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2nd Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI08)

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, but inclusion in the
proceedings requires that the paper was and is not published elsewhere.
For submissions to the main conference IAT'08, it is possible to indicate
explicitly that the paper should be considered for the workshop in case of
rejection for the main conference. The workshop proceedings will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
workshop. More submission details are available 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)