<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span id="gmail-m_-4970019926474525108gmail-docs-internal-guid-b4876f46-a588-5e41-cec3-fe733aab1bdf"><p style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Call for papers</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">The Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS’18) Workshop at PerCom 2018 aims to advance and promote research about how unobtrusive observation of human beings’ cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and contextual data is increasingly enabling new computing experiences and effective intervention opportunities. The workshop will additionally stimulate dialog about the implications of computational sensing for society. Sensing has primarily been understood as collecting physiological measurements, often with wearable devices. This workshop adopts a broader, human-focused view of sensing as capturing any measurable data linked to individuals and, by extension, to their communities. With this understanding, sensing involves human reactions and interactions observed in spoken, written, or signed language, eye gaze, facial and bodily expressions, social networks, geospatial patterns, and other such human-generated data. Advances in multimodal human data acquisition and fusion have the potential to significantly impact all areas of human life including productivity, health and well-being, training and education, human-computer interaction, accessibility, safety and security, as well as gaming, sports, and entertainment.</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Topics include but are not limited to:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Novel methodologies for collecting, processing, and interpreting multimodal human sensing data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-sensing of multiple individuals, groups, or communities</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proximal, distant, or remote human sensing</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fusion of multifaceted, heterogeneous, and/or incommensurable human sensing data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Performance efficiency across hardware and cloud contexts</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications of human-centered computational sensing</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:bas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am Coordinator<br>Department of Computer Science<br>Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences<br>Rochester Institute of Technology<br>102 Lomb Memorial Drive<br>Rochester, NY, 14623-5608<br><br><div>Phone: (585) 475-6181<br>Email: <a href="mailto:rjb@cs.rit.edu" target="_blank">rjb@cs.rit.edu</a></div><div>Office: GOL-3015<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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