CALL
FOR PAPERS
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.
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.