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

Important Dates

Paper submission: Apr 15, 2017 May 1, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2017
Camera Ready: Jun 15, 2017

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.

Programme Committee

(To be updated.)

Organizing Committee

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