Maria M. Hedblom

I’m happy to announce that our paper has been accepted to the demo track at ICCC’24.

Written together with Garrit Schaap, the paper is called:
“Discussing the Creativity of AutomaTone: an Interactive Music Generator based on Conway’s Game of Life”

Our paper

“Hanging Around: Cognitive Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics”

written by Mihai Pomarlan, Stefano De Giorgis, Rachel Ringe, Nikolaos Tsiogkas and Maria M. Hedblom has been accepted to FOIS, 2024 held at Twente, The Netherlands. The conference had an acceptance rate of 34%.

As part of the Vinnova funding call: “Advanced and innovative digitalization 2024 – first call for proposals” our project: “(End-to-End) AI för Kvalitetssäkring Inom Tillverkningsindustrin (AI4QAM)” has been granted 8.471.702 SEK (~724.000 euro) from funding agency Vinnova with company-sponsored funding of 8.471.800 SEK (~724.000 euro). The project will run from May 2024- April 2027.

The involved research institutes are:

• Jönköping School of Engineering, and
• RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (coordinator).

The involved companies are:

• Husqvarna AB,
• Scania CV AB,
• Thule Group AB,
• Enodo Robotics AB, and
• PVI Hydroforming AB

https://www.vinnova.se/p/end-to-end-ai-for-kvalitetssakring-inom-tillverkningsindustrin-ai4qam

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!