGMM Web and E-Newsletter (see next talks) – e.g., publish e-newsletter in ACM DL

SIGMM Retreat Go After New Multimedia Communities The new communities that we should consider /invite in SIGMM (topics in our venues) – Multimedia in Health care, assisted technologies - Multimedia for disabled – Ubiquituous multimedia – Multimedia security and privacy – Multimedia and social communities – Action: Put these topics into CFP for SIGMM Venues, on the web site (Chairs of ACM MM’09 and SIGMM Web EiC)

Next Steps Need Dedicated Researchers Volunteers for Director-at-large for Education Director-at-large for Arts Need Dedicated Young Researchers Volunteers for Web Editorial Board E-Newsletter Editorial Board Need Dedicated Researchers Volunteers for Committee to do one-time study Industry/Academia Impact in Multimedia Awards Committees (New Awards)

SIGMM Membership Currently 423 SIGMM Members Join SIGMM for: $20 professional (per year) and $15 students (per year) Receiving SIGMM e-newsletter Access to some SIGMM web site information for SIGMM members only (edu material, …..) Discount for student registrations in future ACM Multimedia conferences Funding of SIGMM-related awards Funding of ACM Digital Library to include SIGMM Venues publications Funding of SIGMM Web staff person to maintain and secure our SIGMM web server Funding of current/future SIGMM professional meetings (editorial board meetings, retreats, …)