[iva] Frontiers in Machine Intelligence – Emotion Aware Vehicle Assistants

[Elisabeth Andre]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

the french-german summer school “Intelligent Cars on Digital Roads”,
organized by  Eurécom, TU München and BMW Group, known as the “BMW 
Summer School”
is for the 6th time in a row calling on PhD candidates and young 
scientists to gather in southern
Bavaria for multidisciplinary exchange on the future of mobility.

The week of July 29 – Aug 3 will be bustling with interesting keynote 
talks and workshops,
focusing on “Frontiers in Machine Intelligence – Emotion Aware Vehicle 
Assistants”
We are certain that your institution is conducting relevant research and 
ask you to forward
or publish this call as you see fit.

We are soliciting original poster contributions from international PhD 
students and young researchers with a keen interest in shaping the 
future of individual mobility. Topics addressed are human centric 
interaction design, emotion awareness, emotion sensing and respective 
sensor technologies, in-vehicle sensate environments, interactive 
furniture, cognitive models, interactive learning, reinforcement 
learning for personalization and recommender systems, data analytics for 
emotion-aware systems, psychology of passengers in autonomous vehicles, 
privacy, and consciousness, human mind and ethics of emotion-aware systems.
The BMW Summer School is encouraging multi-disciplinary discussion and 
hence is calling for contributions from all fields – from computer 
science to electrical engineering, from economics to legal, from 
sociology to psychology and philosophy.
For the full call for contributions please 
seehttps://easychair.org/cfp/EVA-2018
For further details incl. a preliminary programme please see the 
conference websitehttp://summerschool.bmw

Important dates
The event is taking place July 29 – Aug 3, 2018
Submission Deadline is April 30, 2018

Venue
The event will be hosted at Akademiezentrum 
Raitenhaslach,https://www.raitenhaslach.tum.de/

A limited number of travel grants and conference fee waivers is available.

We apologize in advance should you receive multiple copies of this call, 
due to technicalities
and variety of distribution channels and do look forward to receiving 
exciting applications.


With kindest regards,
Hans-Jörg Vögel
(BMW Summer School organizing committee, chair)

-- 
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André
Chair, Full Professor
Human-Centered Multimedia, Institut für Informatik
Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 6a, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany
Phone: +49 821 598 2341, Fax: +49 821 598 2349
http://hcm-lab.de

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