The IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition

Program and Awards

Three new submissions to the workshops will be chosen for Distinguished Contribution Awards of $2,500 each. The winners of the awards will chosen from among the talks and posters, and will be announced at the workshop.

The workshop will run from 8:30am to 6:00pm on Sunday, July 12, 2009. It will be held in Ballroom F of the Ballroom Building of the Pasadena Convention Center.

Anyone not already registered for the workshop can do so onsite, beginning at 7:30 am on Saturday, July 11 in the foyer of the Ballroom Building.

Program & Schedule in PDF Format


Invited Talks (2007 MSR grant competition winners)

Anind Dey. Supporting Alzheimer's Patients through Memory Augmentation.

Gondy Leroy, Gianluca De Leo. An Online Community for Teachers to Support, Observe, Collect and Evaluate Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Perry Cook. Mixed-Initiative Visual Vocabulary Application for People with Aphasia.

Amedeo Cesta. A Software Framework for Domestic Cognitive Training Services.

Gregory Abowd, James Rehg, Rosa Arriaga. Behavioral Imaging Technologies to Support Early Detection of ASD.

Alan Liu, Harlan Hile, Gaetano Borriello, Pat Brown, Mark Harniss and Kurt Johnson. Automatic Direction Selection in a Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

Talks from Submitted Papers

Alessandra Mileo and Roberto Bisiani. Context aware Prediction and Prevention to Extend Healthy Life Years: Preventing Falls

Mark Riedl, Jackie Isbell, Rosa Arriaga, Fatima Boujarwah, Hwajung Hong and L. Juane Heflin. Toward Assisted Authoring of Social Skill Scenarios for Young Adults with High Functioning Autism

Jesse Hoey, Brandi Richards, Scott Blunsden, Jane Burns, Tom Bartindale, Dan Jackson, Patrick Olivier, Jennifer Boger and Alex Mihailidis. ePAD: Engaging Platform for Art Development

Richard Levinson, Craig Harman, Henry Kautz and Dave Halper. A Conversational Cognitive Aid with Activity Monitoring, Planning and Execution

Jeremy Bauchet, Sylvain Giroux, Helene Pigot, Dany Lussier-Desrochers, Yves Lachapelle and Mounir Mokhtari. For some useful and usable acts of assistance when guiding people with cognitive impairments to complete activities

Posters from Submitted Papers

Maxime La Placa, Helene Pigot and Froduald Kabanza. Assistive planning for people with cognitive impairments

Stephen Thielke, Mark Harniss and Hilaire Thompson. Health-Related Technologies, Core Human Needs, and Behavioral Change

Adriana Tapus, Cristian Tapus and Maja Mataric. Music Therapist Robot: A Solution for Helping People with Cognitive Impairments

Keith Purrington, James Boerkoel and Edmund Durfee. Solving Decoupled Constraint Optimization Problems for Online Cognitive Orthotic Scheduling Agents

Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Seth Teller, and Qiang Yang. Semi Supervised Localization via Action Respecting Manifold