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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT
INTELLIGENCE: <br>
<br>
Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications <br>
<br>
(HAI'12) <br>
<br>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.few.vu.nl/%7Etbosse/HAI12/">http://www.few.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI12/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Pisa, Italy, November 13, 2012 <br>
<br>
Workshop at the International Joint Conference on Ambient
Intelligence <br>
<br>
(AmI'12) <br>
<br>
<br>
Call for Papers <br>
<br>
<br>
Background <br>
********** <br>
<br>
Recent developments within Ambient Intelligence provide new
possibilities <br>
to contribute to personal care. For example, our car may
monitor us and <br>
warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or take
measures when <br>
we are too drunk to drive. As another example, an elderly
person may wear <br>
a device that monitors his or her wellbeing and offers support
when a <br>
dangerous situation is noticed. <br>
<br>
Such applications can be based on the one hand on
possibilities to acquire <br>
sensor information about humans and their functioning.
However, their full <br>
realisation depends crucially on the availability of adequate
knowledge for <br>
analysis of such information about human functioning. If such
knowledge <br>
about human functioning is computationally available within
devices in the <br>
environment, these systems can show more human-like
understanding and <br>
contribute to personal care based on this understanding. <br>
<br>
In recent years, scientific areas focusing on human
functioning such as <br>
cognitive science, psychology, social sciences, neuroscience
and <br>
biomedical sciences have made substantial progress in
providing an <br>
increased insight in the various physical and mental aspects
of human <br>
functioning. Although much work still remains to be done,
models have been <br>
developed for a variety of such aspects and the way in which
humans <br>
(try to) manage or regulate them. From a more biomedical
angle, examples <br>
of such aspects are (management of) heart functioning,
diabetes, eating <br>
regulation disorders, and HIV-infection. From a more
psychological and <br>
social angle, examples are emotion regulation, emotion
contagion, <br>
attention regulation, addiction management, trust management,
and stress <br>
management. <br>
<br>
If models of human processes and their management are
represented in a <br>
formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human
environment <br>
in systems that monitor the physical and mental state of the
human, then <br>
such ambient systems are able to perform a more in-depth
analysis of the <br>
human's functioning. An ambience is created that has a
human-like <br>
understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised <br>
knowledge from the human-directed disciplines, and that may be
more <br>
effective in assisting humans by offering support in a
knowledgeable <br>
manner that may improve their wellbeing and/or performance,
without <br>
reducing them in their freedom. <br>
<br>
This may concern elderly people, medical patients, but also
humans in <br>
highly demanding circumstances or tasks. For example, the
workspaces of <br>
naval officers may include systems that, among others, track
their eye <br>
movements and characteristics of incoming stimuli (e.g.,
airplanes on a <br>
radar screen), and use this information in a computational
model that is <br>
able to estimate where their attention is focussed at. When it
turns out <br>
that an officer neglects parts of a radar screen, such a
system can either <br>
indicate this to the person, or arrange on the background that
another <br>
person or computer system takes care of this neglected part.
Similarly, <br>
such intelligent assistants may play a role in providing
support to groups <br>
of people, e.g., to help coordinate the evacuation of large
crowds in case <br>
of an emergency, or to optimise the performance of teams in
sports <br>
or in organisations. <br>
<br>
<br>
Aims <br>
**** <br>
<br>
This workshop series addresses multidisciplinary aspects of
Ambient <br>
Intelligence and Computer Science with human-directed
disciplines such as <br>
psychology, social science, neuroscience and biomedical
sciences. The <br>
first workshop in the series (HAI'07) took place at the
European <br>
Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI'07), in Darmstadt,
Germany, <br>
November 2007. The second workshop in the series (HAI'08) took
place at <br>
the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'08), in <br>
Sydney, Australia, December 2008. The third workshop (HAI'09)
took <br>
place at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'09), <br>
in Milan, Italy, September 2009. The fourth workshop (HAI'10)
took place <br>
at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'10), in <br>
Toronto, Canada, August 2010. The fifth workshop in the series
(HAI'11) <br>
took place at the International Conference on Intelligent
Agent Technology <br>
(IAT'11), in Lyon, France, August 2011. The aim of the
workshops is to <br>
get researchers together from these human-directed disciplines
or working <br>
on cross connections of Ambient Intelligence with these
disciplines. <br>
The focus is on the use of knowledge from these disciplines in
Ambient <br>
Intelligence applications, in order to take care of and
support in a <br>
knowledgeable manner humans in their daily living in medical,
psychological <br>
and social respects. <br>
<br>
The workshop can play an important role, for example, to get
modellers in <br>
the psychological, neurological, social or biomedical
disciplines <br>
interested in Ambient Intelligence as a high-potential
application area for <br>
their models, and, for example, get inspiration for problem
areas to be <br>
addressed for further developments in their disciplines. From
the other side, <br>
the workshop may make researchers in Computer Science and
Ambient <br>
and Artificial Intelligence more aware of the possibilities to
incorporate <br>
more substantial knowledge from the psychological,
neurological, social <br>
and biomedical disciplines in ambient intelligence
architectures and applications. <br>
As part of the interaction, specifications may be generated
for experiments <br>
to be addressed by the human-directed sciences. <br>
<br>
<br>
Some of the areas of interest <br>
***************************** <br>
<br>
* human-aware computing <br>
<br>
* computational modelling of cognitive, neurological, social
and <br>
biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence <br>
<br>
* modelling emotion and mood and their regulation <br>
<br>
* modelling contagion of mental states (e.g., beliefs,
intentions or <br>
emotions) <br>
<br>
* social awareness modelling <br>
<br>
* collecting and analysing histories of behaviour <br>
<br>
* computational modelling of mindreading, theory of mind <br>
<br>
* building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence <br>
<br>
* sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body
movements, <br>
gestures <br>
<br>
* sensor information integration methods <br>
<br>
* analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin
analysis with <br>
respect to emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate
analysis <br>
<br>
* environmental modelling <br>
<br>
* situational awareness <br>
<br>
* model-based reasoning and analysis techniques for Ambient
Intelligence <br>
<br>
* responsive and adaptive systems; machine learning <br>
<br>
* cognitive agent models <br>
<br>
* reflective ambient agent architectures <br>
<br>
* multi-agent system architectures for Ambient Intelligence
applications <br>
<br>
* human interaction with devices <br>
<br>
* wearable devices for ambient health and wellness monitoring
<br>
<br>
* brain-computer interfacing <br>
<br>
* analysis and design of applications to care for humans in
need of <br>
support for physical and mental health; e.g., elderly or
psychiatric care, <br>
surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in need of regular
medical or <br>
psychological care, support for psychotherapeutical/self-help
communities <br>
<br>
* analysis and design of applications to support humans in
demanding <br>
circumstances and tasks, such as warfare officers, air traffic
<br>
controllers, crisis and disaster managers, humans in space
missions <br>
<br>
* evaluation studies <br>
<br>
* handling aspects of privacy and security <br>
<br>
* philosophical, ethical, and political aspects of Ambient
Intelligence <br>
<br>
<br>
Submission and Proceedings <br>
************************** <br>
<br>
Submissions should follow the Atlantis Press book series
guidelines (<a
href="http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books/ap-editedwork_LaTeX.zip">LaTeX</a>
or<br>
<a
href="http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books/ap-editedwork_word.zip">MSWord</a>),
and should not exceed 16 pages. Submissions should be sent in
pdf<br>
format, via an e-mail to <a href="mailto:tbosse@cs.vu.nl">Tibor
Bosse</a>. Accepted papers will appear in the<br>
workshop proceedings, as well as in an edited volume of the<br>
<a
href="http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books/ampi.html">Ambient
and Pervasive Intelligence</a> book series, published by
Atlantis Press<br>
and available via Springerlink.<br>
<br>
Registration <br>
************ <br>
<br>
For every accepted paper at least one author has to pay the
special <br>
AmI 2012 workshop registration fee. <br>
<br>
<br>
Important Dates <br>
*************** <br>
<br>
Submission deadline June 15, 2012 <br>
<br>
Notification August 6, 2012 <br>
<br>
Camera ready papers August 27, 2012 <br>
<br>
Workshop November 13, 2012 <br>
<br>
<br>
Coordination Commitee <br>
********************* <br>
<br>
Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing
and <br>
Mathematics) <br>
<br>
Tibor Bosse (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Agent Systems <br>
Research Group) <br>
<br>
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and <br>
Technologies) <br>
<br>
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) <br>
<br>
Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft,
<br>
Man-Machine Interaction) <br>
<br>
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) <br>
<br>
<br>
Programme Committee <br>
******************* <br>
<br>
Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing
and <br>
Mathematics) <br>
<br>
Marc Böhlen (State University of New York, USA) <br>
<br>
Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems
Research Group) <br>
<br>
Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab) <br>
<br>
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and <br>
Technologies) <br>
<br>
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) <br>
<br>
Hao-Hua Chu (National Taiwan University, Ubicomp Lab, Taiwan)
<br>
<br>
Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies) <br>
<br>
Aart van Halteren (Philips Research, Consumer Electronics, The
Netherlands) <br>
<br>
Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction) <br>
<br>
Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Computer Human Adaptive
Interaction, <br>
Australia) <br>
<br>
Peter Leijdekkers (University of Technology Sydney, Mobile
Ubiquitous <br>
Services & Technologies Group, Australia) <br>
<br>
Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for Health Sciences,
Medical <br>
Informatics and Technology) <br>
<br>
Silvia Miksch (Danube University Krems, Department of
Information and <br>
Knowledge Engineering) <br>
<br>
Neelam Naikar (Defence Science and Technology Organisation,
Centre for <br>
Cognitive Work and Safety Analysis, Australia) <br>
<br>
Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Distributed and Ubiquitous
Computing <br>
Lab, Japan) <br>
<br>
Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft,
Man-Machine <br>
Interaction) <br>
<br>
Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Department of Intelligence
Science and <br>
Technology, Japan) <br>
<br>
Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Europe, Media Interaction
Department, <br>
Netherlands) <br>
<br>
Christian Peter (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria;
<br>
Fraunhofer IGD, Rostock, Germany) <br>
<br>
Nitendra Rajput (IBM Research, Telecom Research Innovation
Center, India) <br>
<br>
Tomasz M. Rutkowski (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory
for <br>
Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan) <br>
<br>
Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) <br>
<br>
Maarten Sierhuis (NASA Ames Research Center, Human-Centered
Computing, <br>
USA) <br>
<br>
Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, Brooklyn
College, Dept of <br>
Computer and Information Science) <br>
<br>
Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science
Department) <br>
<br>
Bruce H. Thomas (University of South Australia Mawson Lakes,
Wearable <br>
Computer Lab, Australia) <br>
<br>
Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems
Research Group) <br>
<br>
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