In this Special Track, we will investigate methods of analyzing and producing intelligent behavior occurring in the interaction between humans and technology in their environment. New developments in ubiquitous, pervasive computing, sensor networks, mobile agents, smart homes, on one side, and the increasing use of sophisticated interaction methods between humans and these technologies, on the other side, are at the core of this investigation. Compared to other conferences and workshops, which concentrate on technical issues related to ubiquitous environments, we want to focus specifically on intelligent behaviors involved in the interaction between humans and "smart" environments.

We consider both sides in this investigation: humans exposing intelligent behaviors, to which an environment has to react and respond properly, and intelligent technical systems, which exhibit human-like capabilities e.g. in communication, observation, acting, and learning.

• Models and Modalities of Interaction
  • speech and language as interaction medium
  • gestures and facial expressions
  • multi-modal communication
  • social interaction; social behaviours; roles
  • interaction norms; ethics
• Interaction Environments
  • user-controlled environments, e.g. speech or gesture controlled devices
  • smart environments, e.g. adaptive services, smart houses
  • ubiquitous environments, e.g. sensor networks, mobile agents, internet
  • virtual and physical agents
• Methods and Techniques
  • action modeling, observation and recognition; behavior analysis; plan recognition
  • context modeling, e.g. action and interaction context
  • environment modeling, e.g. physical, spatial environment
  • temporal and spatial reasoning
  • knowledge representation and ontology
• Learning and Adaptation
  • adaptive systems and services
  • personalization of services
  • learning of interaction behaviours
  • learning through interaction, imitation learning
• Applications and Technical Realization

• Paper submission: 19 November 2007 21 November 2007
• Author notification: 21 January 2008
• Camera-ready copy: 21 February 2008

All papers accepted for the special track will be included in the conference proceedings published by AAAI.
Submission instructions: see FLAIRS-21 Call for Papers

• Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
• Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Andrei Doncescu, French National Organization for Scientific Research (LAAS CNRS), France
• Hakan Duman, University of Essex, United Kingdom
• Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Stephen Helmreich, CRL, USA
• John Herbert, University College Cork, Ireland
• Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Geert-Jan Kruijff, DFKI, Germany
• Xin Lu, North Side Inc., Canada
• Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
• Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
• Charles Rich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Claudia Roda, American University of Paris, France
• Nicolas Sabouret, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), France
• Lorenz Sichelschmidt, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA
• Ankur Teredesai, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Robert Trypuz, Institute for Applied Ontology, Italy
• Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan
• Ron Zacharski, University of Mary Washington, USA
• Mary Zajeck, Oxford Brookes University, Great Britain
• Haiyi Zhang, Acadia University, Canada

Christel Kemke, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
e-mail: ckemke@cs.umanitoba.ca

Sajid Hussain, Department of Computer Science, Acadia University, Canada
e-mail: sajid.hussain@acadiau.ca