International Workshop on Cognitive
Prostheses and Assisted Communication
(CPAC 2006)
January 29, 2006
Sydney, Australia
| Workshop Program | Online Proceedings |
Various prostheses have been developed to help people with physical
impairments, by replacing lost or underdeveloped abilities, and these
have played an important part in facilitating the person's social
participation. Providing prostheses for lost or underdeveloped
cognitive abilities, however, presents a challenge of a different
order. Some work on memory aids and daily schedule management systems
has shown promise, but progress in this field will depend upon keeping
up to date with our advancing knowledge about cognition generally as
well as emerging technologies which could be platforms for various
kinds of cognitive support. An interdisciplinary approach to this
programme of work will be essential in order to produce:
- Intelligent systems for augmenting or replacing impaired or
absent cognitive functions.
- User interfaces that makes it possible for cognitively impaired
people to make effective use of the support offered.
- Context-awareness that recognizes the situation of the
cognitively impaired person and detects appropriate moments for
offering support.
This workshop will offer the opportunity for researchers in the fields
of assistive technology, cognitive psychology, user interface design
and context-awareness to present the state of the art in each field
and to discuss an approach and a research agenda for realizing
effective cognitive prostheses.
While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with
experience or interest in Assistive Technology especially for
dementia people and their care, it is also crucial to have
participation by those with expertise in other areas such as
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interface Design,
Context-aware systems, and Cognitive Psychology.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Communication support systems for cognitive impaired and
elderly people
- Adaptation and personalization (such as adaptive contents, search
and interface)
- Personalized assistance for the cognitive impaired (such as memory aids and scheduler management systems)
- Evaluation methods for cognitive prostheses systems (tracking users,
quantitative and qualitative methods)
- Cognitive psychology
for dementia care
- Application of artificial intelligence techniques (such as planning, inference, and recognition)
- Application of context-aware systems and ambient intelligence
- User modeling and behavior understanding from observation
- Quality of life of the cognitive impaired and their caregivers
- Design methodologies for cognitive prostheses (e.g., participation of stakeholders from different backgrounds in the design process)
- Application of Internet to a platform for cognitive prostheses
- Sensory media interface
- Community support for the cognitive impaired and their caregivers
- Tangible interface for the cognitive impaired and elderly
- Ontologies for cognitive prostheses
- Integration with medical information systems
- User acceptance of the technologies in care settings
- Cognitive rehabilitation
This will be an all day workshop with invited speakers, technical
presentations, demonstrations sessions. Authors of accepted papers
will present their work, and audience questions and discussion
follow. Demonstrations will illustrate one or more aspects of a
leading-edge system that is in use, under development, or in a
testing or prototype stage, and audience questions and discussion
follow. Submission of a paper is not required for attendance at the
workshop. However, in the event that the workshop cannot accommodate
all who would like to participate, those who have submitted a paper
will be given priority for registration. All workshop attendees must
pay the IUI 2006 workshop registration fee, as well as the
conference registration fee. We encourage those who plan to attend
this workshop, to register early in order to help conference
organizers with their planning as well as insure that the workshop
is not cancelled do to projected poor attendance.
- Norman Alm, University of Dundee (United Kingdom)
- Shinji Abe, ATR IRC Labs. (Japan)
- Noriaki Kuwahara, ATR IRC Labs. (Japan)
- Sue Balandin, Sydney University (Australia)
- Joseph F. Coughlin, MIT AgeLab (U.S.A.)
- Joy Goodman, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
- Motoichiro Kato, Keio University (Japan)
- Henry Kautz, University of Washington (U.S.A.)
- Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR IRC Labs. (Japan)
- Michael J. Lyons, ATR IRC Labs. (Japan)
- Andrew Monk, University of York (United Kingdom)
- Siriwan Suebnukarn, Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand)
- Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University (Japan)
- Yasuyuki Yanagida, Meijo University (Japan)
- Kiyoshi Yasuda, Chiba Rosai Hospital (Japan)
We invite two forms of submission to this
workshop:
Format required for submissions:
Full technical papers should
not exceed six pages in length, while the body of demo papers should
not exceed three pages. Submissions should be sent in PDF to the
primary contact address (e-mail: 
). Please use the ACM IUI paper format for
submissions. Details on this format are available at http://www.iuiconf.org/instructions.htm.
- November 21, 2005: Workshop paper submissions due (<< deadline extended!)
- December 5, 2005: Workshop paper notification to authors
- December 23, 2005: Camera-ready version due
- January 29, 2006: Workshop
Please send any questions or comments to Noriaki Kuwahara. (e-mail: )
Last update: January 20, 2006