Workshops

From November 6th to 9th, 2023 the MMSP group was at the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence held in Rome with two workshops and numerous presentations!

The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Machine Interaction chaired by Aurora Saibene with Silvia Corchs, Simone Fontana and Jordi Solé-Casals opened the MMSP roman week.
Six multi-disciplinary presentations were delivered and the three Invited Speakers Stefano Mazzoleni, Léa Pillette and Francesco Ferrise provided insights on the topics of neurorehabilitation, brain-computer interfacing and virtual reality.

On November 8th, Davide Chicco presented the work done in the cotext of the Age-It PNRR project in collaboration with Francesca Gasparini at the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, receiving numerous questions and feedback from the audience.

Last but not least, Francesca Gasparini organized with Francesca Fracasso and Frida Millella the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society chaired by Stefania Bandini, Luigia Carlucci Aiello and Gabriella Cortellessa.
The workshop received 11 papers and Marco Alberti delivered an interesting Invited Talk on the potential that AI has when dealing with the monitoring and support of caregivers.

Among the presenters our students and collaborators Giorgio Fratti, Lorenzo Olearo, and Patrizia Ribino presented works in the context of the Ampel and Age-It project, taking the interest of all the audience.

The week passed in a wink and we are very happy to have experienced such an amazing conference, meeting loads of people interested in AI and all its applications in different fields.

See you in Bolzano next year!

We are very happy to share that the Workshop has been a huge success!

More than 20 participants have come to the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication of the University of Milano-Bicocca to follow Slobodan Tanackovic’s talk on Brain-Computer Interfaces and join the proposed practical activities.

Heartfelt thanks to Slobodan for coming a long way to Milano and deliver such an amazing Workshop!

We would also like to thank all the attendees for coming, making a lot of questions and diving into the world of Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Stay tuned for new events and go take a look at the new Gallery section of the website!

Slobodan Tanackovic, Sales Manager at g.tec medical engineering GmbH, will hold a workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces at the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication of the University of Milano-Bicocca.

The event will take place on June 5th, 2023, starting from 9:00 AM in the Seminar Room at the first floor of Building U14 (Viale Sarca, 336 – 20126 – MI, Italy), according to this program:

• Presentation of BCI basics.
• Motor imagery task using recoveriX system.
• Attention task using Unicorn Speller.
• Code based EP using Unicorn Maze.
• HISYS Simulink modelling for BCI applications.
• State of the Art BCIs: invasive and ultra-high resolution techniques.

Participants will be involved during practical activities.

Please, fill in the following form to provide information on your participation to the event and notify the Organizers in case you will not be able to attend after having provided your positive answer: https://forms.gle/KxTso59J6xbFFQvL7

Notice that the form accepts answers from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM on weekdays and it will not be available after the maximum number of seats is reached.

For detailed information, please refer to Doctor Aurora Saibene (aurora.saibene@unimib.it) and to Professor Francesca Gasparini (francesca.gasparini@unimib.it).

Starting from November 28, 2022, the MMSP group will be present at the 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (https://aixia2022.uniud.it/) with two workshops:

• The 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society (AIxAS 2022)
• The 1st Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human Machine Interaction (AIxHMI 2022)

AIxAS 2022 sees Professor Francesca Gasparini as Chair with Doctor Filippo Palumbo of the CNR-ISTI of Pisa and Doctor Francesca Fracasso of the CNR-ISTI of Rome.
The aim of this workshop is to promote active and healthy ageing, which involve prolonging independent living, ageing well and maintaining social inclusion, by considering the pivotal role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on assitive technologies and smart environments that could support and help older adults.

You can contribute to the workshop by submitting ideas, position, short or regular papers until September 30, 2022.

AIxHMI 2022 sees Doctor Aurora Saibene as Chair with Professor Silvia Corchs of the University of Insubria and Professor Jordi Solé-Casals of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya.
The aim of this workshop is to investigate the role that AI plays within new scenarios that suffer from noise, are strongly human-centered and often require severe constraints in terms of computational costs and real-time processing, that are especially brought by new wearable devices and sensing technologies employed in the field of human-machine interaction.

You can contribute to the workshop by submitting ideas, position, short or regular papers until September 30, 2022.

Visit the workshops websites for more details (here we have not event touched the tip of the iceberg).

See you in Udine!

Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society

On November 29, 2021, the MMSP group has partecipated to the 10th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society co-located with the AIxIA 2021 conference.

Professor Francesca Gasparini served as one of the Workshop Chairs, besides being a very active part of the whole conference organization and co-author of the MMSP presented works.

Alessandra Grossi, Aurora Saibene, and Marta Giltri made their presentations on age classification based on physiological signals, novel EEG-based BCIs for elderly rehabilitation, and affectivity and proxemic distances, considering also an agent based modeling approach.

Stay tuned to get the links to the recorded sessions of our talks!
Aurora

International Workshop on the risks and challenges of neurotechnologies for human rights

On November 23 and 24, 2021, Professor Francesca Gasparini and I have partecipated as invited speakers to the International Workshop on the risks and challenges of neurotechnologies for human rights with a work entitled BCIs and wearables: reliability, ethics and security from a computer scientist to a multi-disciplinary point of view.

If you have lost the workshop, you can watch the recorded sessions at

• https://youtu.be/ALhkaKPuAZA
• https://youtu.be/tqFn_MUK-4w

After two days of intensive discussions we have come to the conclusion that ethical issues arising from the use of neurotechnologies require the attention of a multidisciplinary community and thus we thank the organizers, Doctor Marta Maria Sosa Navarro, Doctor Salvador Dura-Bernal and Doctor Carla Maria Gulotta, for having provided such a great occasion to exchange ideas with researchers from very differnt domains.

Looking forward to new opportunities to discuss these topics!
Aurora

Joint lab meeting with the Data and Signal Processing research group!

We are very happy to have been able to organize the joint lab meeting with the Data and Signal Processing research group of the Universitat De Vic.
We really enjoyed all the presentations and we have been able to discuss about many research fields.

Looking forward to have a new joint meeting in the near future!

Thanks to Aurora Saibene, Pere Martí Puig, Marta Giltri, Francesca Gasparini, Jordi Solé-Casals, Alessandra Grossi, Chiara Capra and Alejandro Blanco for the great day!

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society (AIxAS 2020)

The MMSP group is actively participating in the workshop Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society (AIxAS 2020) co-located with AI*IA 2020.

Contributions from different research fields are extremely encouraged, wanting to find new ideas for AI application.

Please, notice that the paper submission deadline is September 20th, 2020.

In the following, you may find more details.
We hope to see your contributions soon!

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AI*AS 2020 – Call for Papers

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Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society

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Anywhere, November 25th-27th, 2020 – Co-located with AI*IA 2020

http://aixas2020.istc.cnr.it/

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Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society (AIxAS 2020)

Increased life expectancy is an achievement of modern society in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Countries (and recently in developing Countries) thanks to the technological progress in health, living places and quality of food. The aggregate consequence of the prolongation of the life-time span is the growth of an ageing society, testified by several demographic studies. The study of the consequences of an ageing society on the future of social living had recently been considered by large world institutions (UN, EU), which addressed and designed programs for social and technological development taking into account the impact of the ageing society in the future of the world. Within this framework, topics such as “prolonging independent living”, “ageing well”, or “social inclusion” are increasingly becoming more and more relevant. Several initiatives all over the world took care of these aspects focusing on the problem of developing a new generation of innovative technologies to face an ageing society and its growing needs. One of the most consolidated programs is known as “active and healthy ageing”, supported by the H2020 research area that recently also launched a call on adaptive smart working and living environments supporting active and healthy ageing. In this scenario, Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and techniques have and will have a pivotal role, due to the advanced goals of the discipline and its inner cross-disciplinary attitude, in order to deliver innovative and impacting results and related technologies. Facing the problems of an ageing society requires a cross-disciplinary approach, too. The development of new AI-based solutions to support and help older adults to cope with the changes of ageing and cognitive decline represents one of the most advanced ICT areas in the AI field. Robotics, Assistive Technology for Cognition, Sensor-based Monitoring Systems, Compensation Systems, Road Security, Continuous Learning and Navigation Supports for in-and-outdoor Systems are the fields where AI may challenge its solutions and contribute to innovative technological changes.

The workshop calls for contributions from experts in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and from crossing disciplines involved in the development of AI-based researches and technologies for the ageing society in (but not only) the following areas:

• Activity monitoring systems (indoor and outdoor)
• Object and Activity recognition
• Human-environment and human-robot interaction
• Novel sensors and actuators
• Smart environments (indoor and outdoor)
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• Personalization of AI Services for older adults
• Intelligent and Cognition-based User Interaction
• Advanced Data Analysis Techniques and Information Fusion
• Ageing, mobility and transportation
• Ethical issues in AI domains for Ageing Society
• AI techniques applied to AAL scenarios

HISTORY

This workshop is the ninth event organized by the AI and Ageing Society working group.

Previous workshop:

2019 – Rende (CS), Italy (co-located with AI*IA’19)

2018 – Trento, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’18)

2017 – Bari, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’17)

2016 – Genova, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’16)

2014 – Pisa, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’14)

2013 – Torino, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’13)

2011 – Palermo, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’11)

2010 – Brescia, Italy (co-located with AI*IA’10)

PAPER SUBMISSION

We welcome two categories of paper submission: Short papers (5-9 pages), Regular papers (above 10 pages).

Papers should be formatted according to the CEUR-ART style which is available for LaTeX and DOCX.

The style is available via our proceedings volume template at
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/
Overleaf users can clone the style from
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt
Offline versions for LaTeX and DOCX are available from
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

Submissions will be managed via Easychair at the following link, selecting the track AI for an Ageing Society:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixia2020

PUBLICATIONS

• CEUR-WS Proceedings

Papers will be published in the AIxIA series of CEUR-WS.  AI*IA Series on CEUR-WS.org

• Springer’s LNAI Post-proceedings of selected and revised papers

Authors of selected papers, accepted to the workshops, will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work to appear in a volume of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).

• Journal of Intelligenza Artificiale Special Issue

Following the tradition of the last editions, a selection of the best papers, accepted for the presentation at the workshops, will be invited to submit an extended version for publication on “Intelligenza Artificiale”, the International Journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, edited by IOS Press and indexed by Thomson Reuters’ “Emerging Sources Citation Index” and Scopus by Elsevier.

FORMAT OF THE VIDEO PRESENTATIONS

Authors of accepted papers at the workshop will be requested to provide a video recorded presentation of their work. Presentations will be available to all members of the association. Videos must have a length between 5 and 8 minutes. The video should be in MP4 format (1280×720). More details will be published here.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: September 20th, 2020.

Notification to authors: October 16th, 2020.

Camera ready submission: October 30th, 2020.

Video and slides of the presentation: November 10th, 2020.

ATTENDING

The conference will be fully virtual.

Workshop Attendance

The workshop is asynchronous. The authors’ presentations will have the form of short videos (5 – 8 minutes) broadcasted through some cloud platform or video platform. Videos and slides of the presentations will be made available to the participants 4 – 5 days before the events.

Nevertheless, each workshop will have a time colocation and authors’ presentations will have a schedule as usual. Each person interprets the schedule in their own time zone. The aim of the schedule is: (i) to get a commitment to spend time watching talks and engaging with comments; and (ii) to create synchronisation, allowing for some discussion and social interaction. Authors are expected to regularly monitor and respond to questions and comments on their presented paper.

Interaction among the authors and the participants and among the participants themselves will be achieved through a collaborative and communicative platform by means of dedicated channels/threads for each paper, chat rooms, or the like. The chosen platform is SLACK and the attendees are expected to watch the video for a talk and then feel free to post questions and comments through the platform.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Filippo Palumbo (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Francesca Gasparini (MMSP-DiSCO, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy)

Francesca Fracasso (ISTC-CNR, Roma, Italy)