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4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance

In conjunction with Ubicomp / ISWC 2019
9 September 2019, London, UK.
Summary

Ubiquitous personal assistance (UPA) refers to the next era of digital personal assistants. Specifically, UPA refines and complements the concept of IPA by considering
(i) advanced personalization (including detection of user’s intents), (ii) proactive or even autonomous support, (iii) a single point of ubiquitous assistance, (iv) the combination of different coordinated assistants and assistance use cases, and (v) the unobtrusive integration of the user in the loop to adjust the underlying machine learning models. 


The Fourth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Personal Assistance (UPA’19) aims to continue discussing the latest research developments and outcomes on digital personal assistants, building on the success of our three previous workshops, organized in conjunction with UbiComp’16-18. 

​The goal of the workshop is to provide a structured space to discuss the challenges, latest research developments and outcomes of digital personal assistants in relation to the different areas of human- centric assistance. In particular, we wish to put forward the discussion on how digital assistants can provide unobtrusive 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 digital assistants that better fit each particular user. 



Location

London, UK.
Important dates
Submission deadline
June 28, 2019 (23:59 AoE)

Paper notification
July 10, 2019

Camera-ready deadline
July 12, 2019

Workshop date
September 9, 2019

Keynote speaker

#Bio
Francisco Nunes is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. He holds a Master in Informatics from the University of Porto (2010), and PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from TU Wien (2017). His research focuses on understanding the everyday practices of patients and carers, using qualitative fieldwork, and designing technologies for self-care and informal care contexts, using participatory research approaches.


#Keynote talk "Towards Mundane Personal Assistants"
Personal assistants have become more and more common in our homes and pockets. These technologies have the potential to support our everyday lives in meaningful ways, however, personal assistants will need to support more than "trivial" activities of our lives, such as adjusting the air conditioning temperature or start playing music. In this keynote I will provide some clues on how to design personal assistants that truly support our everyday lives in practical terms. Drawing on fieldwork with people living with chronic or long-term conditions, I will make the case for mundane self-care technologies that focus on supporting and enhancing the lives of patients and carers in practical terms. The insights from this fieldwork should motivate attendees to look into practical ways of supporting the lives of users of personal assistants, contributing to a novel generation of these technologies.
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