AccessIOT - Workshop on Integrating AI Technologies to Increase IoT Accessibility

About the workshop

 The proliferation of IoT systems embedded in both personal and shared objects has the potential to facilitate countless everyday tasks for individuals with disabilities. However, many IoT systems are not designed with accessibility in mind, thus often exacerbating disabled people's difficulties rather than reducing them. Access needs are also extremely diverse across individuals and highly contextual, meaning that it is difficult for designers and developers to create systems that are universally accessible. The integration of novel human-centered AI architectures could successfully help to create systems that can match the available capabilities of individuals across disabilities and situations, by providing a flexible layer of distributed situational awareness, adapting the interaction modalities accordingly, as well as recognising which actions can be automated and which require direct input. Realizing the creation of AI-powered IoT systems able to adapt to users’ needs requires consideration of diverse aspects including agency negotiation, capability assessment, and interaction mediation. In this workshop, we promote exchange of cutting-edge research and discussions about practical implementations to improve theoretical knowledge and methodological approaches to leverage the power of AI to increase the accessibility of IoT systems.

Call for participation

 In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers and developers from the IoT, AI, Accessibility communities who share the common goal of leveraging AI technologies to increase accessibility of IoT systems. The topics of interests of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• AI for flexible and responsive IoT systems

• Examples of inclusive IoT systems targeting older adults, people with disabilities, and others with specific access needs

• IoT interoperability with assistive technologies

• Critical perspectives on accessibility and fairness of novel IoT, AI, and smart technologies

These topics are only representative and, we invite participants to share their unique perspectives in the workshop. Submissions for this workshop can take the form of full and short papers (both using the new ACM article template):

• Full papers: (between 5-8 pages) should report reasonably mature work within the scope of UbiCHAI and are expected to demonstrate concrete and reproducible results. Accepted full papers will be presented during the workshop in 5 min presentation + 2 min Q\&A style.

• Short papers: (4 pages) are encouraged to report novel and creative ideas that are yet to produce concrete research results but are at a stage where community feedback would be useful. Accepted short papers will be presented at the Workshop as One-slide pitches. 

Submissions will be managed on EasyChair and must be anonymised (NB: references are included in the page limit).

Papers will be selected based on relevance, quality, and diversity. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop, and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. All accepted papers will be archived on the ACM Digital library.

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