Overview

In the last decade, the spreading of low-cost technologies integrating sensors and actuators has favored the development of the so-called smart objects. This trend has been further fostered by the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects the physical world with Internet via ubiquitous sensors and actuators. The opportunities offered by the IoT are amplified by the use of new approaches that, based on novel interaction paradigms, involve directly non-technical users in configuring the joint behavior of their smart objects, among them and with online services. Existing solutions to define the behavior of such “IoT ecosystems” range from systems that leave the users complete control for establishing the joint behavior of smart objects, to solutions that automatically define smart objects behavior exploiting intelligent techniques. In this continuum, different technologies, frameworks, and approaches present different levels of user control and automation. In this perspective it is also important to consider the emerging role played by social and humanoid robots, which are integrated sets of sensors and actuators with human-like behaviours.

Workshop program

Presentations should be about 10/12 minutes long with 3/5 minutes of Q&A

Time Title/Activity
09.00 - 09.30 Welcome and Introduction
09.30 - 09.45 Fabrizio Balducci, Paolo Buono, Maria F. Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Nicole Novielli and Antonio Piccinno - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
An Interactive Game Supported by IoT Devices to Improve Visiting Experiences of Cultural Sites
09.45 - 10.00 Benedetta Catricalà, Davide Coffaro, Marco Manca, Andrea Mattioli, Fabio Paterno and Carmen Santoro - ISTI-CNR
An Approach to Exploiting Personal Memories in Humanoid Robots Serious Games for Cognitive Stimulation of Older Adults
10.00 - 10.15 Lorans Alabood and Frank Maruer - University of Calgary
An IoT-based immersive smart home system for seniors with neurocognitive disorders
10.15 - 10.30 Azeema Yaseen and Joseph Timoney - Maynooth University
Possibilities Emerging on the Trajectory from IoT to IoMusT: Enabling Ubiquitous Musical Interactions for Wellbeing
10.30 - 10.45 Bernardo Breve, Gaetano Cimino and Vincenzo Deufemia - University of Salerno
Towards Explainable Security for ECA Rules
10.45 - 11.00 Ren Manfredi, Margherita Andrao, Massimo Zancanaro, Barbara Treccani, Giuseppe Desolda (Univ. of Bari) and Francesco Greco (Univ. of Bari) - University of Trento
Toward a better understanding of End-User Debugging strategies: a pilot study
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 11.45 Andrés Domínguez Hernández - University of Bristol
Position Paper: On Being Specific About Internet of Things Users and Non-users
11.45 - 12.00 Federica Cena, Cristina Gena, Claudio Mattutino, Fabiana Vernero, Michele Mioli, Massimo Zancanaro (Univ. of Trento) and Barbara Treccani - University of Turin
Incorporating personality traits in user modeling for EUD
12.00 - 12.15 Thomas M. Prinz - University of Jena
Why Users of the Internet of Things need Error-Avoiding Modeling Languages and Queries
12.15 - 12.30 Diego Morra and Mehdi Rizvi - Politecnico di Milano
Enhancing Students' Critical Reflection on Smart Things Design Through an End-User Development Toolkit
12.30 - 13.00 Brainstorming and Discussion I
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch with all participants
14.30 - 15.00 Brainstorming and Discussion II
15.00 - 15.30 Future directions & Wrap-up
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30 Presentation of challenges
16.30 - 17.00 Presentation of the results
17.00 - 17.30 Agenda definition & Publications

Submissions

This will be a one-day workshop, oriented towards discussions, hands-on sessions, and presentations. We invite submissions of two types: short papers (3-4 pages) and position papers (1-2 pages). Participants are asked to submit their paper describing their recent or future work in one of the areas indicated in the topics of interest. All submissions must be in the new ACM master article template, downloadable from one of the following links:

  • Microsoft Word
  • LaTeX (Use sample-manuscript.tex inside the samples folder for submissions)
  • Overleaf (Select ACM Conference Proceedings “Master” Template)
Papers should be submitted in PDF to easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=empathy2022). All papers will be reviewed by the organizers and by the program committee based on relevance and significance in order to provide constructive comments to the submitters. Reviewing will be single blind (i.e. author names and affiliations should be listed). If accepted, at least one of the authors must register and attend the workshop.
Final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), which is indexed by Scopus.

Organizers

Fabrizio Balducci is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bari (website: http://ivu.di.uniba.it/people/balducci.htm). His research interests include HCI, Pattern Recognition, Mobile software and UX. He has been TPC member of several international conferences, Online Experience co-Chair for IFIP INTERACT 2021, Associate Chair for ACM CHIPlay 2020, 2021 and serves as Associate Editor for the international journal SAGE Simulation & Gaming.

Bernardo Breve is a PhD Student at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data science, and Human-Computer Interaction, with emphasis on usable security and privacy for end-users. He has been a member of the program committee of the International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages since 2020, where he served as Publicity co-Chair and Program co-Chair in 2021 and 2022, respectively. He also serves as a reviewer for international journals, such as Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), and ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb).

Federica Cena is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin (http://www.di.unito.it/~cena). She works on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. In the last years, she is mainly devoted in studying the implications of Internet of Things for user modeling and personalisation, with a special focus on assistive applications for cognitive disabilities and frailty. She is the author of more than 100 scientific publications at conferences and in international journals.

Andrea Mattioli is a research fellow at CNR-ISTI, HIIS Laboratory and a PhD student in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa. His research interests are in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, specifically in personalization for IoT applications, augmented reality and recommendation systems for smart environments. He serves as a reviewer for international journals and conferences, such as ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), and International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI).

Mehdi Rizvi is a postdoc researcher at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/details/1636220). Rizvi’s research focuses on the design of interdisciplinary tools and platforms for citizens and domain-experts. Such tools often either follow the no-code/low-code paradigm, or tangible interaction, or are in the form of conversational agents, making the interaction by end-users easier. Outcomes of his work have been published in various international research journals and conference proceedings, and also have been exhibited to general public in interactive art exhibitions.