Call for papers
5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’20),
co-located with UbiComp/ISWC 2020 in Cancun, Mexico on September 13, 2020.
Scope and Aims
Early visions of digital Personal Assistants (PAs) have been successfully implemented in combination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) into so-called IPAs, e.g., Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Amazon’s Alexa. However, such digital assistants are still far from being capable of supporting humans unobtrusively in every aspect of their lives, falling particularly short when compared to the capabilities of human personal assistants.
Ubiquitous personal assistance (UPA) refers to the next era of digital personal assistants. Specifically, UPA refines and complements the concept of IPA by considering (i) advanced personalization (including detection of user’s intents), (ii) proactive or even autonomous support, (iii) a single point of ubiquitous assistance, (iv) the combination of different coordinated assistants and assistance use cases, and (v) the unobtrusive integration of the user in the loop to adjust the underlying machine learning models.
The Fifth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’20) aims to share experiences of current research endeavors on digital personal assistance. We invite submissions of papers focused on advancing towards digital assistants that provide a high level of personalization, through proactive and effective support of users’ activities, in an unobtrusive manner. This time in particular, we aim to put forward the discussion on how digital assistants can better exploit Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to provide guidance and support for specific endeavors of people's lives, such as those related to training/education, professional, and personal activities. Furthermore, this workshop seeks to find novel ways to exploit cognitive aspects, such as users’ intentions, motivations, and emotions, to build digital assistants that better fit each particular user.
Areas of Interest
Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to:
Important dates
Submission deadline: July 6, 2020 (23:59 AoE)
Paper notification: July 24, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: July 31, 2020
Workshop date: September 13, 2020
Submissions
We invite submissions with a length of 4 to 8 pages (incl. figures, references), ranging from motivated opinions or viewpoints on UPA, over work-in-progress or short technical papers, to full research papers. All submitted papers must be written in English and prepared in the ACM SIGCHI portrait template format. Latex documents should use the "sigchi" template style. Word users should use the interim template.
To make a new submission please visit the link below and select SIGCHI as the society, Ubicomp/ISWC 2020 as the conference, and UPA as the track:
https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi
The right template to prepare your manuscript can be found in the following links:
Word template
Latex template
The accepted papers will be published in supplemental proceedings of the UbiComp/ISWC 2020 conference and included in the ACM Digital Library.
co-located with UbiComp/ISWC 2020 in Cancun, Mexico on September 13, 2020.
Scope and Aims
Early visions of digital Personal Assistants (PAs) have been successfully implemented in combination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) into so-called IPAs, e.g., Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Amazon’s Alexa. However, such digital assistants are still far from being capable of supporting humans unobtrusively in every aspect of their lives, falling particularly short when compared to the capabilities of human personal assistants.
Ubiquitous personal assistance (UPA) refers to the next era of digital personal assistants. Specifically, UPA refines and complements the concept of IPA by considering (i) advanced personalization (including detection of user’s intents), (ii) proactive or even autonomous support, (iii) a single point of ubiquitous assistance, (iv) the combination of different coordinated assistants and assistance use cases, and (v) the unobtrusive integration of the user in the loop to adjust the underlying machine learning models.
The Fifth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’20) aims to share experiences of current research endeavors on digital personal assistance. We invite submissions of papers focused on advancing towards digital assistants that provide a high level of personalization, through proactive and effective support of users’ activities, in an unobtrusive manner. This time in particular, we aim to put forward the discussion on how digital assistants can better exploit Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to provide guidance and support for specific endeavors of people's lives, such as those related to training/education, professional, and personal activities. Furthermore, this workshop seeks to find novel ways to exploit cognitive aspects, such as users’ intentions, motivations, and emotions, to build digital assistants that better fit each particular user.
Areas of Interest
Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Intelligent personal assistance for supporting specific user’s endeavors related to training/education, professional, and personal activities.
- Personal VR/AR intelligent assistance
- Cognitive aspects for personal assistance (e.g., users’ intentions, motivations, and emotions)
- Digital personal assistants, anticipatory mobile computing, interpretation of predictive model outcomes, decision making, and intent-based assistance
- Understanding human behavior through mobile sensing, context recognition and prediction
- Human behavior changes, intervention mechanisms, proactive guidance, intelligent actioning, psychological and persuasive computing
- Infrastructures, platforms, frameworks, and design for the development of digital personal assistants
Important dates
Submission deadline: July 6, 2020 (23:59 AoE)
Paper notification: July 24, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: July 31, 2020
Workshop date: September 13, 2020
Submissions
We invite submissions with a length of 4 to 8 pages (incl. figures, references), ranging from motivated opinions or viewpoints on UPA, over work-in-progress or short technical papers, to full research papers. All submitted papers must be written in English and prepared in the ACM SIGCHI portrait template format. Latex documents should use the "sigchi" template style. Word users should use the interim template.
To make a new submission please visit the link below and select SIGCHI as the society, Ubicomp/ISWC 2020 as the conference, and UPA as the track:
https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi
The right template to prepare your manuscript can be found in the following links:
Word template
Latex template
The accepted papers will be published in supplemental proceedings of the UbiComp/ISWC 2020 conference and included in the ACM Digital Library.