AIAA 2014 - The AAAI 2014 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments

Ambient intelligence can help, transform, and enhance the way people with disabilities perform their activities of daily living, activities that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. However, despite the increasing trend toward the development of new assistive technologies to help people with disabilities, no real adoption tendency has been observed yet, regarding the targeted user groups. Indeed, users impairments and particularities are so diverse, that implementing complex technological solutions ? mandatory for user adaptation ? represents a major challenge in terms of universal design. In such a context, the main objective of this workshop is to investigate new solutions to scientific problems occurring in the various topics related to artificial intelligence applied in the domain of impaired people assistance.
Topics
Topics and research questions to be explored include, but not limited to, the following:
Algorithms for plan, activity, intent, or behavior recognition or prediction
Personalization (user modeling, user profile, and others.)
Algorithms for intelligent proactive assistance
Context awareness
High-level activity and event recognition
Multiperson localization
Autonomic computing
High-level control of autonomous systems
Fault tolerance of assistive technologies
Pervasive and/or mobile cognitive assistance
Format
This one-day workshop will consist of invited talks from experts, technical and position papers presentations organized into topical sessions (decided based on submissions), and a poster session depending on the participation. To encourage discussion, the workshop will be limited to 50 invited participants.