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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Pedro,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>the accommodation with AAL Forum is not what we hoped for. For several reasons, one of which is the success of AAL Forum that this year received a large number of proposals for side events, they confirmed the EvAAL event only for half a day and only in late July.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This was an additional problem to the organization of EvAAL this year, because, differently than the previous years, we didn’t succeed in finding financial support to (at least) reduce the registration to the AAL Forum. This was also due to a personal problem to one of the organizers that managed to find funds last years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Two years ago obtained a discount by registering the competitors with the same rate of the students (at the time we covered all the registrations with our funds), but the result was that they were not allowed to the dinner of the awarding, and only with a complicate, last minute negotiation we managed to solve the problem. Last and this year, to avoid these problems, we disregarded the option.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Now I asked people in the EvAAL organization close to AAL Forum to negotiate better conditions, but I really cannot guarantee anything as this thing is out of my control.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anyway, I admit that the matter of AAL Forum has always been source of debate in EvAAL, and for the future I would like to have a workshop independent from AAL Forum, possibly in the same site and dates of the competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>On the other hand, note that the posters that we expect the competitors to present at the workshop are already being published in an issue of CCIS (that should arrive soon), and we are negotiating with the JAISE journal for a thematic issue about EvAAL 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I hope this clarifies the whole picture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Stefano<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Da:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'> Pedro Jose Marron [mailto:pjmarron@uni-due.de] <br><b>Inviato:</b> mercoledì 4 settembre 2013 15:57<br><b>A:</b> Stefano Chessa<br><b>Cc:</b> contest@evaal.aaloa.org; Juan Carlos Augusto; Marcus Handte; Ngewi Fet<br><b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [evaal contest] workshop organization @ AAL Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Stefano,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am very surprised by your e-mail and the way the EvAAL competition is being included in the event in Sweden.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>First, there was no information about having to pay a full registration fee (this was not the case last year), without the possibility to get the early-bird registration rate or any kind of student rate. Now, the presentation of the system is being "downgraded" to a poster session instead of a full-day workshop with scientific presentations.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In the interest of keeping the level of participation in further competitions, I would like to ask you to reconsider the possibility to (at least) be able to get the early-bird registration fee and to organize the workshop in such a way that, if there are posters, they are allowed to be in a visible place throughout the conference (not just on Tuesday) and use the time slot on Tuesday for presentations of the systems.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looking forward to your feedback on these two requests.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pedro<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Stefano Chessa <<a href="mailto:chessa@isti.cnr.it" target="_blank">chessa@isti.cnr.it</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Competitors,<br><br>As anticipated by Francesco Potortì, the workshop will be on Tuesday 24th, at 13:30-17:00.<br>As the time is too short to have long presentations for each paper, we decided to organize the workshop as a poster session. The idea is to leave a strict slot of 3 minutes to each participant to advertise his/her work, and leave deeper discussions among participants during the poster session. To reduce the burden of preparation and transport of the posters, we suggest to prepare the posters in A2 format (this is not mandatory anyway).<br><br>The program of the workshop will be:<br>- opening (10 minutes),<br>- short oral introduction to posters (strictly 3 minutes each person, up to 40 minutes in total)<br>- Poster session (1,5 hour)<br>- summary of results (20 minutes)<br>- open discussion (40 minutes)<br>- closing (10 minutes)<br><br><br>Finally, I kindly ask each team to send me an email with the following information about the person that will present the work at the workshop:<br><br>- team name<br>- participant name<br>- cellular phone number (in order to solve any last minute issue in Norrköping).<br><br><br>Thank you,<br> Stefano Chessa<br><br>-----Messaggio originale-----<br>Da: Contest [mailto:<a href="mailto:contest-bounces@evaal.aaloa.org">contest-bounces@evaal.aaloa.org</a>] Per conto di Francesco Potortì<br>Inviato: lunedì 2 settembre 2013 18:48<br>A: <a href="mailto:contest@evaal.aaloa.org">contest@evaal.aaloa.org</a><br>Oggetto: [evaal contest] preparing for the AAL Forum<br><br>Dear EvAAL followers,<br><br>for the third year EvAAL is collaborating with the AAL Forum: the EvAAL workshop and the EvAAL award ceremony will take place in Norrköping, Sweden, and you have only three weeks left to register to the AAL Forum and prepare your trip!<br><br>We will have our workshop on Tuesday, 24 at 13:30, while the awards ceremony will be part of the final dinner on Thursday, 26. Have a look at the AAL Forum web site at <a href="http://www.aalforum.eu/programme" target="_blank">http://www.aalforum.eu/programme</a> for details on the interesting program of the main yearly event on AAL in Europe.<br><br>During the workshop the competitors of EvAAL 2013 are going to present the systems they used to compete. The first three ranked in each track will receive a plate during the awarding ceremony, and we have very nice prizes provided by our sponsors. Here is the complete list:<br><br>2 Metawatch Bluetooth Watch development system <a href="http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-wds430bt2000d" target="_blank">http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-wds430bt2000d</a><br>4 Chronos Watches eZ430 <a href="http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-chronos" target="_blank">http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-chronos</a><br>6 USB Flash Drives <a href="http://ap.apacer.com/products/AH135" target="_blank">http://ap.apacer.com/products/AH135</a><br>1 Xtion Pro Live <a href="http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO_LIVE/" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO_LIVE/</a><br>3 Xtion Pro <a href="http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO/" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO/</a><br><br>Come and see who will get the prizes!<br><br>--<br>Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: <a href="tel:%2B39.050.621.3058">+39.050.621.3058</a><br>ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: <a href="tel:%2B39.348.8283.107">+39.348.8283.107</a><br>via G. 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