[agents] CFP: Human-Agent Interaction Workshop at AAMAS 2014 (HAIDM)
Sarvapali Ramchurn
sdr1 at soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 3 13:11:58 EST 2014
Key updates:
** We welcome papers already accepted at AAMAS as posters or full papers!**
** Sponsorship for students to attend HAIDM 2014 from the Smart Society and ORCHID projects!**
** Deadline 10th of Feb (1 week to go!)**
(see more below)
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CFP: Third International Workshop on
Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models
http://haidm.wordpress.com/
takes place in conjunction with
AAMAS 2014
May 6th 2014 (one full day), Paris France
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As the boundaries of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems continue to expand, there is an increasing need for agents to interact with humans. In fact, the field of multi-agent systems has matured from conceptual models to applications within the real-world (e.g., energy and sustainability, disaster management, or health care). One significant challenge that arises when transitioning these conceptual models to applications is addressing the inevitable human interaction. To this end, this workshop examines major challenges at the intersection of human-agent systems. In particular, we focus on the challenges of designing and modelling human-agent interaction. While the former takes a human-centric view of human-agent systems and focuses on the design of human-agent coordination mechanisms, trust issues in human-agent interaction, interaction techniques, and human activity recognition, the latter is concerned with finding better models of human behaviour in a variety of settings so that autonomous and multi-agent systems can appropriately interact with human agents (e.g., agent-human negotiation strategies or health care agents encouraging physical therapy for a variety of recovering patients).
This workshop aims to establish a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in designing and modelling human-agent interaction in different domains.
Keynote
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Prof. Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham
Tom Rodden is Professor of Interactive Systems at the Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) at the University of Nottingham and Director of Equator. Prof Rodden’s research focuses on the development of new technologies to support users within the real world and new forms of interactive technology that emerge from mixing physical and digital interaction. This is a multi-disciplinary endeavour bringing together researchers in behavioural and social sciences and those involved in systems engineering, network infrastructures and interactive systems design. This ranges from those with a background in anthropology to those with training in art&design and embrace technologists from software development to the construction of novel hardware. He has published widely in the areas of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), HCI and Ubiquitous computing. Since 2001 he has been director of the Equator IRC that brings together 8 different research institutes in the UK. The Equator IRC is a six-year programme of research to explore new technologies that interweave the physical and digital worlds supported by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Topics Covered
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In designing multi-agent systems applications where such applications involve humans, it is important to consider the key principles by which the interaction between agents and humans will be established. In particular, the technical issues to be addressed by researchers, and which will be the key discussion points, at this workshop include but are not limited to:
- Flexible autonomy
- Trust between humans and agents
- Presentation and interaction techniques
- Human activity recognition
- Agents as social actors
- Reasoning about social roles and social reality
- Modelling human behaviour, especially in mixed human-agent systems
- Comparison of approaches in applying models of human behaviour (e.g., strictly rational, bounded rational or psychological models)
- Enhanced models of human behaviour and theory of human behaviour such as quantal response, prospect theory, and other models of human decision making. - Applications of human behaviour models
- Cooperative and competitive agent-human systems
- Behavioural game theory
- Techniques for learning human behaviour (e.g., machine learning)
- Crowdsourcing: mechanisms to allocate tasks to online crowds including social incentives, micro-payments for micro-tasks within implemented system.
- Citizen science: the use of agent-based techniques (e.g., distributed algorithms to coordinate citizen scientists or to model human behaviour) in order to solve scientific problems better.
- Use of agent-based coordination algorithms to coordinate humans.
- Techniques for model selection or augmenting agent learning through human modelling
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for evaluating agent-human interactions
- Human-Robot Interaction: the design of embodied agents as well as methods for human-robot coordination.
- Coalition formation and optimisation models involving models of agents and humans
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for evaluating agent-human interactions - Quantitative and qualitative studies of human-agent interaction (or agent-supported human activities) in the lab, online and in real-world settings - Smart society applications consisting of heterogeneous networks of agents and humans that cooperate/coordinate to solve problems of scale
- Real-world applications of Human-Agent Interaction such (e.g., energy management, consumption, transportation, healthcare, and disaster response).
Important dates
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- February 10th, 2014 - Submission deadline.
- March 3, 2014 - Notification of acceptance.
- May 6th, 2014 - Workshop takes place.
Sponsorship
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HAIDM 2014 is sponsored by the Smart Society Project (EU FP7 Hybrid Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems (http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/smartsociety/) and the ORCHID project (http://www.orchid.ac.uk)
These will help subsidise travel/registration for first-author students to attend the workshop through a competitive process (details will be announced after papers are accepted).
Submission Instructions
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Submissions should conform to the LNCS Springer format, Authors are
encouraged to use the style file found here or see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for more
details.
Submissions may be of two types:
Long papers: These are full-length research papers detailing work in
progress or work that could potentially be published at a major
conference. These should not be more than *16* pages long in the LNCS format above.
Short papers: These are position papers or demo papers that describe
either a project on human-agent systems, an application that has not yet
been evaluated, or initial work. These should not be more than *8* pages
long (excluding appendices and assuming the LNCS format above).
Authors can submit their papers through the HAIDM 2014 Easychair
submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haidm2014
Multiple Submission Policy
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The HAIDM organisers have decided that no formal proceedings of the workshop will be published. As such, we are intentionally allowing multiple submissions to encourage papers that have been accepted within quality venues (e.g. the AAMAS main and virtual agent tracks). Nonetheless, we hope to accept the best HAIDM papers for publication as either a Springer Lecture Notes volume or within a special issue of a journal.
Review Process
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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection
of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.
Organising Committee
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Joel Fischer University of Nottingham, UK
Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn University of Southampton, UK
Avi Rosenfeld Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
Long Tran-Thanh University of Southampton, UK
Programme Committee
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Bo An Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ben Bedwell University of Nottingham
Ladislau Boloni University of Central Florida
Frank Dignum Utrecht University
Virginia Dignum TU Delft
Michael Goodrich Brigham Young University
Piyush Khandelwal University of Texas at Austin
Sarit Kraus Bar Ilan University
Paul Lukowicz DFKI
Vincenzo (Enzo) Maltese University of Trento
Thanh Nguyen University of Southern California
Ana Paiva INESC
Rui Prada Instituto Superior Técnico-UTL and INESC-ID
Subramanian Ramamoorthy University of Edinburgh
Michael Rovatsos University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Sklar University of Liverpool
Sebastian Stein University of Southampton
Matthew E. Taylor Washington State University
Greg Trafton Naval Research Lab
Matteo Venanzi University of Southampton
Rong Yang University of Southern California
Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard Southern Denmark University
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