[Icacogvis] ICC Deadline is on 20th June & announcement of 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Cognition & Artificial Intelligence

[Amy Griffin]

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Hello CogVizers,

This is a reminder that the final abstract deadline for ICC2021 is on 20 June (Sunday). Please submit your abstracts under theme T06: https://www.icc2021.net/.

Please find below also details about a workshop at the GIScience conference in September that may be of interest to many of you.

Cheers,
Amy



3rd International Workshop on Spatial Cognition & Artificial Intelligence

Workshop as part of  GIScience 2021; 27. September 2021, online
tentatively 8.45-13.00 CEST.   (We consider running a second (shorter) session of the workshop in the (European) afternoon. If this works better for you, please let us know)


The 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Cognition and Artificial Intelligence (SC&AI) is organized by the Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science Working Group of TC12, the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence, and open to anybody interested in the topic. The working group, and consequently this workshop, is born from the re-emerged need in today’s era of deep learning and ‘black box’ AI appearing in spatial agents (e.g., self-driving vehicles, smart cities, interactive location-based services) to bring together members of the international scientific community who work on both theoretical as well as applied overlapping research areas of the two fields.

Topic:
Smart environments (such as smart cities, also in combination with self-driving vehicles) are often said to promise an improved quality of life, both collectively and for the individual. Based on a rich set of (sensor) data measuring all kinds of aspects of life, smart environments offer various automated decision support and guidance for both those operating an environment and those living or working in it.
However, there is a range of important issues regarding the ‘interaction’ of environment and people that need to be addressed. This workshop will focus on those that concern ‘understandability’ of such smart environments. Questions of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  *   How to identify from all the data those that are relevant for a given task/situation?
  *   How to present this information? To those operating the environment, to those being there, and individually or collectively (i.e., to the different stakeholders)?
  *   How to explain the presented information? To the different stakeholders?
  *   How to explain decisions made by the systems, and the processes leading to these decisions?
  *   How to include people in the systems’ decision making (‘human-in-the-loop’)?
  *   How to ensure (or allow for) people making their own decisions (‘human autonomy’)?

The 3rd SC&AI Workshop will bring together researchers from different disciplines to work on cognitively inspired spatial artificial systems.

The workshop will feature a keynote presentation by Richard Olsson, Properties and Facilities Director of Umeå University, on managing a smart campus from the ‘owner’s’ perspective.


Format:
This half-day workshop will offer a highly interactive setting. Participants will discuss in small multi-disciplinary groups during several topic blocks that will structure the workshop day; each such block will be introduced by short oral presentations. We target (sketches of) innovative solutions and/or relevant research questions and approaches, which can then be pursued further, as outcomes of these discussions. We further aim for participants learning from each other, and identifying common interests and complimentary knowledge and skills for potential future joint work.

Expressions of Interest:
Participants are requested to send a short expression of interest (max. 2 pages) by email to the workshop organizers, no later than the submission deadline. In these EoIs, participants are asked to briefly outline their background and then discuss why they are interested in participating in the workshop and how they believe they might contribute. Selected EoIs will be chosen for short oral presentations at the workshop.


Important dates:
Monday, Jul 19 deadline for expressions of interest
(notification about receipt and workshop participation will follow a few days later)

Monday Aug 9 notification about presentation

Monday, Sep 27 workshop day


Organizers:
Maria Vasardani, RMIT, Australia
maria.vasardani2 at rmit.edu.au<mailto:maria.vasardani2 at rmit.edu.au>

Kai-Florian Richter, Umeå University, Sweden
kai-florian.richter at umu.se<mailto:kai-florian.richter at umu.se>


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