[Announcements] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (iWOAR 2017)

[Kris Yordanova]

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		    iWOAR 2017 -- Call for Papers

		    4th International Workshop on
	  Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction

	       21-22 September 2017, Rostock - Germany

	      in-cooperation with ACM, SIGAI and SIGCHI
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Ubiquitous systems are becoming an integral part of our everyday
lives. Functionality and user experience often depends on accurate,
sensor-based activity recognition and interaction. Systems aiming to
provide the user with assistance or to monitor their behavior and
condition rely heavily on sensors and the activities and interactions
that they can recognize. Providing adequate activity recognition and
interaction requires consideration for particular elements: sensors
that are capable of capturing relevant behavior, methods that reason
about sensor readings in the context of these behaviors, and
appropriate methods for assisting and interacting with the user. All
of these aspects are essential and can influence the quality and
suitability of the provided service.

Objective of iWOAR 2017 -- the 4th International Workshop on
Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction -- is to discuss
these challenges and possible solution approaches. The workshop
focuses on:

1. sensors, sensor infrastructures, and sensing technologies needed to
   detect user behaviors and to provide relevant interactions between
   systems and users

2. data and model-driven methods for intelligent monitoring and user
   assistance that supports users in everyday settings

3. novel applications and evaluation studies of methods for
   intelligent monitoring of everyday user behavior and user
   assistance using sensing technologies

4. intelligent methods for synthesizing assistance and interaction
   strategies using sensing technologies

iWOAR 2017 aims to foster the relationship between academia and
industry. We strongly encourage industry participants to present
challenges, ideas, experiences, novel applications, and studies of
existing methods. Accepted industrial papers will be presented in an
industrial session during the workshop.

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Topics
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The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Human activity recognition
- Healthcare systems
- Cognitive systems
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Expert Systems
- NLP for intelligent systems
- Ontologies for intelligent systems
- Knowledge acquisition for intelligent systems
- Assistive systems in the healthcare and manufacturing
- Novel applications for assessing everyday behavior
- Smart homes
- Behavior monitoring and interpretation
- Human performance measuring
- Interaction techniques
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Input & output modalities
- Wearable computing and wearable sensing
- Context awareness
- Data mining and machine learning for sensor-based intelligent systems
- Signal reconstruction and interpolation
- Innovative wearable sensing technologies

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Submission and Review
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All submissions undergo a peer review process to ensure the
presentation of high quality content. Accepted submissions will be
published in the iWOAR 2017 Proceedings. The ACM SIGCHI paper format
should be used with a maximum total length of 6 pages (including
references and appendices), although paper length can be flexible for
outstanding contributions up to an absolute limit of 12 pages. Papers
are to be submitted through the EasyChair submission system.

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Important dates
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Submission deadline:  15 June 2017
Notification:         30 July 2017
Camera ready version: TBA
Author registration:  TBA
Workshop:             21 – 22 September 2017

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Conference chairs
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- Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock, GER
- Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD, GER

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Organising committee
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- Kristina Yordanova, University of Rostock, GER
- Max Schröder, University of Rostock, GER

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Program committee chairs
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- Sebastian Bader, University of Rostock, GER
- Adeline Paiement, Swansea University, GBR
- Anke Lehmann, TU Dresden, GER

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Program committee
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- Ahmed Rabee Sadik, Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Albert Hein, University of Rostock, GER
- Alessandra Mileo , National University of Ireland, Galway, IRL
- Alfred Hesener , Infineon, USA
- Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, GER
- Arjan Kuijper, Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Bodo Urban, Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, ITA
- Christina Strohrmann , BOSCH-Sensortec, GER
- Denys J.C. Matthies, University of Rostock, GER
- Dieter W. Fellner , Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Didier Stricker, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, GER
- Fillia Makedon, University of Texas Arlington, USA
- Gerald Bieber, Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Gilles Bailly, Telecom ParisTech, FRA
- Hans-Joerg Schulz, University of Rostock, GER
- Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Piraeus, GRC
- Jochen Huber, Synaptics, USA
- Keying Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, CHN
- Kristina Yordanova, University of Rostock, GER
- Kristof van Laerhoven, University of Freiburg, GER
- Marcel Jacomet, University of Bern, CHE
- Mario Aehnelt, Fraunhofer IGD, GER
- Marian Haescher, University of Rostock, GER
- Max Schröder, University of Rostock, GER
- Nicolai Marquardt, University College London, GBR
- Oliver Amft, University of Passau, GER
- Paul Lukowicz, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, GER
- Rebekka Alm, University of Rostock, GER
- Simon T. Perrault, YALE-NUS College, SGP
- Soledad Ballesteros, National Distance Education University, ESP
- Stefan Göbel, University of Darmstadt, GER
- Stefan Lüdtke, University of Rostock, GER
- Thijs Roumen, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, GER
- Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock, GER
- Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research Cambridge, GBR
- Uwe Kaulbars, Institute of Occupational Safty & Health, GER
- Vangelis Metsis, Texas State University, USA


For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission,
please visit our webpage (www.iwoar.org) or contact Kristina Yordanova
at kristina.yordanova at uni-rostock.de or Max Schröder at
max.schroeder at uni-rostock.de.

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