Brief Description

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable.
Affect and social behavior plays an important role in the development of Ambient Intelligent Environments. Consideration of aspects like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more “natural” support for humans. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviors.
AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.
In the Thematic track on AmIA Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics included in the Ambient Intelligence and affective environments. Researchers are welcome to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions achieved and relevant results.

Topics of Interest

• Applications
• Ambient Assisted Living
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Artificial Intelligence for AmI
• Intelligent Environments
• Pervasive Computing
• Context Aware Computing
• Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
• Mobile Computing
• Sentient Computing
• e-Health
  Context Modeling
• AmI for e-Learning
• On-line Dispute Resolution
• Memory Assistant
• Computational models of emotions
• Group Emotion
• Affect and learning
• Artificial characters
• Affect and emotion recognition

Submission and Reviewing

Submitted papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee.

Program Committee

Amal Seghrouchni, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Ana Paiva, IST, Portugal

Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University, US

Ângelo Costa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Antonio Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy

Boon Kiat-Quek, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Carlos Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Cesar Analide, University of Minho, Portugal

Dante Tapia, University of Salamanca, Spain

Davide Carneiro, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Davy  Preuveneers, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Diego Gachet, European University of Madrid, Portugal

Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates Blacksburg,US

Fábio Silva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Florentino Fdez-Riverola, University of Vigo, Spain

Gordon Hunter, Kingston University, UK

Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology. Poland

Hoon  Ko, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korean

Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Javier Bajo, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain

Javier Jaen, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Jean Ilié, LIP6, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal

José Molina, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

José Neves, University of Minho, Portugal

Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Laurence Devillers, LIMS-CNRS, France

Lino Figueiredo, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Luís Macedo, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal

Ricardo Costa, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Ricardo Santos, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Rui José, University of Minho, Portugal

Rui Costa, Ubiwhere, Portugal

Sara González, University of Salamanca, Spain

Shin’Ichi Konomi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Vic Callaghan, Essex University, UK

Vicente Julián, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Organizing Committee

Paulo Novais, U.Minho, Portugal
Ana Almeida, ISEP, Porto, Portugal
Sara Rodríguez González, University of Salamanca, Spain
Goreti Marreiros, ISEP, Porto, Portugal

The AmIA Environments workshop is is sponsored by: