<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div>I agree with Mitja. Important conferences are included every year in the budgets of research groups, a workshop such as the one suggested by Mitja can be a good solution also for attract more competitors. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 October 2013 16:39, Mitja Lustrek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mitja.lustrek@ijs.si" target="_blank">mitja.lustrek@ijs.si</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> The second track, to be held in Madrid, will be oriented towards reasoning<br>
> and context detection. We have thought about two possibilities<br>
> here:<br>
> - allow people to come with systems about localization and/or activity<br>
> recognition and measure the accuracy in detecting situations like<br>
"cooking",<br>
> "sleeping", "doing sport", "watching television" etc. Those situations are<br>
> detectable by knowing the location and/or by knowing the kind of<br>
> movements.<br>
><br>
> - Make an offline competition about pure reasoning, where competitors are<br>
> given a data set of a 12h measurement session in the Living Lab with the<br>
> messages generated by the appliances of the lab (switches, electronic<br>
> equipment, doors etc.).<br>
<br>
</div>There is also a third option, which I find attractive:<br>
We could hold a live competition in conjunction with an appropriate<br>
conference, such as Ubicomp, AmI, IE ... This solves the problem of travel,<br>
since the people likely to compete would also be likely to attend the<br>
conference anyway. If we allowed only equipment with a relatively short<br>
set-up time (say, an hour) and if the sequence of activities to be<br>
recognized were not long, we could squeeze half a dozen competitors in a<br>
day. They could not use ambient sensors, but wearable sensors, cameras (of<br>
the regular and Kinect varietay), robots etc. are all still possible. The<br>
main reason this idea is cool is that it is interesting for spectators (thay<br>
can watch activities being recognized as the competition is in progress, we<br>
could have a live electronic scoreboard etc.).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> We have to know where exactly the papers of the competitors will be<br>
> published.<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> For the place of the workshop, the most recent idea was to have it in<br>
> Madrid, just after the competition took place. In the case of the<br>
> Evarilos track, they were proposing a "virtual conference" (with people<br>
> connected on-line) so to avoid people from travelling. This could also<br>
> apply if we make the Madrid's track also off-line, but then the workshop<br>
> will be completely on-line and probably less interesting.<br>
<br>
</div>Again, I suggest a workshop at some conference interesting for the<br>
competitors anyway. This may also solve the issue of the proceedings -<br>
depending on how the conference is organized.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Mitja<br>
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