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*** ! Deadline has been extended until July 14th ! ***
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT
INTELLIGENCE:
Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications
(HAI'13)
URL:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI13/
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 17, 2013
Workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology
(IAT'13)
Call for Papers
*** ! PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS
! ***
Background
**********
Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence and Agent
Technology
provide new possibilities to contribute to personal care. For
example, an
intelligent ambient agent in 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
with an
ambient agent that monitors his or her wellbeing and offers
support when a
dangerous situation is noticed.
Such Ambient Intelligence applications can be based on the one
hand on
possibilities to acquire sensor information about humans and their
functioning, but on the other hand, more knowledgeable
applications
crucially depend on the availability of adequate knowledge for
analysis of
such information about human functioning. If such knowledge about
human
functioning is computationally available in intelligent
software/hardware
agents within devices in the environment, these agents 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 agents that monitor the physical and mental state of the human,
then
such ambient agents are able to perform a more in-depth analysis
of the
human's functioning. An agent-based 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 agent-based 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 Agent Systems 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. Since then, the workshop has been held in Sydney,
Australia (hosted by IAT'08), Milan, Italy (IAT'09), Toronto,
Canada (IAT'10),
Lyon, France (IAT'11), and Pisa, Italy (AmI'12). The aim of the
workshop
series 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 agent-based 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
Ambient Intelligence, Agent Systems, and Artificial Intelligence
more
aware of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial
knowledge from
the psychological, neurological, social and biomedical disciplines
in
ambient agent 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
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Papers can be submitted in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE
Computer
Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines, as for the IAT'13
conference). Maximum length for submission is 4 pages, although it
will
be possible to buy one additional page. Double submission is
allowed
(for example, for papers submitted to the main conference IAT'13),
but inclusion in the proceedings requires that the paper was and
is not
published elsewhere. The workshop proceedings will be published by
the
IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshop.
More
submission details will follow at the workshop's Website:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI13/
Registration
************
For every accepted paper at least one author has to register for
the WI /
IAT-2013 conference. There is no separate workshop registration
fee (i.e.,
only one conference registration covers everything).
Important Dates
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Submission deadline July 14, 2013 (EXTENDED)
Notification July 28, 2013
Camera ready papers August 11, 2013
Workshop November 17, 2013
Coordination Commitee
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Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University London, School of
Engineering
and Information Sciences)
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 (Middlesex University London, School of
Engineering
and Information Sciences)
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)
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)
Peter Roelofsma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ambient Assisted
Living Group)
Tomasz M. Rutkowski (University of Tsukuba, 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)
WenZhan Song (Georgia State University, Department of Computer
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)