PRICAI Workshops
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of all aspects of knowledge acquisition from both the theoretician's and practitioner's points of view. While it is well accepted that knowledge is vital for our individual, organisational and societal survival and growth, the nature of knowledge and how it can be captured, represented, reused, maintained and shared are not fully-understood. This workshop will explore approaches that address these issues. PKAW includes knowledge acquisition research involving manual and automated methods and combinations of both.
For more details please visit: http://comp.mq.edu.au/~richards/pkaw12/
The Third International Workshop on Empathic Computing (IWEC2012)
Technology has matured sufficiently to tackle problems providing emotional and social intelligence to computing systems. Right now, there is a need for human-centered systems, i.e. systems that are seamlessly integrated into everyday life, easy to use, multimodal, and anticipatory. These systems widen the breadth of users of computing systems, from the very young to the elderly, as well as to the physically challenged. Empathic systems are human-centered systems.
Empathic computing systems are software or physical context-aware computing systems capable of building user models and provide richer, naturalistic, system-initiated empathic responses with the objective of providing intelligent assistance and support. We view empathy as a cognitive act that involves the perception of the user's thought, affect (i.e., emotional feeling or mood), intention or goal, activity, and/or situation and a response due to this perception that is supportive of the user. An empathic computing system is ambient intelligent, i.e., it consists of seamlessly integrated ubiquitous networked sensors, microprocessors and software for it to perceive the various user behavioral patterns from multimodal inputs.
Empathic computing systems may be applied to various areas such as e-health, geriatric domestic support, empathic home/space, productivity systems, entertainment and e-learning. Lastly, this approach shall draw upon the expertise in, and theories of, ubiquitous sensor-rich computing, embedded systems, affective computing, user adaptive interfaces, image processing, digital signal processing and machine learning in artificial intelligence. On its third year, IWEC focuses on the ambient intelligent, socio-affective context of empathic computing. Empathic systems are relevant essentially because of their capability to infer not only user behavioral states, but also about the context in which the user is involved. Appropriate responses are heavily influenced by the context of its occurrence.
For more details please visit: http://www.ai.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/IWEC2012/
For other collocated workshops during the Knowledge Technology Week,
please visit: http://ktw.mimos.my/aiw2012/workshops.html