Maria M. Hedblom

I am happy to announce that I have been invited to speak at the EASE KR symposium focused on Interaction-engaging Robots. The symposium will be held the 26-27th of March at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen.

I am very honoured to speak among the top scholars in the field: Michael Beetz, Tamim Asfour, Alessandra Sciutti, Stefano Borgo and Stefan Kopp. A truly humbling assembly!

More information here:
https://ease-crc.org/ease-kr-symposium-on-interaction-engaging-robots-2024/

It is official! The 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) organised by the Association for Computational Creativity (ACC) will be coming to Jönköping, Sweden, next year!

Asked to organise the conference, I will take the role of Local chair working together with ACC’s Kazjon Grace, University of Sydney, in his role as general chair.

Stay tuned for more information!

This year I have the privilege to be part of many conference and workshop organisation teams.

Not only will Cognition And OntologieS (CAOSVII) run its 7th edition at FOIS 2023 in Sherbrooke, Canada later this year, but we were recently informed that the 7th edition of the Image Schema Day (ISD7) was accepted as one of the workshops at KR 2023 taking place on Rhodos, Greece.

Stay tuned for more information!

New to my organisation experience, is joining the team organising the Thematic Track “AI, Generation and Creativity” at EPIA, the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, taking place in the exotic location of Faial island, Portugal.

For each event, the call for papers is out (or will be shortly)!
Check them out and consider joining us in pushing the scientific boundary!

This year, the Swedish AI Association is organising its 35th annual workshop in Karlskrona on June 12-13. Consider submitting a paper/an abstracrt and joining us as we discuss the future of AI research in Sweden.

More info on:
http://www.bth.se/sais23

Our paper “Curiously exploring affordance spaces of a pouring task”, authored together with Mihai Pomarlan and Robert Porzel is now available as open access.
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13213“

The 8th Joint Ontology Workshops started Monday the 15th of August and will be running until Friday the 19th.

The conference has over 50 people registered for local participation and more than 70 people joining virtually, making the event an exciting kettle of knowledge, ideas and opinions! So far high-quality paper presentations are altered with fruitful discussions and network opportunities.

Today’s highlight was the wonderful keynote by Janna Hastings and the comparative debate The Foustian Struggle that positioned the different foundational ontologies against one another.

I am happy to say that the organisation is going relatively smoothly and it appears that the participants are enjoying themselves, very much thanks to the other members of the JOWO’22 team, the workshop and tutorial chairs, and the positive attitude of the participants! Thank you all!

If you are interested in listening in, don’t hesitate to sign up as an online participant!
https://www.trippus.net/JOWO2022_registration

One week of innovative research exchange defined the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’22) held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in the past week.

As one of the program chairs, I was impressed by the level of quality the submitted papers displayed. Through a highly selective peer-review period, 57 papers were accepted to be presented at the conference together with system demos and outstanding keynote talks by Aaron Hertzmann, Allison Parrish, Ellen Pearlman and Oliveiro Stock.

As usual, ICCC was a pleasure to attend with a fun, friendly and inviting atmosphere. I am very much looking forward to the opportunity to join the conference also next year!

But until then, stay tuned for the ICCC’22 proceedings which we are working on at this very moment!

As local chair of this year’s edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops, I am happy to announce that JOWO’22 will take place 15-19th of August at Jönköping University!

The conference has accepted eight innovative workshops and three tutorials.
Mark the event in your schedule and submit your research to one of the participating workshops!

Join us!

https://ju.se/en/collaboration/events-and-conferences/conferences/jowo-2022.html

We are very excited to announce that The Sixth Image Schema Day (ISD6) has accepted several abstracts and papers to the workshop for presentation!
The event will take place at Mariedal, Jönköping University’s event mansion on the 24-25th of March!

Currently, we are designing the program based on the contributions and we are encouraging authors of accepted papers as well as any one interested in joining the event to register on the event website!

For info and registration form here!

A paper written together with colleagues at the University of Bremen has been accepted for publication in the Semantic Web Journal.

The paper is called:
“Deep Understanding of Everyday Activity Commands for Household Robots”
And is written by:
Sebastian Höffner, Robert Porzel, Maria M. Hedblom, Mihai Pomarlan, Vanja Sophie Cangalovic, Johannes Pfau, John Bateman and Rainer Malaka