AMUSE 2013 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Ambient Multimedia and Sensory Environment

The vision of ambient intelligence promotes a paradigm where our environments are technologically augmented with myriad sensors and communicating devices making them sensitive to the presence of people and responsive to serve their needs. The cornerstone of such environment is the availability of vast amount of multimedia data that are generated based on the multimodal sensors and processed to identify the needs of the residents. Multimedia data are also contributed and shared by the residents to enhance their experience in the environment. Thus, an ambient intelligence environment truly transforms into a multimedia and sensory environment, where new breeds of applications emerge and new forms of interactions become a possibility.
The proliferation of multimedia, sensors, and other pervasive devices and services for realizing ambient intelligence environment has brought many challenges that are the core focus of this workshop. More specifically, this workshop aims to report on state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and systems that help to realize ambient multimedia and sensory environment. We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values relevant to several topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
Modeling context and quality of context
Multi-modal interaction in multimedia and sensory environment
Intelligibility and control in complex ambient environment
Self-organizing appliance ensembles
Middleware and operating systems for AMUSE
Novel human-centric interaction and personalization
Ambient device/service discovery, selection and composition
Smart environment modeling and development
Rapid prototyping of AMUSE
Wearable sensing and actuation for ambient healthcare applications
Smart device communication, coordination and configuration
Sensor data collection, processing, and visualization
Situation awareness in ambient multimedia environment
Entertainment and multimedia presentation in ambient environment
Architectural support for multimedia and sensory environment
Ambient intelligence environments for education and healthcare
Emerging cloud computing for ambient sensory environment
IoT for ambient multimedia and sensory environment
Environment to environment communication
Ambient service recommendation
Interactive ambient multimedia system
General Co-chairs
M. Anwar Hossain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, University of Ottawa, Canada
Sajal K. Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Technical Program Committee (tentative)
Mohammed Mehedi Hassan, King Saud University, KSA
Jao P. Barreto, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Alecio Binotto, IBM Research, Brazil
Giannis Georgalis, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Starvroula Doa, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Gino Brunetti, CASED, Germany
Marco Blumendorf, TU Berlin, Germany
Christian Elting, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Pedro Santoz, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Santiago Tainta Ausejo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Giuseppe Conti, GraphiTech, Italy
Raffaele de Aimecis, GraphiTech, Italy
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
Hesam Rahimi, University of Toronto, Canada
Mehdi Bagheri, Qazvin University, Iran
Morteza Mostajab, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Spain
Ernesto William De Luca, TU Berlin, Germany
Dimitris Grammenos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Margarita Antona, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Areti Damala, CNAM, France
Ioannis Patras, University of London, UK
Jorge Parra, Ikerlan-IK4, Spain
Anind K. Dey, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
Daqing Zhang, Telecommunication Network and Services Department, France