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Special session on modelling and support of cognitive and affective human processes

9-12 June 2012
Dalian, China

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   IEA/AIE 2012 Special Session on Modeling and Support of Cognitive
   and Affective Human Processes

   http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mhoogen/iea-aie-2011/

   9 June - 12 June 2012
   Dalian, China

   Proceedings Published in Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: January 6, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2012
Conference dates: June 9 - June 12 2012

SESSION THEME
To support humans in demanding circumstances it is often required that an 
intelligent system application has some form of human-awareness. This means 
that the system has a form of intelligence that enables it to analyze and tune 
itself to the human's cognitive and affective states and processes, such as 
attention, level of stress, or exhaustion. To design such intelligent 
applications in the first place the system needs knowledge of the relevant 
human processes, and possesses methods to use this knowledge to become 
human-aware: to estimate and analyze the human's states and processes. 
Furthermore, based on such human-awareness the system is able to tune its 
actions and interactions with the human. In this track we are looking for 
research papers that explore building blocks or full applications for such 
intelligent systems. All kinds of aspects of cognitive and affective human 
processes in all areas of life and/or work may be relevant. For example, the 
papers can address the analysis and modeling of such human processes, or 
models, architecture, or interfaces to support human cognitive and/or affective 
processes. Hereby, the (intended) application system does not necessarily need 
to incorporate an explicit model of human processes, but can also be based on 
heuristics developed by using formalized models of human functioning.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
* cognitive agent models
* user modeling
* human machine interaction
* coping with affective phenomena, such as negative emotions and moods
* contagion within teams
* shared mental models: shared between human and software agents
* awareness of forms of social interaction
* models for persuasion & motivation
* mutual understanding in cooperation in teams (where teams can consist of 
humans, of robots/agents, or both)
* the influence of values and norms on human and team functioning

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to electronically submit their paper, written in English, 
of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or 
innovative practical applications relevant for the special session.

Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted 
as SHORT PAPERS representing work in progress or suggesting possible research 
directions.

Submitted papers should in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 
format and can be submitted via EasyChair (see 
http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/sub.htm for instructions ) or via 
email (mhoogen@cs.vu.nl).

Accepted papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings of the 
IEA/AIE 2012 conference, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in 
Artificial Intelligence series.

SESSION ORGANIZERS
Mark Hoogendoorn, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Catholijn M. Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan Treur, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CONTACT INFORMATION
All queries relating to the special session should be directed to the session 
organizers via mhoogen@cs.vu.nl .

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Dr. Mark Hoogendoorn
Assistant Professor
VU University Amsterdam
Department of Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
tel. +31 20 598 7772
mob. +31 6 539 22626
fax. +31 20 598 7653
url. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mhoogen