** UPA'20 - 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS PERSONAL ASSISTANCE

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in conjunction with UbiComp 2020, Cancun, Mexico

13 September 2020


https://upa20.weebly.com/

Contact:
upa(at)tk.tu-darmstadt.de
or
sanchez(at)tk.tu-darmstadt.de


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. 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 smarter digital assistants that better fit each particular user.



** IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: 6 July 2020 (23:59 AoE)

Author Notification: 24 July 2020

Camera-ready Version: 31 July 2020

Workshop Date: 12 or 13 September 2020



** TOPICS
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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 including 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



** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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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.
The link to the submission management system will be announced later.



** PUBLICATION
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The accepted papers will be published in supplemental proceedings of the UbiComp/ISWC 2020 conference and included in the ACM Digital Library.



** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Alejandro Sanchez Guinea (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Usman Naeem (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
* Philipp M. Scholl (University of Freiburg, Germany)
* Elena Di Lascio (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
* Pei-Yi (Patricia) Kuo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
* Veljko Pejović (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
* Alexander Seeliger (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Cristina Mihale-Wilson (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
* Muhammad Awais Azam (Whitecliffe Technologies, NZ)
* Max Mühlhäuser (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Christian Meurisch (TU Darmstadt, Germany)