Intelligent Cars on Digital Roads – Frontiers in Machine Intelligence

Mobility is currently dominated by a number of powerful trends. Urbanization and de-carbonization are calling for new concepts. Autonomous driving, electromobility, car sharing, and digital information and communication technologies have begun to fundamentally change the landscape. Beyond sustainability, competition is increasingly focusing on all-encompassing service, maximized use of drive time, digital real-time economy and deep integration within the internet of things.
Here, artificial intelligence is finding some exciting and challenging application areas - under the hood and quite visibly at the surface, alike. Beyond industrialization of state-of-the-art sensor technologies, advances in machine learning and computer vision are behind all but most breakthroughs in autonomous driving. Means to organize personal mobility and intelligently deliver a wealth of digital services along the way are skills to be developed by emerging Intelligent Personal Assistants. And cognitive capabilities are promising to let the robots in our cars interact with humans in a natural, intuitive way.

The future of intelligent cars has just begun – help shape it during this exciting summer school.

This year, the summer school will particularly focus on emerging trends in affective computing and the challenges and opportunities  in designing EVA – Emotion-aware Vehicle Assistants. We are soliciting original poster contributions on human centric interaction design, emotion awareness, emotion sensing and respective sensor technologies, in-vehicle sensate environments, interactive furniture, cognitive models, interactive learning, reinforcement learning for personalization and recommender systems, data analytics for emotion-aware systems, psychology of passengers in autonomous vehicles, privacy, and consciousness, human mind and ethics of emotion-aware systems, conversational commerce, semantic models for service architectures, semantic IoT, and new business models driven by advances in artificial intelligence.

We are inviting international PhD students and young researchers with a keen interest in shaping the future of individual mobility to submit their poster. The BMW Summer School is encouraging multi-disciplinary discussion and hence is calling for contributions from all fields – from computer science to electrical engineering, from economics to legal, from sociology to psychology and philosophy.

Venue.

The 6th french-german summer school on "Intelligent Cars on Digital Roads - Frontiers in Machine Intelligence" will be taking place at Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach, Germany.

For registration fees and the grant policy for fee waivers and travel support please see the full web page.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Posters describing original work, ideas, concepts in the area of digital mobility with a praticular focus on emotion-aware intelligent personal assistant.
   

List of Topics

• Affective computing: sensing and reacting to emotion and body
• Conversational commerce and new business models driven by advances in artificial intelligence
• User centric design / user experience
• Emotion sensing, sensor technologies, sensor data fusion
• Interaction concepts and interaction design
• Cognitive models
• Cognitive IoT
• Machine Learning, interactive and reinforcement learning, recommender systems
• Data analytics
• Psychology in autonomous vehicles
• Privacy
• Semantic technologies
• Learning for intelligent agents
• Knowledge management for intelligent agents
• Consciousness
• Ethics of emotion-aware intelligent systems
• Conversational commerce
• New business models driven by advances in artificial intelligence

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Ulrich Finger, EURECOM (chair)
• Prof. Andreas Herkersdorf, TUM (co-chair)
• Martin Arend, BMW Group (co-chair)
• Dr. Hannemor Keidel, TUM
• Prof. Jörg Ott, TUM
• Prof. Jérôme Härri, Eurecom
• Prof. Benoit Huet, Eurecom
• Prof. Raphaël Troncy, Eurecom
• Dr. Reinhard Stolle, BMW Group
• Dr. Hans-Jörg Vögel, BMW Group

Organizing committee

• Dr. H.-J. Vögel, BMW Group (chair)
• Prof. Jérôme Härri, Eurecom
• Axel Honsdorf, BayFrance
• Christine Astor, BMW Group
• Paul Alibert, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Développement International
• Salazar Gonzalez Marco Antonio, BMW Group

Invited Speakers (t.b.c)

NOTE: all speaking commitments are preliminary and subject to change

• Asaf Adi, IBM Haifa
• Ann Morrison, USQ
• Björn Schuller, UAU
• Elisabeth André, UAU
• Jacques Terken, TUE
• Susanne Müller, Munich School of Philosophy
• Jane Vita, Digitalist Group
• Loren Schwarz, BMW Group
• Thomas Hubregtsen, BMW Group
• Christine Astor, BMW Group
• Michal Kuemmel, BMW Group
• Benoit Huet, Eurecom
• Raphaël Troncy, Eurecom
• Jörg Conradt, TUM
• Florian Eyben, audEERING
• Jonas Beskow, KTH
• Samer Al Moubayed, Furhat Robotics
• Alexander Krüger, Microsoft

Venue

The conference will be held in Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach, Bavaria, Germany.

Contact

Please contact the organizers via the conference mail at eva-2018{at}easychair.org

Sponsors

The conference is co-organized by Bayerisch-Französisches Hochschulzentrum BayFrance and sponsored by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule DFH.