<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">[Apologies for multiple postings]<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font size="4" class="">CARE2020, International Workshop on pattern recognition for positive technology and elderly wellbeing</font></span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="background-color: white;">In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020) </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Milan, Italy September 13th, 2020</span></div><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><div class="">Submission deadline June 15, 2020</div><div class="">Workshop website: <a href="http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/CARE2020" class=""><span class="" style="color: blue;">http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/CARE2020</span></a> </div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Submission link: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2020" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: blue;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=care2020</span></a></div></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">ICPR website: </span><a href="https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: blue;">https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS </span><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Prof. </span><b class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Andrea Gaggioli</b><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;"> (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy) </span><i class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><b class="">Positive AI: Opportunities and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence in digital wellbeing application</b></i></span></li><li class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Prof. <b class="">Hatice Gunes</b> (University of Cambridge, UK) </span><i class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><b class="">Creating Technology with Socio-emotional Intelligence</b></i></span></li></ul><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">ABOUT CARE 2020 </span><br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Life expectancy horizon is in continuous growth, with an arising socio-economical needs of supporting the aging population. If this is stimulating a considerable research effort in the ICT field, there is a big gap between the complexity of available ICT devices and the needs of fragile individuals.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Positive Technology (PT) is a new paradigm investigating how ICT-based applications and services can be used to foster positive growth of individuals, organizations, and society. It refers to technologies designed for improving the quality of personal experience with the goal of increasing wellness, and generating strengths and resilience in individuals, organizations, and society.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">PT could be framed in the wider notion of Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) while focusing on the holistic wellness of people, taking into account the cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing. Thanks to the advances in sensor technologies, and scientific findings, this field is in rapid growing and its application for monitoring and promote elderly wellbeing has become a concrete possibility.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">CARE2020 aims at bringing together the most recent advances of Intelligent Systems for PT and elderly wellbeing.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">LIST OF TOPICS </span><br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This workshop aims at bringing together the most recent advances of Intelligent Systems, for Positive Technology and elderly wellbeing, investigating a wide range of topics covering (but not limited to) the following:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal">Emotion recognition<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Social interaction analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Facial expression analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Body gesture analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Human behaviour analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Physiological signal analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Ecological datasets<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Mood induction<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Virtual reality as a positive technology</span><o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Intelligent cognitive assistants<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Activities of Daily Living recognition<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Emotion-aware ambient intelligence<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal">Natural Human-Computer Interaction<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES <br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 9pt; background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. </span>The following paper categories are welcome:<o:p class=""></o:p></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Full papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""> (12-15 pages, including references)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Short papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""> (6-8 pages, including references)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the </span><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: blue;">Springer's Computer Science Proceedings guidelines</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="">. </span>Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop Proceedings Springer volume. <span lang="EN-US" class="">Once accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the event and present the paper. </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="background-color: white;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">IMPORTANT DATES <br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><div style="background-color: white;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Workshop submission deadline: June 15, 2020</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Workshop author notification: July 15, 2020</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Camera-ready submission: July 30, 2020</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Finalized workshop program: August 15, 2020</span></li></ul><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; background-color: white;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""> <br class="">VENUE<br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">The ICPR2020 conference will be held at MiCo Milan Congress Center, Piazzale Carlo Magno 1, Milan, Italy.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE </span><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Raffaella Lanzarotti (Università degli Studi di Milano)</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Nicoletta Noceti (Università degli Studi di Genova)</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Claudio de'Sperati (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano)</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Francesca Odone (Università degli Studi di Genova)</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Giuliano Grossi (Università degli Studi di Milano)</span></li></ul><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">CONTACT<br class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">All questions about submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:care2020@di.unimi.it" class=""><span class="" style="color: blue;">care2020@di.unimi.it</span></a></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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