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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT
INTELLIGENCE:
Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
(HAI'12)
URL:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI12/
Pisa, Italy, November 13, 2012
Workshop at the International Joint Conference on Ambient
Intelligence
(AmI'12)
Call for Papers
Background
**********
Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence provide new
possibilities
to contribute to personal care. For example, our car may monitor
us and
warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or take
measures when
we are too drunk to drive. As another example, an elderly person
may wear
a device that monitors his or her wellbeing and offers support
when a
dangerous situation is noticed.
Such applications can be based on the one hand on possibilities
to acquire
sensor information about humans and their functioning. However,
their full
realisation depends crucially on the availability of adequate
knowledge for
analysis of such information about human functioning. If such
knowledge
about human functioning is computationally available within
devices in the
environment, these systems can show more human-like
understanding and
contribute to personal care based on this understanding.
In recent years, scientific areas focusing on human functioning
such as
cognitive science, psychology, social sciences, neuroscience and
biomedical sciences have made substantial progress in providing
an
increased insight in the various physical and mental aspects of
human
functioning. Although much work still remains to be done, models
have been
developed for a variety of such aspects and the way in which
humans
(try to) manage or regulate them. From a more biomedical angle,
examples
of such aspects are (management of) heart functioning, diabetes,
eating
regulation disorders, and HIV-infection. From a more
psychological and
social angle, examples are emotion regulation, emotion
contagion,
attention regulation, addiction management, trust management,
and stress
management.
If models of human processes and their management are
represented in a
formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human
environment
in systems that monitor the physical and mental state of the
human, then
such ambient systems are able to perform a more in-depth
analysis of the
human's functioning. An ambience is created that has a
human-like
understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised
knowledge from the human-directed disciplines, and that may be
more
effective in assisting humans by offering support in a
knowledgeable
manner that may improve their wellbeing and/or performance,
without
reducing them in their freedom.
This may concern elderly people, medical patients, but also
humans in
highly demanding circumstances or tasks. For example, the
workspaces of
naval officers may include systems that, among others, track
their eye
movements and characteristics of incoming stimuli (e.g.,
airplanes on a
radar screen), and use this information in a computational model
that is
able to estimate where their attention is focussed at. When it
turns out
that an officer neglects parts of a radar screen, such a system
can either
indicate this to the person, or arrange on the background that
another
person or computer system takes care of this neglected part.
Similarly,
such intelligent assistants may play a role in providing support
to groups
of people, e.g., to help coordinate the evacuation of large
crowds in case
of an emergency, or to optimise the performance of teams in
sports
or in organisations.
Aims
****
This workshop series addresses multidisciplinary aspects of
Ambient
Intelligence and Computer Science with human-directed
disciplines such as
psychology, social science, neuroscience and biomedical
sciences. The
first workshop in the series (HAI'07) took place at the European
Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI'07), in Darmstadt,
Germany,
November 2007. The second workshop in the series (HAI'08) took
place at
the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'08), in
Sydney, Australia, December 2008. The third workshop (HAI'09)
took
place at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'09),
in Milan, Italy, September 2009. The fourth workshop (HAI'10)
took place
at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'10), in
Toronto, Canada, August 2010. The fifth workshop in the series
(HAI'11)
took place at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology
(IAT'11), in Lyon, France, August 2011. The aim of the workshops
is to
get researchers together from these human-directed disciplines
or working
on cross connections of Ambient Intelligence with these
disciplines.
The focus is on the use of knowledge from these disciplines in
Ambient
Intelligence applications, in order to take care of and support
in a
knowledgeable manner humans in their daily living in medical,
psychological
and social respects.
The workshop can play an important role, for example, to get
modellers in
the psychological, neurological, social or biomedical
disciplines
interested in Ambient Intelligence as a high-potential
application area for
their models, and, for example, get inspiration for problem
areas to be
addressed for further developments in their disciplines. From
the other side,
the workshop may make researchers in Computer Science and
Ambient
and Artificial Intelligence more aware of the possibilities to
incorporate
more substantial knowledge from the psychological, neurological,
social
and biomedical disciplines in ambient intelligence architectures
and applications.
As part of the interaction, specifications may be generated for
experiments
to be addressed by the human-directed sciences.
Some of the areas of interest
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* human-aware computing
* computational modelling of cognitive, neurological, social and
biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence
* modelling emotion and mood and their regulation
* modelling contagion of mental states (e.g., beliefs,
intentions or
emotions)
* social awareness modelling
* collecting and analysing histories of behaviour
* computational modelling of mindreading, theory of mind
* building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence
* sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body
movements,
gestures
* sensor information integration methods
* analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin analysis
with
respect to emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate
analysis
* environmental modelling
* situational awareness
* model-based reasoning and analysis techniques for Ambient
Intelligence
* responsive and adaptive systems; machine learning
* cognitive agent models
* reflective ambient agent architectures
* multi-agent system architectures for Ambient Intelligence
applications
* human interaction with devices
* wearable devices for ambient health and wellness monitoring
* brain-computer interfacing
* analysis and design of applications to care for humans in need
of
support for physical and mental health; e.g., elderly or
psychiatric care,
surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in need of regular
medical or
psychological care, support for psychotherapeutical/self-help
communities
* analysis and design of applications to support humans in
demanding
circumstances and tasks, such as warfare officers, air traffic
controllers, crisis and disaster managers, humans in space
missions
* evaluation studies
* handling aspects of privacy and security
* philosophical, ethical, and political aspects of Ambient
Intelligence
Submission and Proceedings
**************************
Submissions should follow the
Springer
LNCS guidelines for proceedings,
and should not exceed 16 pages. Submissions should be sent in
pdf format,
via an e-mail to
Tibor Bosse.
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings, as well as in an edited volume of the
Ambient
and Pervasive Intelligence book series, published by
Atlantis Press
and available via Springerlink.
Registration
************
For every accepted paper at least one author has to pay the
special
AmI 2012 workshop registration fee.
Important Dates
***************
Submission deadline June 15, 2012
Notification August 6, 2012
Camera ready papers August 27, 2012
Workshop November 13, 2012
Coordination Commitee
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Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing
and
Mathematics)
Tibor Bosse (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent
Systems
Research Group)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and
Technologies)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft,
Man-Machine Interaction)
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing)
Programme Committee
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Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing
and
Mathematics)
Marc Böhlen (State University of New York, USA)
Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems
Research Group)
Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and
Technologies)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University, Ubicomp Lab, Taiwan)
Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies)
Aart van Halteren (Philips Research, Consumer Electronics, The
Netherlands)
Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction)
Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Computer Human Adaptive
Interaction,
Australia)
Peter Leijdekkers (University of Technology Sydney, Mobile
Ubiquitous
Services & Technologies Group, Australia)
Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for Health Sciences, Medical
Informatics and Technology)
Silvia Miksch (Danube University Krems, Department of
Information and
Knowledge Engineering)
Neelam Naikar (Defence Science and Technology Organisation,
Centre for
Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis, Australia)
Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Distributed and Ubiquitous
Computing
Lab, Japan)
Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft,
Man-Machine
Interaction)
Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Department of Intelligence
Science and
Technology, Japan)
Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Europe, Media Interaction
Department,
Netherlands)
Christian Peter (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria;
Fraunhofer IGD, Rostock, Germany)
Nitendra Rajput (IBM Research, Telecom Research Innovation
Center, India)
Tomasz M. Rutkowski (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory
for
Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing)
Maarten Sierhuis (NASA Ames Research Center, Human-Centered
Computing,
USA)
Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, Brooklyn College,
Dept of
Computer and Information Science)
Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science
Department)
Bruce H. Thomas (University of South Australia Mawson Lakes,
Wearable
Computer Lab, Australia)
Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research
Group)