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This is a reminder that the final abstract deadline for ICC2021 is on <b>20 June</b> (Sunday). Please submit your abstracts under theme T06:
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Please find below also details about a workshop at the GIScience conference in September that may be of interest to many of you.</div>
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<div class="">3rd International Workshop on Spatial Cognition & Artificial Intelligence</div>
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<div class="">Workshop as part of GIScience 2021; 27. September 2021, online </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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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.<br class="">
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
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<li class="">How to identify from all the data those that are relevant for a given task/situation?</li><li class="">How to present this information? To those operating the environment, to those being there, and individually or collectively (i.e., to the different stakeholders)? </li><li class="">How to explain the presented information? To the different stakeholders? </li><li class="">How to explain decisions made by the systems, and the processes leading to these decisions?</li><li class="">How to include people in the systems’ decision making (‘human-in-the-loop’)?</li><li class="">How to ensure (or allow for) people making their own decisions (‘human autonomy’)?</li></ul>
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<div class="">The 3rd SC&AI Workshop will bring together researchers from different disciplines to work on cognitively inspired spatial artificial systems. </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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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.<br class="">
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Expressions of Interest:<br class="">
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.<br class="">
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Important dates:<br class="">
Monday, Jul 19<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>deadline for expressions of interest<br class="">
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<div class="">Organizers:<br class="">
Maria Vasardani, RMIT, Australia<br class="">
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Kai-Florian Richter, Umeå University, Sweden<br class="">
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<div class="">Please visit the workshop website for further details:</div>
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