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WORKSHOP on Cognitive Collaborative Appliances: From Theory to Praxis To be held in ECAI 2008 Patras, Greece 21-22 July 2008 Objectives
From cognitive ergonomics to intelligent assistants, cognitive robotics,
and human-robots interaction there is a wide breadth of theories and
techniques concerned with the development of intelligent artifacts that are
able to exhibit helpful behavior to their (software and human) peers. The ultimate objective is the
development of systems that will act in a seamless and adaptive manner in the
environment of the peers, serving their purpose with respect to the
intentions, goals and restrictions of the peers, as any benevolent partner
would do. We call such systems Cognitive Collaborative Appliances (CCA). Cognitive Collaborative Appliances are systems that have an extended
knowledge of the context in which they act including the knowledge about the
tasks, goals, and constraints of their peers, as well as the ability to
recognize situations, to learn and manage their plans, and to adapt,
exhibiting helpful behavior. Examples of such appliances
include "cognitive TVs", which helps people locate the best TV
programs that fit their mood and preferences, "cognitive wheel
chairs", which helps people with severe limitations to reach a target
location safely and according to their preferences, "cognitive
PDAs", which helps the user to schedule her obligations that maybe
complex and conflicting, and appliances for gaming and entertainment, which
change the scenario based on the user's mood, abilities, and preferences. Scope and Topics
Major issues to be discussed at this workshop include the following: 1. What exactly are the principles upon which we can
develop CCAs? 2. To what extend these principles should drive the
development of the target CCAs? 3. Are domain/context-independent frameworks and
technologies available that can readily be used for the development of CCA
systems? How far are we from having such tools? 4. How should we evaluate the performance of the
available tools and systems? The list of topics within the interest of this workshop includes: -
Computational
frameworks/theories/methodologies for CCAs: state-of-the art, issues and
challenges -
Context awareness
(context sensing, affect/mood recognition, situation/event recognition,
context-sensitive reactivity and plan management) -
User profiling and
system adaptation (including single- and multi-agent system adaptation) -
Decision making
(plan management techniques, reasoning with uncertainty) -
Intelligent
interaction (dialogue management, natural multimodal interfaces, human-robot
interaction) -
Applications
(ambient intelligence, medical therapy, games, entertainment, personal
wellness, etc.) This will be a full-day workshop aiming to bring together people
working on agent-based systems, collaborative planning, distributed and
conditional planning techniques, cognitive scientists, people working on
affective computing, cognitive robotics, human-robots interaction, knowledge
management, intelligent assistive technologies, ambient intelligence,
adaptive and self-organizing systems . Paper Submission
It is
highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting
style specified in ECAI 08 Style Guide. Submissions must not exceed 10
pages in camera-ready format. All submissions must be sent in PDF format. Guidelines
on the format of submissions will be available on the ECAI 2008 Style Guide
page soon. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform
strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2008 Style
Guide. At
least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to
present the paper. All workshop participants are expected to register
for the main ECAI-2008 conference. Papers
can be submitted via the submissions management
system. In case of
any problem please contact CCA organizers in cca@aegean.gr Important Dates
Organizers
George A. Vouros, Maja Pantic Imperial College, UK University of Twente, The Netherlands Email: m.pantic
at imperial dot ac dot uk Program Committee Hamid Aghajan Alexandros Artikis Ioan Buciu Yang Cai Diane J. Cook Washington State University, USA William J.Clansey NASA Ames Research Center, USA Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Hertfordshire, UK Guy Hoffman MIT Media Laboratory, USA Kostas Karpouzis NTUA, Greece Danilo Mandic Imperial College, UK Alex Michailidis University of Torondo, Canada Daniele Nardi Universita di Sapienza di Roma, Italy Anton Nijholt University of Twente, The Netherlands Toyoaki Nishida Kyoto University, Japan Seong-Whan Lee Korea University, Korea Ioannis Patras Queen Mary University of London, UK Charles Rich Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Paul Scerry Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kostas Stathis Royal Holloway, UK Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mohan Trivedi University of California San Diego, USA Marten den Uyl Vicar Vision, The Netherlands |
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