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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">First
International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">URL:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAwsCfP.htm </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Darmstadt, Germany, November 10, 2007</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Workshop at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
(AmI’07)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Call
for Papers</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New">Background</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">The
environment in which humans operate has an important influence on their
wellbeing and performance. For example, a comfortable workspace may improve the
productivity of an employee, and an attentive partner or acquaintance may
contribute to preventing more severe health problems by early detection. As
another example, our car may warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or
when we are too drunk to drive. Developments within Ambient Intelligence provide
possibilities to contribute to such personal care. This can be based on the one
hand on possibilities to acquire sensor information about humans and their
functioning, but on the other hand, more far-reaching 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 devices in the environment, these devices can
show more human-like understanding and contribute to such personal care based on
this understanding.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">In
recent years, scientific areas focusing on humans 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.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">If
such models of human processes and their management are represented in a formal
and computational format, and incorporated in the human environment in devices
that monitor the physical and mental state of the human, then such devices are
able to perform a more in depth analysis of the human’s functioning. This can
result in an environment that has a human-like understanding of humans and that
may more efffectively affect the state of humans by undertaking in a
knowledgeable manner actions that improve their wellbeing and performance. 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. In applications like this, an
ambience is created that has a more human-like understanding of humans, based on
computationally formalised knowledge from the human-directed disciplines. For
example, this may concern elderly people, criminals and psychiatric
patients, but also, as the example shows, humans in highly demanding
circumstances or tasks.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Aims</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">This
workshop addresses multidisciplinary aspects of Ambient Intelligence with
human-directed disciplines such as psychology, social science, neuroscience and
biomedical sciences. The aim is to get people together from these 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 Computer Science, and Artificial and Ambient Intelligence more
aware of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial knowledge from the
psychological, neurological social and biomedical disciplines in Ambient
Intelligence architectures and applications, and may offer problem
specifications that can be addressed by the human-directed sciences.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Some
of the areas of interest </FONT></P>
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computational modelling of psychological, neurological, social and biomedical
processes for Ambient Intelligence</FONT></P>
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collecting and analysing histories of behaviour </FONT></P>
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computational modelling of mind reading, Theory of Mind </FONT></P>
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building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence </FONT></P>
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sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body movements,
gestures</FONT></P>
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analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin analysis with respect to
emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate analysis </FONT></P>
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environmental modelling and awareness</FONT></P>
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analysis of applications to care of humans in need of support for physical and
mental health; e.g., elderly or</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New">psychiactric care, surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in
need of regular medical or psychological care, support for
psychotherapeutical/selfhelp communities</FONT></P>
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analysis 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.</FONT></P>
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responsive and adaptive systems; agent system approaches </FONT></P>
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human interaction with devices </FONT></P>
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handling aspects of privacy and security; philosophical and ethical
aspects</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Submission and Proceedings</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Papers can be submitted of at most 18 pages in Springer LNCS
format (as for the AmI’07 conference). Proceedings will be available at the
workshop. The intention is to realise publication of extended postproceedings as
a book on the workshop theme by a recognized publisher after the workshop. More
submission details will follow at the workshop’s Website:
http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAwsCfP.htm.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Important Dates</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Submission Deadline<SPAN
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</SPAN>August 1, 2007</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Notification of Acceptance<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>September 20, 2007</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New">Camera ready papers<SPAN
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</SPAN>October 25, 2007</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New">Workshop<SPAN
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</SPAN>November 10, 2007</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Coordination Commitee</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Tibor
Bosse<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Cristiano Castelfranchi <SPAN
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(CNR Rome,
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Mark
Neerincx <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(TNO Human
Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Fariba Sadri <SPAN
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(Imperial
College, Department of Computing)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Jan
Treur<SPAN
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style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(contact person,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group)</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New">Programme Committee (partly to be confirmed)</FONT></P>
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face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
face="Courier New">Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University, Department of
Behavioural Sciences), Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of
Computing and Mathematics), Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent
Systems Research Group), Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab),
Nick Cassimatis(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science
Department), Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies), James L. Crowley (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Perception and
Integration for Smart Spaces Group), Pim Cuijpers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Clinical Psychology), Henk Elffers (Institute for Criminology and Law; Antwerp
University, Faculty of Law), Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and Technologies), Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media
Interaction), Ingrid Heynderickx (Philips Research Netherlands), Anthony Jameson
(DFKI, Human-Computer Interaction), Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for
Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology), Isaac Marks (King’s
College London, Institute of Psychiatry/Maudsley Hospital), Silvia Miksch
(Danube University Krems, Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering),
Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Policy Modelling),
Mark Neerincx<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>(TNO
Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction), Fariba
Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing), Matthias Scheutz (University
of Notre Dame, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory), Elizabeth Sklar
(City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Dept of Computer and Information
Science), Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science
Department), Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research
Group), Robert L. West (Carleton University, Department of Cognitive
Science)</FONT></P></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>