Special Sessions

HSI 2021 will include Special Sessions on highly specialized topic areas reporting technical trends and breakthroughs in human-system interaction. HSI 2021 cordially invites you to organize special sessions. Papers in these sessions undergo a regular review process as those in general sessions.

Special Sessions Chair:  Hui Yu (UK)

Special Sessions list:

1. Human system interaction in biomedical engineering
Organizer(s): Mariusz Kaczmarek, Gdańsk University of Technology, Paweł Strumiłło, Lodz University of Technology

With today’s diverse use and application of computers and specialized devices for specific tasks, such as biomechanical and biomedical devices, the interaction design requires special care. With the inclusion of embedded systems and intelligent devices based on artificial intelligence, such interaction must be extremely well thought out. The complexity of the systems, instrumentation and simulators that nowadays become available will increase. There is one more problem, realize that medical teams are becoming more dependent on technology so there is a danger that they will lose a lot of skills and rules. In this special session we will try to present several aspects, i.e. how to prevent the loss of skills, how to improve task analysis, hand-eye coordination, signal and image processing, visualization, instrument design and protocol definition for better human-computer / device interaction in the biomedical field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Internet of Things and Smart Devices in Health services
• Health Care and Assistive Devices
• Biomedical Signals for Human-Computer Interaction
• Human cognition (memory, perception, motor systems) and HCI
• Sensors and machine learning to improve human health and wellbeing

2. Human System Interaction Solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (HSIAAL 2021)
Organizer(s): Piotr Augustyniak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Adam Bujnowski, Gdańsk University of Technology, Alexey Andrushevich IHomeLab, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences

Ambient Assisted Living aims at extending the time older people could stay in their home environment by sustaining their autonomy. It would be achieved by assisting them in daily living activities and by developing “invisible” services including care ones. Among others, it’s seems that human system interaction achievements will determine a further development of AAL systems. The special session is devoted to the following, but not only limited to, topics:

• Intelligent environment, including AI,
• Personal health systems,
• Vital and environmental sensors, including IoT,
• Bio-signals acquisition and processing,
• Detection of occurrences, including model-based behavior monitoring,
• Assistance and information systems, including mobility and rehabilitation,
• Multimodal User Interfaces,
• Localisation/Navigation systems,
• Communication systems,
• Legal and economic aspects,
• Other.

3. Recent Advances on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Human System Interaction
Organizer(s):

Prof. Mounîm A. El Yacoubi, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France (mounim.el_yacoubi@telecom-sudparis.eu)
Prof. Mehdi Ammi, University of Paris 8, France (mehdi.ammi@univ-paris8.fr)
Dr Hassane Essafi, CEA List, France (hassane.essafi@cea.fr)
Prof. Hui Yu, University of Portsmouth, UK (hui.yu@port.ac.uk)

Thanks to the huge increase of computing power and resources and to the breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence and deep learning over the last years, the field of Human System Interaction has witnessed a dramatic development and success stories on a wide range of fields. The latter include but are not limited to Human Computer Interaction Mediated communication, Social Media, e Health WellBeing, Education, Biomet rics, Video Surveillance Cybersecurity, Smart Manufacturing, Coaching Robots Chatbots, Smart Agriculture, Robotics, Sport Analytics, Social Sciences, Entertainment, Finance. The aim of this special issue is to highlight recent advances and trends of AI /deep learning that made possible such breakthroughs in connection with machine interaction.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New Neural network Architecture Designs
• Representation Learning
• Multimodal representation learning for human machine interaction
• Transfer Learning and Adaptive Learning
• Explainability and Interpretability of Deep Learning Models
• Semi supervised Models
• Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Ethics and Fairness in AI
• Deep learning for health monitoring
• Deep learning for improving human experience

Contact:
Please email enquiries to Prof. Mounîm A. El Yacoubi (mounim.el_yacoubi@telecom-sudparis.eu)

4. Theory and Technologies on Human Factors in Advanced Human-Machine Environment
Organizer(s):

Feng Wang, wangfeng@cug.edu.cn, China University of Geosciences,
Jinhua She, she@stf.teu.ac.jp, Tokyo University of Technology,
Daisuke Chugo, chugo@kwansei.ac.jp, Kwansei Gakuin Univ.

Human Factors/ergonomics is a key concept to modeling, analyzing, and designing human-machine systems, in which human factors includes not only physical but also psychology aspects. A well-designed system not only has a good combination of sensing, decision-making, and control technologies, but also makes the best use of AI in human-machine interactions. We organize this special session to discuss resent studies and development in this field. Contributors are encouraged to submit their papers including modelling and methods from mechanical, electrical, environmental, biomedical, chemical, and physical aspects with a special focus on the effect of human factors.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Human interactions with environment
• Human-Robot cooperation
• Human-system interaction
• Human-support system
• Sensing and recognition
• Human factors in AI

Proposal content

If you intend to propose and organize a special session, please provide Special Sessions Chairs at hsi2021.ss@gmail.com with a proposal using the template, and including the following information:

1. Title of the Special Session
2. Brief description of the area of concern (approx. 100 words), with special focus on why we should believe this is an interesting and significant topic?
3. The name and contact information of special session organizers, who are willing to promote and organize a sufficient amount of quality submissions to the special session.
4. A list of potential authors and their affiliations
5. A list of international potential reviewers and their affiliations

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit a full paper up to 4-6 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single‐spaced), including figures and references, using font size 10, and page numbers. You can check the IEEE Proceedings Author Guidelines at:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html