The DSAI conference dates have been changed to 13-15 November 2024 (dsai.ws/2024).

The Paper submission deadline is 15th May, 2024

To submit your original work to this special track, use the following link:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DSAI2024/Track/19/Submission/Create

All accepted papers of the DSAI 2024 conference will be submitted for publishing to ACM and indexed by the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI, Web of Science™).

UPDATED IMPORTANT DATES:
• May 15, 2024 – Paper Submission
• July 15, 2024 – Notification of Paper Acceptance
• July 30, 2024 – Registration and Camera-Ready Papers

More information on submissions can be found at: https://dsai.ws/2024/submissions

Special Track 1 – Accessible and Inclusive Smart Environments

Description:

Technology is strongly present all around us, not only in the devices we carry but also increasingly embedded in the environments where we work and live. These smart environments have the great potential of improving people’s lives, by enabling a more comfortable, secure, healthy, independent, and active living. However, challenges remain in ensuring that smart environments are truly usable, acceptable, accessible, and inclusive.

These challenges include providing accessible and adaptable interaction that considers the potentially diverse set of users (with different capabilities, needs, preferences, and emotions) and contexts of smart environments. There are also still challenges related to unobtrusive monitoring and support that allow certain groups of users (e.g., younger, older, people with a given impairment) to live in a more active, independent, or safe way.

In this context, the aim of this special track is to provide new perspectives in this field, by exchanging and discussing ideas and research in different topics relevant to DSAI that can bring valuable insights to address the accessibility and inclusiveness of smart environments.
These topics include, but are not limited to:
• Active, healthy, assisted living
• Human-centred computing
• Multimodal and adaptive interaction
• User and context awareness
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Extended reality
• Affective computing
• Assistive technologies

Intended Audience:
This special track is directed at researchers and practitioners who are interested in participating in the exchange and discussion of ideas, as well as contributing to the design, implementation, and assessment of novel innovative solutions for the next generations of smart environments.