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Call for Papers
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Symposium on
AFFECTIVE SMART ENVIRONMENTS
in the frame of the
2007 AISB Convention
(Artificial and Ambient Intelligence)
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/ase07.html
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Deadline for papers: January 8, 2007
Motivation
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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an emerging and popular research field with
the goal to create "smart" environments that react in an
attentive, adaptive and proactive way to the presence and activities of
humans, in order to provide the services that inhabitants of
these environments request or are presumed to need.
AmI is increasingly affecting our everyday lives: computers are
already embedded in numerous everyday objects like TV sets, kitchen
appliances, or central heating, and soon they will be networked,
with each other as well as with personal ICT devices like organizers or
cell phones. Communication with ambient computing resources will be
ubiquitous, bio-sensing will allow devices to perceive the
presence and state of users and to understand their needs and goals in
order to improve their general living conditions and actual
well-being.
According to the 'Computers As Social Actors' paradigm, interaction with
technology is driven by rules that derive from social
psychology. These aspects become even more relevant when media are not
boxed in a desktop computer but are integrated pervasively in
everyday life environments. An Affective Smart Environment should be able
to grasp these factors and adapt its behavior accordingly.
Imagining and designing this kind of environment requires combining
knowledge and methods of ubiquitous and pervasive computing with
those of affective and social computing. And as yet there exists
little in the way of coherent models of interaction on which to base our
design approaches to such environments.
Objective
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This symposium is an interdisciplinary meeting focused on methods
and techniques for integrating affective and social factors in
ambient intelligence. In particular, we will solicit original papers
dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:
- non invasive methods for sensing, recognizing and modeling the
emotional state of users in 'natural', everyday situations;
- methods and models for profiling emotion information;
- methods for building the inhabitants' group profiles from their
individual models;
- methods for learning long-term features, from tracing of
interaction histories;
- methods for inferring how to adapt the environment to the
recognized situation;
- methods for enforcing the sense of trust in the environment;
- theoretical approaches to the design of ambiently intelligent
interaction.
The symposium will also welcome applications to the smart
environment of methods and tools which were originally thought for other
domains, but may highly enhance the ambient intelligence; for instance:
- Affective Conversational Agents;
- Social Robots;
- Natural language and speech-based dialog simulators.
Submissions Details
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We welcome and encourage submissions of original papers. Papers
should be written in English, formatted according to ECAI style
which can be obtained from
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.pdf
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.zip.
Papers should not exceed 8 pages including figures, references, etc. and
should be sent to ase07@....
For any information please do not hesitate to contact us using the same
email address.
Proceedings
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Proceedings will have an ISBN and will be available at the symposium.
Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 08 January 2007
Notification of acceptance: 05 February 2007
Camera ready copy due: 23 February 2007
Symposium date: April 2007 (see AISB’07 web site)
Organizers:
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Berardina Nadja De Carolis University of Bari - Italy
Christian Peter Fraunhofer IGD Rostock - Germany
John Waterworth Umeå University - Sweden
Scientific committee:
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Elisabeth Andre University of Augsburg - Germany
Russell Beale University of Birmingham - UK
Gerald Bieber Fraunhofer IGD - Germany
Andreas Butz University of Munich - Germany
Marco Combetto Microsoft Research Cambridge - UK
Lola Cañamero University of Hertfordshire - UK
Fiorella de Rosis University of Bari - Italy
Rino Falcone ISTC-CNR - Italy
Thomas Kirste University of Rostock - Germany
Catherine Pelachaud Université de Paris 8 - France
Paolo Remagnino Kingston University - UK
Thomas Rist University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and
DFKI- Germany
Massimo Zancanaro ITC IRST – Italy
Home page of Affective Smart Environment Symposium:
http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/ase07.html
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Berardina Nadja De Carolis
Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Bari - Italy
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