Workshop Theme

A workshop to disuss Humanitarian Activity from a broad perspective, including global warming, renewable energy, and the SDGs, with participants. The workshop is divided into two sessions. In the first half, each participant will give a presentation on an issue broadly related to Humanitarian Activity, using his or her own technology to find a solution. In the second half, participants will be divided into small groups for discussion, which may include in-depth discussions of the presentations by the presenters in the first half, or discussions of solutions to the other Humanitarian Activity issues using the participants' own technologies. This workshop is intended for those who are interested in Humanitarian Activity but have not yet started full-scale research, and for those who are motivated by the opinions of others and wish to apply them to their future research. Therefore, student presentations are also welcome. We also welcome those who are already conducting full-scale research on Humanitarian Activity. As for technology, the workshop is open to all those who are broadly involved in computing technology, such as neural networks, fuzzy and Evolutional computing, etc. This workshop is organized by the IEEE Tokyo Section SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology).

※This workshop will be held in WCCI ( https://2024.ieeewcci.org/ ) as one of IJCNN Workshops ( https://2024.ieeewcci.org/workshops )

Paper

Submitted papers will not be published in the WCCI proceedings, but will be produced as a HAW proceeding specifically for the Humanitarian Activities Workshop (HAW). You are also welcome to make a presentation without submitting a paper. 

The manuscript style should be the same as WCCI. ( https://2024.ieeewcci.org/submission )

Please check "LaTeX and Word Templates" and "Manuscript Style Information" on this page. The template is also available here.  

Page limitation is MAXIMUM 10 pages (No additional charge for this workshop).

The abstract (approximately 200 words) is required for all presenters. Please enter your abstract in the registration form for presenter.

Proceedings are available here [26th/June/2024]

Audiences

Those who wish to attend and participate in the discussion without presenting are also welcome.

Schedule

Date: 30th/Jun/2024

Program: 

-- 1st Session --  Presentation

8:30 – 8:50        Opening (Greetings + Introduction about SIGHT)

8:50 – 9:10        Takao TERANO (Chiba University of Commerce), “Generating Plausible Business Case from Agent-Based
                          Simulation”【Invited Talk】

9:10 – 9:30        Yasuhiro SOSHINO Ph.D (Head, Humanitarian Technology Unit, Disaster Management Research Institute,
                          Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing),

                          "AI Applications for Humanitarian Activities in the International Red Cross"【Invited Talk】

9:30 – 9:50        Sudesna Chakraborty (Aoyama Gakuin University),” Development of early biomarkers for abnormal aging
                          to extend healthspan”

9:50 – 10:10      Junsei TANAKA (KUAS)*, Koyu FUKE (KUAS)*, Amane ARAKI (KUAS), Yakushin KASAJIMA (KUAS),
                          Hinata IKEHARA (KUAS), ” CaCo: Robot analyzing disaster victim needs and mental care during disasters.”

10:10 – 10:30    Akira HIROSE (The University of Tokyo)*, Gunjan JOSHI (The University of Tokyo),

                          ” Advanced earth observations using explainable AI to monitor glaciers for water resource evaluation”

10:30 – 10:50     Break and Information Exchange

-- 2nd Session --  Group Discussion

10:50 – 11:00      Introduction of group discussion

11:00 – 12:10      Group discussion (2 or 3 Themes will be prepared)

12:10 – 12:30      Sharing of discussion

12:30 – 12:40      Closing

Important Information

• Deadline of registration for presenter (Abstract):  19th/April/2024　17th/May/2024, 6:00pm[JST] (Extended)

• Notification: 1st/May/2024 (Submissions after May 1 will be reviewed and notifications will be sent out as they become available.)

• Deadline of Paper Submission: 24th/May/2024 (A presentation without the paper is also welcome)

• Maximum Attendee: 40 people (Including audiences)

Registration

• Registration form for presenter

• Registration form for all participants other than presenters including the co-authors (Now Open)

(If the workshop is not filled to capacity on the day of the workshop, participation will be accepted at the venue on the day of the workshop.)

Also, please register with WCCI for the attendance of this workshop.

(One day registration (88$) is also available for this workshop)

https://2024.ieeewcci.org/registration

Committee members of IEEE Humanitarian Activities Workshop

Kojiro Nishimiya (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)

Kohei Ohno (Meiji Univ.)

Yasuhiro Takishima (Waseda Univ.)

Mayumi Suzuki (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan & Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Toshihiko Sugie (Hokkaido Univ.)

Contact

sight-tokyo[at_mark]ieee-jp.org (Please replace [at_mark] with "@".)