The IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition

Held at the 2009 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Sunday, July 12, 2009 in Pasadena, CA, USA

New: Information for Authors

Accepted authors of talks or posters are invited to submit camera-ready copy for the workshop working notes. Submissions should be in IJCAI conference style and emailed to kautz@cs.rochester.edu by May 15.

The working notes are not for citation, and are not considered a publication for professional purposes.

New: Workshop Program

The list of accepted talks and posters is now posted.

New: Registration Information

Registration is now open for the workshop at the IJCAI 2009 web site. All authors must register. This is workshop number W18, and is one day long. Attendance at this workshop is not restricted, anyone is welcome to register and attend. You may register for both the workshop and the conference (best value), or for the workshop only.

It is also possible to register for several one-day workshops. To do this, after selecting "add to cart" for the first workshop, click on "continue shopping", and then click on "add to cart" again. Your cart will now include slots for registering for two workshops.

If you are attending this workshop, please consider also attending these other related workshops:

W17: INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTION
Monday, July 13, 2009

W28: PLAN, ACTIVITY, AND INTENT RECOGNITION (PAIR-09)
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Overview

There is an emerging field of interdisciplinary research on devices and environments designed to help people with cognitive disabilities due to aging, disease, or accident live with greater independence, safety, and community integration. This field, sometimes called "cognitive orthotics" or "assisted cognition", is inherently interdisciplinary, and involves researchers from computer science (including artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and pervasive computing), medical caregiving (including gerontology, rehabilitation medicine, nursing, and public health), rehabilitation engineering, and architecture and design.

Today's assistive technology for people with cognitive impairments has limited functionality (for example, simple timer-based reminder systems) or requires extensive manual customization (for example, wander-alert systems that sound an alarm if a user moves out of a pre-designated neighborhood). Researchers are beginning to envision systems that will use a variety of wearable or environmental sensors to infer a user's context and cognitive state, so that prompts, reminders, and other forms of automatic intervention will be appropriate and non-distracting. Machine learning will be used to create customized user profiles with little manual input, and to update profiles as users' conditions change. Tasks that will be addressed include navigation, remediation of memory impairments, behavioral self-regulation, and monitoring and guidance in the performance of activities of daily living.

This workshop will bring together researchers in AI who traditionally attend IJCAI with researchers from the pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, universal access, and medical communities. Thanks to the support of our sponsors, the workshop will provide cash awards to distinguished submissions.