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"Intelligent Cars on Digital Roads – Frontiers in Machine Intelligence"
Focus on “Emotion-aware Vehicle Assistants”
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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 (digital) 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 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, conversational commerce and new business models driven by advances in artificial intelligence.
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 see https://easychair.org/cfp/EVA-2018
For further details incl. a preliminary programme please refer to the summer school’s website http://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.

In case of questions, please contact the organizing committee at eva-2018@easychair.org

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