NEW: PRESENTATIONS (THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!)

One of the challenges of ubiquitous computing is the coordination of different devices so that their interventions with the user(s) take into account ongoing (inter)actions and avoid overloading their sensory systems. To this end, devices of different complexity levels must gain a coherent understanding of users' past and current (inter)actions, goals, preferences, social relationships, etc. in order to model users' attentional states. Attention awareness has the special target of minimizing cognitive load by addressing issues such as: interruption management / notification optimization, individual versus group interaction, just-in-time information selection. Whilst "disappearing", i.e. minimizing cognitive load, has been the chief objective of ubiquitous computing, we feel that true adaptation to human cognitive abilities requires a better understanding of the reactive, deliberative, social, and aesthetic processes controlling attention allocation and of how they can be supported by technologies. Improving such understanding is the primary objective of this workshop.

See also: attention site, workshop on communication between humans and artificial agents