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REMINDER: Censimento gruppi di ricerca e aggiornamento sito web SIGCHI Italy

by Andrea Antonio CANTONE

Cari tutti, vi ricordo che stiamo conducendo una nuova edizione del censimento dei gruppi di ricerca attivi nell'area Human-Computer Interaction in Italia e dei corsi attualmente erogati. I risultati saranno pubblicati sul sito di SIGCHI Italy. La scadenza è Lunedì *1 luglio 2024*. Trovate la situazione attuale ai seguenti link: - didattica: https://sigchi-italy.github.io/sigchi-italy/courses/ - ricerca: https://sigchi-italy.github.io/sigchi-italy/research_groups/ Vi preghiamo di controllare che le informazioni riguardo il vostro gruppo e i vostri corsi siano aggiornate. Nel caso fossero necessarie modifiche potete compilare il seguente form: https://forms.gle/TVCFSgK4BagQnaZH6 Se avete delle domande, potete inviare un'e-mail a: salvatore.andolina(a)polimi.it o alberto.monge(a)polito.it o acantone(a)unisa.it Grazie per il vostri contributo e buon weekend! -- Andrea Antonio Cantone Ph.D. Student HCI-UsE Lab Member Department of Computer Science University of Salerno via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-antonio-cantone-151bb319b/ e-mail: *acantone(a)unisa.it <acantone(a)unisa.it>*

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[XAI Hackathon] [5-6 July] Extended Deadline XAI Hackathon – Limited Registration

by Andrea Beretta

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** *** Extended deadline *** We are excited to announce the first XAI Hackathon <http://xai-hackathon.isti.cnr.it/> supported by the FAIR <https://fondazione-fair.it/> PNRR and XAI <https://xai-project.eu/> projects! This event is open to young researchers, PhD candidates, and Master's students with some background knowledge in Explainable Artificial Intelligence. Challenge Use the XAI-LIB <https://github.com/kdd-lab/XAI-Lib> to integrate XAI techniques into a ML prediction pipeline and improve transparency in black-box AI decisions. Specifically, this involves - enhancing the prediction task with various explanation types (e.g., instance-based or rule-based); - assessing the impact of explanations on model transparency under different critical conditions (model performs well or not); - developing a use-case scenario that showcases the benefits of explanations. Final project evaluation will be based on: - The variety and effectiveness of the explanations used; - Assessment of the robustness, validity, and quality of the explanations; - A use-case scenario enriched with progressive explanation steps. Event Highlights - Location: Officine Garibaldi, Via Vincenzo Gioberti, 39, 56124 Pisa PI - Date: July 5-6, 2024 - Website: http://xai-hackathon.isti.cnr.it/ - Schedule: To be announced - Registration: Free of charge, but mandatory! - Teams: maximum of 3 people Why Participate? - Prizes: The event offers significant cash prizes—*€2,500* for the winning team, *€1,000* for the runner-up, and *€500* rewarding up to *three teams in third place*. - Professional Support: Participants will benefit from technical support and mentorship provided by senior researchers from the KDD lab in Pisa. Registration (Deadline: 28th June) - Secure your spot: The Hackathon is restricted to 10 teams. Early registration is strongly encouraged as spots are expected to fill rapidly. - Please confirm your participation by filling via this Google Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyAcfCsN50pJRxVNxKbA2Yp3Ub9z7uGCv…> by June 28th! If you have any queries, or have any difficulties completing the registration form, please email our dedicated mailbox: hackathon(a)xai-project.eu.

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CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '25) - ACM SAC 2025

by Salvatore Gatto

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘25) Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025 Part of the 40thACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘25) https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025 <https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/ <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> Theme and Scope Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility. This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with different points of view, taking into account specific technological constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called “curb cut effect” can be applied to any technological and digital context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs of people with disabilities. We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: * Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market. * Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc: e-services and content often require specific technologies, being bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while richness and quantity of content may affect the users’ ability to process information. * Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting, etc. * Accessibility of games. * AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization (i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and special needs) and “enabler” (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the creation of accessible applications). Submission Guidelines We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. The track accepts full papers (max 8 pages), posters (max 2 pages), and SRC abstracts (max 2 pages). Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing. Papers that will receive high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standard) but will not be accepted due to space limitations can be invited for poster session. Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in excluding the papers from the ACM Digital Library. See the track website https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025 <https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025>for more details. Important Dates * September 20, 2024, 11:59 PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts * October 30, 2024: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts * November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers * December 6, 2024: Authors registration due Organization * Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua * Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna * Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE * Catia Prandi, University of Bologna Submission Portal Please submit your contribution through our online submission portal available at https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php>(regular papers) and https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php>(SRC abstracts). Contact us For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact gaggi(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>. We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 2025 Conference!

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Call for papers for Intelligent User Interfaces 2025 (ACM IUI’25)

by Simret Gebreegziabher

We welcome you to submit your high-quality work to IUI’25 that will take place in Cagliari, Italy, on March 24-27, 2025! Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: October 2nd, 2024 Paper submission deadline: October 9th, 2024 Please visit the website for more information: https://iui.acm.org/2025/ The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premiere venue where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques and systems. Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. We strongly believe that diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems - Explainable AI methods - Democratization of AI - Persuasive technologies in IUI - Privacy and security of IUI - Recommendations in IUI - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - User modelling for intelligent interfaces - User-adaptive interaction and personalization - IUI for crowd computing and human computation - Human control in daily automations Computational innovation - Interactive machine learning - Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging - Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems - Generative models - Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning - Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI Innovative User Interfaces - Affective interfaces - Intelligent aesthetic interfaces - Intelligent collaborative interfaces - Intelligent AR/VR interfaces - Intelligent visualization and visual analytics - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent tangible interfaces - Intelligent conversational interfaces Intelligent Multimodal Systems - Embodied agents - Multimodal AI assistants - Intelligent multimodal interfaces - Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces - User experiments and studies - Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) - Meta-analysis - Mixed-methods evaluations Intelligent Applications - Education and learning-related technologies - Healthcare and wellbeing - Automotive - Assistive technologies - Entertainment - Workplace happiness - Social media - Information retrieval - Internet of things (IoT) - Smart homes - Generative AI Large Language Models - End-user interaction with LLMs and Multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image generation) - LLMs in the workplace - Trustworthy LLMs - Bias in LLMs - The effects of LLMs use on creative tasks - Personalized user interaction with LLMs - Prompt Engineering - User control and steering of LLMs (e.g. RLHF) Looking forward to your submissions! IUI’25 Technical Programme Chairs Luis Leiva, Davide Spano, Katrien Verbert program2025(a)iui.acm.org IUI’25 General Chairs Toby Li, Fabio Paterno, Kaisa Väänänen chairs2025(a)iui.acm.org

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CfP: RO-MAN 2024 Workshop on Weighing the benefits of Autonomous Robot persoNalisation (WARN)

by Rezzani Andrea (Student ENG 21)

RO-MAN 2024 Call for Paper: 2nd International Workshop Weighing the benefits of Autonomous Robot persoNalisation (WARN) https://warn-ws.github.io/ 26th August 2024, in Pasadena, California & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Submission deadline: *July 1st 2024* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=warn24 If you have questions, please send us an e-mail at warn-workshop(a)proton.me<mailto:warn-workshop@proton.me> =========================================== *Details* Personalisation in human-robot interaction (HRI) has demonstrated significant advantages in numerous scenarios and is becoming a dominant direction in the field. This workshop explores the multiple aspects of personalisation and behavioural adaptation in social HRI, highlighting the advantages and potential disadvantages. The workshop aims to explore how personalisation impacts interactions and users. While robots designed for end-to-end social interactions can enhance trust and rapport, they can also create filter bubbles or amplify cultural bias and stereotypes. *The Program* The workshop will be hosted in hybrid mode to engage the entire community. The workshop programme will alternate interactive activities with panel sessions and keynote presentations. We strongly encourage multidisciplinary discussion and invite researchers from various disciplines, including engineering, computer science, social science, psychology, philosophy, and law. *Keynote speaker* • Lauriel Riek - UC San Diego *Panellists* • Bahar Irfan - KTH Royal Institute of Technology • Barbara Bruno - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) • Elaine Short - Tufts University • Emmanuel Senft - Idiap Research Institute • Maja Mataric - USC Viterbi School of Engineering • Ryan Calo - University of Washington • Vicky Charisi - European Commission • Wafa Johal - University of Melbourne =========================================== Andrea Rezzani anrezzani(a)unibz.it Faculty of Engineering Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Dominikanerplatz 3 - piazza Domenicani, 3 39100 - Italy UniBZ

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MedCHI Workshop a womENcourage

by Maristella Matera

Carissimi, sperando di fare cosa gradita, vi annunciamo il programma del workshop organizzato dal Mediterranean CHI (MedCHI) in occasione della conferenza womENcourage. La conferenza si svolgerà a Madrid dal 26 al 28 Giugno 2024 (https://womencourage.acm.org/2024/program/). Il Workshop si svolgerà la mattina del 27, dalle 11 alle 13 e si concentrerà sull'impatto della ricerca in HCI sulla valorizzazione della cultura e delle comunità del Mediterraneo, con particolare attenzione all'inclusività e alla parità di genere. Di seguito trovate i dettagli del programma: * 11:00 - 11:10: Introduzione e benvenuto * 11.10 - 11.30: Sessione interattiva (con partecipazione dell’audience) * 11.30 - 12.30: Panel: “The role of HCI research in promoting gender-inclusive computing practices and technologies”. Interverranno Antinisca Di Marco, Tania Di Mascio e Laura Tarantino (Università dell’Aquila). Styliani Kleanthous (CYENS CoE, Cyprus), Barbara Crosetto (Università Carlos III, Madrid), Monica Landoni (Università della Svizzera Italiana) * 12.30-13.00: Discussione con i partecipanti su possibili iniziative che il MedCHI potrà successivamente promuovere. Lasciatemi ringraziare Antinisca, Tania e Laura per la loro disponiblità a condividere le esperienze e i risultati della loro ricerca in rappresentanza della nostra comunità italiana. Invitiamo chi di voi è già iscritto alla conferenza a partecipare al workshop in presenza. Per chi volesse partecipare online, abbiamo predisposto una stanza virtuale in Zoom: https://polimi-it.zoom.us/j/94570235360. Speriamo di poter contare sulla vostra partecipazione per arricchire la discussione su temi cruciali per la nostra comunità. Non esitate a contattarci per ulteriori informazioni o domande. Un caro saluto a tutti! Maristella e Giuliana (per il comitato Mediterranean CHI).

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Deadline extension - Call for bids to host MobileHCI 2026

by Fabio Paternò

Deadline extension - Call for bids to host MobileHCI 2026 In short: Are you interested in bidding to host MobileHCI 2026? The deadline for bids has been extended to August 16th, 2024. In more detail: On behalf of the steering committee for the MobileHCI conference series we are inviting bids to host MobileHCI 2026. MobileHCI’24 (https://mobilehci.acm.org/2024/index.php) will be in Melbourne, Australia. Details of the conference series can be found here: http://mobilehci.acm.org/sc/ MobileHCI is the forum that provides academics and practitioners a valuable place to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. Our conference series brings together academics, designers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss the challenges and future of people interacting with and through technologies, applications, and services in a mobile world. The exact nature of a bid can of course include and seek to extend or focus this as the proposers envisage. For the contents of the bids, please see below. We are paying special attention to the diversity (gender, cultural, economic, etc.) both in the organizing committee and in how the organisers plan to attract diverse audience to MobileHCI. Bids should be sent to marcos.serrano(a)irit.fr <mailto:marcos.serrano@irit.fr> by ** August 16th, 2024 **. After receiving bids, the MobileHCI steering committee will review and vote on the bids and everyone who submits will be given the decision with feedback in the summer. If you have any questions please feel free to contact any of the steering committee members. Information about the MobileHCI bidding process can be found at the International Steering Committee web pages here: https://mobilehci.acm.org/sc/bidding.html The form of the bid is fairly open but we do need the following information in order to make an informed decision: * The initial planned dates. MobileHCI has typically been held in September. For 2026, we are suggesting either end of August or end of September. * Intended location for the conference * How will the conference be organised * Will there be program chairs who manage the entire program or only papers chairs who manage the papers while the conference chairs manage the conference and program. Ideally, programme chairs should manage the main papers track and the entire program while the conference chairs manage the logistics of the conference * Who will be conference chair - inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle * Brief statement of chairs' experience of running conferences * Who will be programme chair - inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle * Who will edit the proceedings (default = both programme and conference chairs) * Dates for submission that are in accordance with the PACM journal procedures (this includes a commitment for ACs and Paper Chairs to serve for 2 years) * What are the initial planned dates for the conference and paper submission, which should include a 8 week revise and resubmit timeline * A draft program for the conference: we suggest that the first day is the workshop day, followed by three days of the main conference * Which research groups will support the conference * Which sponsors are likely and how will you attract sponsorship * Any letters of support from local entities offering help * A plan on how to increase diversity * A plan on how to increase accesibility * a plan on how to make some or all of the conference sessions deliverable online * Any direction/theme change you would envisage for MobileHCI (default = none) * Any new features/tracks you would like to include or other changes you would like to make to the conference (default = none) * Brief description (1/2 - 1 page) of conference venue * Brief description (1/2 - 1 page) of conference city and region/country * Rough idea of likely costs of (estimates only): registration rates (normal is to include everything inc workshops and dinner for all delegates, bar one-day attendees) venue hire travel costs and rough times from several world cities: e.g., London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, New York, Taipei, and Sydney a basic decent hotel for 5 nights * Bidders can include a full budget (using their own or the ACM TMRF budget templates) which can include costs such as food, AV, room rental, registration, badges, PC meeting, speakers, conference management and ACM overhead (16%) and revenue details including registration, tutorials, workshops, sponsorship etc. Bids are welcome from any organisation or group of organisations, provided that: * they have reviewed and agree with the guidance in the ACM SIGCHI Organising a Conference Page <https://sigchi.org/conferences/organizer-resources/organising-a-sigchi-spon…> (https://sigchi.org/conferences/organizer-resources/organising-a-sigchi-spon…) * they agree to accept the committee guidelines on publication, refereeing and finance * dates are agreed with the committee through negotiation after bidding * the proposing team consists of at least one permanent faculty member * the bidders have realistic expectations around how long different aspects of the conference organization take. For example, an ACM PAF takes time to approve, a TMRF may result in a series of questions and clarifications with the ACM and may take weeks to complete and a venue/hotel negotiation and contract signature by the ACM may take several weeks depending on the country, language or complexity of the contract. Please submit your bid as a single PDF document by August 16th, 2024 by sending it to marcos.serrano(a)irit.fr <mailto:marcos.serrano@irit.fr>. You can request an example of an earlier successful bid from Marcos. Looking forward to your bids! Marcos Serrano and Jessica Cauchard Chairs of the Mobile HCI Steering Committee https://mobilehci.acm.org/sc/sc.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to: mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request@listserv.acm.org To manage your SIGCHI Mailing lists or read our polices see: https://sigchi.org/operations/listserv/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems

by Andrea Loddo

Dear colleagues, Please find enclosed the call for papers for our Special Issue. *IMPORTANT*: The *submission period* *is approaching!* Please accept our apologies for the multiple postings. Synthetic Images to Support Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems – Call for Papers https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/pattern-recognition-letters/about/cal… <https://eu-central-1.protection.sophos.com/?d=sciencedirect.com&u=aHR0cHM6L…> *IMPORTANT DATES* *- Submission Period: 1-31 July 2024* - Acceptance Deadline: *9 December 2024* *DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE* Today's health systems collect and deliver most medical data in digital format, mainly thanks to the scientific and technological advances that have led to digitization and increased generation and collection of data describing real-world applications or processes. The availability of medical data enables a large number of artificial intelligence applications, and there is growing interest in quantitative analysis of clinical images, such as Positron Emission Tomography, Computerized Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In addition, machine and deep learning models and data-driven artificial intelligence applications have proven to improve the management and decision-making to improve the discovery of new therapeutic tools, support diagnostic decisions, aid in the rehabilitation process, etc. Despite the potential of data-driven solutions, many problems prevent or delay the development of such solutions. For example, the increasing amount of available data can lead to increased effort to make a diagnosis and is even more challenging due to high inter/intra patient variability, the availability of different imaging techniques, the absence of completely standard acquisition procedures, and the need to consider data from multiple sensors and sources. Additional relevant issues are data access and the representativeness of the captured sample compared to the actual population. Access to real data may be delayed or even prevented for various reasons, such as privacy, security, and intellectual property, or the development of the necessary (quality) acquisition and preparation technology. Sample representativeness is another critical issue involving class imbalance and the representation of rare and extreme events, which is crucial for the performance of artificial intelligence models. For these reasons, researchers have recently explored the use of synthetic data (SD) with three different use cases regarding (i) data augmentation to balance data sets or supplement available data before training a model, (ii) privacy preservation to enable secure and private sharing of sensitive data; and (iii) simulation: to estimate and teach systems in situations that have not been observed in actual reality. The main goals of this special issue are to bring together diverse, new, and impactful research on synthetic data generation for biomedical imaging with a powerful impact on Computer-Aided Diagnosis systems for real-world clinical applications. *TOPICS* Topics of interest to this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Synthetic Images for Privacy-Preserving Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Training with Synthetic Images - Synthetic Images for Benchmarking Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems - Medical Image Translation - Text-guided Medical Image Generation - Multimodal Medical Image Generation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Adaptation - Synthetic Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Domain Generalisation *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* The PRL's submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from July 1st, 2024. When submitting your manuscript, please select the article type VSI: SISCAD. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal can be found on the Journal Homepage: Guide for authors - Pattern Recognition Letters - ISSN 0167-8655 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. *GUEST EDITORS* Andrea Loddo, University of Cagliari (Italy) Lorenzo Putzu, University of Cagliari (Italy) Cecilia Di Ruberto, University of Cagliari (Italy) Carsten Marr, Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Munich (Germany) Albert Comelli, Ri.MED Foundation (Italy) Alessandro Stefano, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council of Cefalu’ (Italy) ___________ Andrea Loddo PhD | Dept. Of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, Cagliari, Italy Office: +39 070 675 8503 *And after all we're only ordinary men*

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Call for Participation - ACAIN 2024 - 4th Int. Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy -> Deadline: June 23

by ACAIN Organizing Committee

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) _______________________________________________________________ The 4th International Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience, September 22-25, 2024, Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy W: https://acain2024.icas.events E: acain(a)icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/ACAIN.LakeDistrict/ Course Deadline Regular Registration (Course): by June 23 https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ SCOPE & MOTIVATION: ACAIN 2024: AI meets Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science The ACAIN 2024 is an interdisciplinary event featuring leading scientists from AI and Neuroscience, providing a special opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research in the fields of AI, Neuroscience, Neuroscience-Inspired AI, Human-Level AI, and Cognitive Science. The 4th Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience (ACAIN) is a full-immersion four-day Course and Symposium in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. Participants will also have the chance to present their results with oral talks or posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial and productive environment. Two days of keynote talks and oral presentations, the ACAIN Symposium, (September 24-25), will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists, the ACAIN Course, (September 22-23). Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on continuous synergy, exchange, collaboration and efficient cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium - ACAIN 2024, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2024 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The Advanced Course is suited for scholars, academics, early career researchers, Post-Docs, PhD students and industry leaders. The Event (Course and Symposium) will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures. Academically, this will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Event. LECTURERS https://acain2024.icas.events/course-lecturers/ * Maria Eckstein, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Auke Jan Ijspeert, EPFL, Switzerland * Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Google DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Loic Matthey, Google DeepMind, London, UK * Kevin J. Miller, DeepMind & UCL, London, UK * Thomas Parr, Oxford University, UK * Melika Payvand, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Alessandro Treves, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy More Lecturers TBA COURSE DESCRIPTION: https://acain2024.icas.events/course-description/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/venue/ ACAIN 2024 is a *Residential Conference*, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed. https://lod2024.icas.events/lod-2024-a-residential-conference/ Riva del Sole Resort & SPA a: Località Riva del Sole - Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) CAP 58043, Tuscany - Italy p: +39-0564-928111 f: +39-0564-935607 e: booking.events(a)rivadelsole.it w: www.rivadelsole.it/en ACTIVITIES: https://acain2024.icas.events/activities/ REGISTRATION: https://acain2024.icas.events/registration/ See you in Tuscany in September! ACAIN 2024 Organizing Committee. E: acain(a)icas.cc W: https://acain2024.icas.events *4th Advanced Course and Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience – ACAIN 2024,* 22–25 September Riva del Sole Resort & SPA, Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto) Tuscany, Italy https://acain2024.icas.events/ acain(a)icas.cc *Author Registration Deadline: June 23 * *Early Registration Deadline for the Course: June 23* The Course is equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students and the Master Students attending the Course. https://acain2024.icas.events/past-editions/ https://acain2024.icas.events/past-lecturers/

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[2nd CFP] Workshop@ICMI2024 - First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction

by Radoslaw Niewiadomski

*** Apologies for cross postings *** CoFI Workshop @ICMI2024 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First Multimodal Banquet: Exploring Innovative Technology for Commensality and Human-Food Interaction (CoFI 2024) November 4 - 8, 2024 co-located with ICMI 2024 (https://icmi.acm.org/2024/ <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ficmi.acm.org%2F2024%2F&e=ed7a…>) - San José, Costa Rica Website: https://cofi2024.github.io/ <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcofi2024.github.io%2F&e=ed7a5…> Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024 <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2…> ========= HIGHLIGHTS ========= - DEADLINE: June 30th, 2024 - ACM Proceedings ========= ABSTRACT ========= Commensality, the act of eating together, offers rich opportunities for multisensory and social experiences that can be enhanced through technology. Dining involves interactions with food, where smells, colors, sounds, and textures contribute to a multisensory experience; likewise, the table becomes a focal point for social interaction, with non verbal cues and conversations being indispensable elements of the event. This workshop aims to explore how interactive, immersive, and otherwise emergent technology can enrich eating experiences. The other aim is to build an interdisciplinary community around the topics of related to commensality and human-food interaction, with special focus on the role of multimodal interaction among commensal partners sharing food, being humans or artificial dining companions (such as social robots). We aim to collect novel contributions that explore how technology can enhance, facilitate, or make these experiences more enjoyable. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: • Multimodal interaction in commensal setting • Commensal activity recognition • Cultural aspects of commensality • Artificial agents (social robots, virtual companions) in commensality setting • Interactive technology for sustainable. healthy eating and well-being • Tele- and remote dining • Food and eating as playful experience • Commensality and food interaction in digital (VR/AR) spaces • Critical human-food interaction design and research • Food, interactive tech, and sustainability • Multimodal food perception • Tracking edible objects • Designing cross-cultural food and commensal interactions • Sensory augmentation for novel eating experience • Gamification in Human-Food Interaction (HFI) and commensality • Personalizing eating experiences • Eating as a multisensory experience • Computational models of commensals interaction • Commensality and Food in Social Media • Social AI and commensal practices ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to build creative systems and algorithms for commensality and HFI. The call is open for both complete and ongoing works, research ideas and the position papers, especially interdisciplinary contributions in line with the main goals of the workshop. In particular, authors can submit: (A) Long papers (max. 7 pages + references – ACM format); (B) Short/Position/Discussion papers (max 4 pages + references – ACM format); Submission Site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024 <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2…> ACM formats: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions <https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.org%2Fpublications%2F…> All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance, and technical quality. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. At least one of the authors should register and take part at the workshop to make the presentation. ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== *Paper submission (long and short): June 30, 2024 *Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2024 *Camera-ready version: July 25, 2024 *Workshop date: November 4 or 8, 2024 =============== PROCEEDINGS =============== All accepted papers will be published in the ACM companion proceedings of ICMI2024. ============= ORGANIZATORS ============= Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Escola Universitària ERAM Christopher Dawes, University College London Marianna Obrist, University College London Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome

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