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<b><span style="font-style:italic">Call For Papers</span></b>
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">The First International Workshop on Social Activity Recognition (IWSAR)</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start">Held as part of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
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<div style="text-align:start">September 12, 2017 Maui (USA) </div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We invite you to take part in the first international Workshop on Social Activity Recognition (<a href="http://www.iwsar.net">IWSAR</a>). The workshop is being held as part of the 2017 ACM Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous
Computing (<a href="http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2017/">UbiComp</a>), and will take place in Maui, Hawaii, on September 12th.
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<div style="text-align:start">Research on activity and context recognition has traditionally focused on a single user, but most real-world activities are social -- they are carried out by, and within, groups of two or more people. The aim of social activity
recognition, as explored in this workshop, is to use ubiquitous and wearable sensing as a basis for research into activities that involve interactions between more than one person. Social interactions are varied and can include verbal or non-verbal communication,
social signalling, physical collaboration, conflict, spontaneous role-taking, etc. Methods for, and applications of, sensing and modelling of physical interaction and joint activity is an exciting new cross-disciplinary research topic across the computing,
cognitive, and behavioural sciences. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are working on, or who are interested in, automatic sensing, recognition, and use of information about human activities in social or group settings.
The workshop will provide a forum for participants to bring together ideas and to share work-in-progress on this topic.
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">Topics of interest</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start"><span title="Page 2">The workshop will be of interest to researchers across the spectrum of ubiquitous computing, the behavioural sciences, and beyond, who are interested in developing and using activity sensing and recognition
in a social context. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><span title="Page 2">Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<li><span title="Page 2">Activity and context recognition in dyads or groups (</span><span title="Page 2">multimodal, multi-person sensing)</span>
</li><li><span title="Page 2">Social sensing (crowd sourcing, opportunistic sensing, ad-hoc group formation</span><span title="Page 2">, data</span><span title="Page 2"> sharing,</span>
<span title="Page 2">privacy) </span> </li><li><span title="Page 2">Virtual social interaction</span><span title="Page 2"> (AI, virtual reality, motion tracking, virtual agents and avatars)</span>
</li><li><span title="Page 2">Machine learning (</span><span title="Page 2">modelling activities and actions across multiple people, </span><span title="Page 2">dealing with uncertainty</span><span title="Page 2">) </span>
</li><li><span title="Page 2">Experimental design (experiences with data collection, </span><span title="Page 2">annotation, evaluation in-the-wild</span><span title="Page 2">) </span>
</li><li>Social psychology (joint action, non-verbal interaction, group behaviour) </li></ul>
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<div>Of particular interest are topics related to the applications of social activity recognition, for example:
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<li><span title="Page 2">Behavioural change </span> </li><li>Computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) </li><li>Wearables </li><li>Multi-player gaming </li><li>Tools for cognitive and behavioural science research </li></ul>
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">Guide for authors</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start">We aim to encourage participation from researchers across a variety of fields. To reflect this submissions can vary from a 1 page psychology-style abstract, up to a 10-page technical paper (maximum). Concise, short papers are particularly
encouraged. All submissions should use the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (landscape, see templates for <a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-format-2016/at_download/file">Word</a> or <a href="https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats">LaTeX</a>).
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<div style="text-align:start">Accepted papers will be peer reviewed, and will be published both in the ACM Digital Library and as part of the Ubicomp 2017 supplementary proceedings. Authors will be invited to present their work for discussion at the workshop
in a series of short 10-15 minute presentations. </div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Please email your paper directly to <a href="mailto:chair@iwsar.net">chair@iwsar.net</a> with "IWSAR submission" as the subject line.
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">Important Dates</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start">Deadline for submission: Friday, 9 June 2017. </div>
<div style="text-align:start">Notification of acceptance: Friday, 30 June 2017. </div>
<div style="text-align:start">Deadline for camera-ready submission: Wednesday, 12 July 2017.
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">Organising committee:</span></div>
<div style="text-align:start">Jamie A. Ward, University College London (UCL), UK.
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<div style="text-align:start">Paul Lukowicz, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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<div style="text-align:start">Kai Kunze, Keio Media Design, Japan. </div>
<div style="text-align:start">Koichi Kise, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. </div>
<div style="text-align:start">For general enquiries, please contact: <a href="mailto:j.a.ward@ucl.ac.uk">
j.a.ward@ucl.ac.uk</a> </div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><span style="font-weight:bold">Technical Program Committee</span></div>
<div>Daniel Gatica-Perez, EPFL </div>
<div>Daniel Roggen, University of Sussex </div>
<div>Kristof Van Laerhoven, University Siegen </div>
<div>Philipp Scholl, University of Freiburg </div>
<div>Jan-Ye, University of St. Andrews </div>
<div>Ulf Blank, ETH Zurich </div>
<div style="text-align:start">Antonia Hamilton, UCL </div>
<div style="text-align:start">Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths </div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We look forward to seeing you at IWSAR and UbiComp!
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