9 December 2008
Sydney, Australia
SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: Agent Technology, Human-Oriented Knowledge and Applications (HAI'08) URL: http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAI08wsCfP.htm Sydney, Australia, December 9, 2008 (Financial support for travelling is available, see below) Workshop at the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08) Call for Papers 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 generates an action 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 devices in the environment, such ambient 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, 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, attention regulation, addiction management, trust management, stress management, and criminal behaviour management. If models of human processes and their management are represented in a formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human environment monitoring 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 ambience is created that has a human-like understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised knowledge from the human-directed disciplines, and that may more effectively affect the state of humans by undertaking in a knowledgeable manner actions that improve their wellbeing and performance. This may concern elderly people and 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. 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. 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 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 Intelligence 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 * human-aware computing * computational modelling of cognitive, neurological, social and biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence * modelling emotion and mood and their regulation * 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 strucural 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 and ethical aspects Submission and Proceedings Papers can be submitted in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines, as for the IAT'08 conference). Expected length is from 3 pages (short papers) to 7 pages (regular papers). Double submission is allowed (for example, for papers submitted to the main conference IAT'08), 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/~treur/HAI08wsCfP.htm Financial Support for Travelling For those presenters at the workshop for whom excessive travelling costs may cause problems, financial support is available. This support may take the form that for a flight ticket above 400 euro, maximally 75% of the total costs of the ticket can be refunded by the workshop organisation (assuming a ticket of reasonable price for the given distance). After acceptance of a paper, this support can be requested for one author of the paper. Registration For every accepted paper at least one author has to register for the WI / IAT-2008 conference. There is no separate workshop registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). Important Dates Submission deadline July 30, 2008 Notification September 3, 2008 Camera ready papers September 30, 2008 Workshop December 9, 2008 Coordination Commitee Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics) Tibor Bosse (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) Jan Treur (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Programme Committee Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics) Marc Bhlen (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) Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction) Anthony Jameson (DFKI, Human-Computer 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) Jose del Millan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne EPFL, Research Institute IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland) 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) Maja Pantic (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction; Imperial College, Department of Computing, Netherlands/UK) Steffen Pauws (Philips Research Europe, Media Interaction Department, Netherlands) Christian Peter (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock, Human-Centered Interaction Technologies, Germany) 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)