Call for Contributions Behaviour Tracking for Adaptive Assistive Environments – BeTAA – A workshop held in the frame of the PETRA conference, July 15-19, 2008, Athens, Greece Paper deadline: 30 March 2008 Automatic behaviour tracking is of particular importance for supporting elderly or mentally impaired persons. Since these persons often aren’t willing or able to talk about their daily activities or to actively keep track of those, it is important to develop assistive technologies that do this for them, that can provide this information to medical staff, carers, family members and other stakeholders as appropriate, and that can act upon this information in an adaptive way. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on behaviour tracking at either the sensor, algorithmic, or application level. We solicit contributions to the following topics: - Technologies for - Location tracking - Gesture and motion tracking - Sensing of affect, emotion, cognitive state - Analysis for - inferring behaviour from multimodal data - Sensor fusion - Feature extraction - Data analysis - Applications for - Behaviour based assistance - Behaviour based environment adaptation - Inclusion of carers and other socially important persons ... particularly in the context of support for elderly or mentally impaired people. Submissions =========== We solicit position papers of up to 8 pages (ACM format) describing ongoing work, project results, visions, or concerns (technological, ethical, societal). Accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings. For details on submitting your paper please check the workshop’s web page via http://www.petrae.org/workshop.htm , the BeTAA workshop tab. Enquiries ========= For any enquiries please contact cpeter [?] igd-r.fraunhofer.de *and* gerald.bieber [?] igd-r.fraunhofer.de Dates ===== Paper submission: March 30, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008 Camera ready papers due: May 20, 2008 Committee ========= Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany Gerald Bieber, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany John Waterworth, Umea University, Umea, Sweden George Demiris, University of Washington, USA Hartmut Strese, VDI/VDE - IT GmbH, Germany Stephen McKenna, University of Dundee, UK Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK Thomas Kirste, Rostock University, Germany Elizabeth Crane, University of Michigan, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christian Peter Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock Human-Centered Interaction Technologies Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059 Rostock, Germany Phone: +49 381 4024-122, Fax: +49 381 4024-199 email: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Problems with the electronic signature? Please load the current root certificate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft into your browser! (http://pki.fraunhofer.de/EN/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------