IV LATIN AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (LAWCN)
November 28-30, 2023
Institution University of Envigado, Envigado, Colombia.
www.lawcn.co
Contact: lawcn@iue.edu.co
Overview
The IV Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience (LAWCN 2023)
provides an international forum to bring students, academic researchers, and
professionals from diverse backgrounds to present cutting-edge research on
four major topics: Computational Neuroscience, Neuroscience,
Neuroengineering, and Artificial Intelligence. Since the first edition, LAWCN
has contributed to revealing knowledge about the brain in an enthusiastic
atmosphere for sharing ideas, creating networks, and fostering collaboration
among Latin countries and the world. The current edition is organized by the
research group “Grupo de Investigación Tecnologías Emergentes Sostenibles e
Inteligentes GITESI” from the Engineering Faculty of the Institution
University of Envigado (IUE), in collaboration with the Colegio Colombiano de
Neurociencias (COLNE), the most representative association of neuroscience
researchers and students in Colombia. The workshop will take place in the
city of Envigado (Antioquia – Colombia) from November 28 to 30, 2023. This is
the first LAWCN edition outside of Brazil, expanding its presence to Latin
America, seeking for enhancing the collaboration network among the countries
of our region but keeping the worldwide approach. Envigado is in the
Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley, close to Medellín, the second-largest
city in Colombia, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. Envigado is
known for maintaining the traditions of the Paisa Region and for its
architecture. It also has one of the highest standards of living in Colombia.
Also, Envigado was recognized recently as one of the UNESCO Global Network of
Learning Cities (UNESCO GNLC).
In keeping with the tradition of the previous edition of this meeting, the IV
LAWCN has four main topics:
A- Computational Neuroscience
B- Neuroscience
C- Neuroengineering
D- Artificial intelligence and related topics.
See the full list of topics at https://www.lawcn.co/event/submissions.html.
Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by
electronically submitting papers in English, Portuguese, or Spanish,
according to the model found on the event website. Best papers that are
related to Computer Science will be published as a book volume in
Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS;
ISSN 1865-0929) series. Also, authors can submit their papers for the Special
Issue “Interdisciplinary Approaches for Human Cognition: Expanding
Perspectives on the Mind” to be published in the International Journal in
Psychological Research (IJPR;
https://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/index ISSN 2011-7922). Papers will
be evaluated based on the quality and significance of the theoretical and
practical contributions.
The Workshop will consist mainly of the following activities.
* A presentation of up to 8 key researchers of international and national
renown.
* A round table to widely discuss gender diversity in Neuroscience.
* Oral presentations of accepted papers by their authors.
* Poster session.
Conference chairs
* Jaime A. Riascos, Institution University of Envigado(IUE), Colombia
* Lina Becerra, Colegio Colombiano Neurociencias (COLNE), University del
Valle,
University Pontificia Javeriana, Colombia
Organization
* Dante Barone Federal University Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
* Vinicius Cota Federal University São João do Rei (UFSJ), Brazil
* Marta Molinas NTNU, Norway
* Edwin Moncada Institution University of Envigado, Colombia
* Jonier Rendón Institution University of Envigado, Colombia
* Efraín Buriticá Universidad del Valle – COLNE
* Pablo Reyes Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Colne
* Hernán Villota Institution University of Envigado, Colombia
* Daniel Betancourt Institution University of Envigado, Colombia
* Catalina Alvarado Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
* Paula Herrera Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
Keynote Speakers
* Prof. PhD. Norberto García Caraisco (USP, Brazil)
* Prof. PhD. Salvador Dura-Bernal (SUNY, USA)
* Prof. PhD. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal (NSF IUCRC BRAIN Center, USA)
* Prof. PhD. Fabien Lotte (INRIA, Francia)
* Prof. PhD. Jose M. Azorin (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain)
* Profa. PhD. Marta Molinas (NTNU, Noruega)
* Profa. PhD. Catalina Alvarado (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
* Profa. PhD. Paula Herrera (Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia)
Roundtable
* Lina Becerra, Colegio Colombiano Neurociencias (COLNE), University del
Valle,
University Pontificia Javeriana, Colombia
Important dates.
Paper submission deadline: August 1st, 2023
Notification of acceptance (paper): September 30, 2023
Camera-ready (paper): October 31, 2023,
Abstract submission deadline: September 1st, 2023
Notification of acceptance (abstract): September 30, 2023
Camera-ready (abstract): October 31, 2023.
Workshop: November 28-30, 2023 (IUE, Envigado, Colombia)
More Information: www.lawcn.co
Best regards and see you in Envigado, Colombia!!!
Second Call for Book Chapters: Computational Intelligence based Hyperspectral Image Analysis, Springer (Scopus Indexed)
July 18th, 2023 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleagues
We cordially invite researchers and scientists working in hyperspectral image analysis all around the globe to participate and submit their research work to contribute to our book titled “Computational Intelligence based Hyperspectral Image Analysis”.
It would help if you could let us know the tentative title of your contribution within 10 days of receiving this mail so that we can plan / structure the table of contents of the book.
Submission link: https://forms.gle/owMZQys1yd6zXtkMA
Scope of the Book:
Fwd: IEEE AR CIS “STEAM NEXUM 5” (27/JUL) y más actividades
July 18th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise 
ACE: how Artificial Character Embodiment shapes user behaviour in multi-modal interaction @ICMI2023
July 18th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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ACE2023: how Artificial Character Embodiment shapes user behaviour in multi-modal interaction
Web page: https://sites.google.com/view/ace2023workshop/home
IMPORTANT DATES:
· Submission deadline: July 23, 2023
· Notification to authors: August 6, 2023
· Camera-ready: August 14, 2023
· Workshop: October 13, 2023, Paris
MOTIVATION:
The body shapes the mind: bodily representations structure the way humans perceive the world and the way they perceive other people. Cognitive sciences and social sciences altogether have stressed the importance of embodiment in social interaction, highlighting how interacting with others influences how we behave, perceive and think. As the sense of embodiment can be defined as the ensemble of sensations that arise in conjunction with being inside, having, and controlling a body, it definitely influences self-perceptions and actions regarding one's own avatar, but also our social behaviours with embodied intelligent agents such as virtual humans and robots.
The topic is multidisciplinary by nature: embodiment can affect both human-human and human-agent (either virtual or robotic) interactions and this influence can arise through different sensory modalities. For instance, in virtual environments, users may experience what is known as the Proteus effect, a well-known phenomenon where the appearance of users' avatars influence their behaviour, but whose underlying cognitive processes are still not clear. In human-robot and human-agent interactions, the level of anthropomorphism can impact human reactions and behaviours during the interaction (e.g., uncanny valley of visual appearance or motions that disturb responses and sense of presence in virtual reality). These phenomena are not only of interest for the design of artificial characters, either virtual or robotic, but could also help to shed light on social behaviour and cognition, providing new tools and experimental perspectives.
The ACE workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and experts on the topic of embodiment, to analyse and foster discussion on its effects on user behaviour in multi-modal interaction contexts. Objectives are to stimulate multidisciplinary discussions on the topic, to share recent progress, and to provide participants with a forum to debate current and future challenges. Contributions from computational, neuroscientific and psychological perspectives, as well as technical applications, will be welcomed.
We welcome both technical and theoretical contributions around the role of embodiment on multi-modal interaction. Their focus can be either on the user embodying an avatar or on one or several embodied artificial agents interacting with the user. We encourage researchers from different domains such as Computer Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Graphics to submit their work and attend the workshop. The type of contributions include but are not limited to:
· Review of existing work on the topic;
· Human behaviour studies in social context with virtual agents (virtual humans and robots);
· Cognitive models of sense of embodiment and telepresence, sense of agency, Proteus effect;
· Evaluation studies on the effect of embodiment on multi-modal interaction;
· Novel techniques for multi-sensory integration, including original perspectives (e.g., haptic, olfactory embodiment;
· Use cases and field applications.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We invite submissions of both long papers (8 pages max., double column) and short papers (4 pages max., double column) formatted according to ICMI guidelines (please check https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ for more details).
To submit to the workshop, please upload your manuscript to our EasyChair submission website here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ace2023
Each manuscript will be sent to at least two expert reviewers and will have one of the organisers assigned as editor. Please note that submissions are double-blind so all information giving away who the authors are must be eliminated from the submitted paper. Proceedings will be published as adjunct proceedings to the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
· Domna Banakou, from New York University Abu Dhabi will present her most recent work about immersive virtual reality and people's responses to events within these environments. Her main focus is the bodily representation in virtual reality, and the correlations between these body ownership illusions and their perceptions by the users.
ORGANISERS
· Beatrice Biancardi (CESI LINEACT), bbiancardi@cesi.fr
· Thomas Janssoone (Enchanted Tools)
· Eleonora Ceccaldi (CasaPaganini InfoMus, University of Genoa)
· Sara Falcone (University of Twente)
· Geoffrey Gorisse (LAMPA, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology)
· Pierre Raimbaud (ENISE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
· Anna Martin Coesel (CESI LINEACT)
· Silvia Ferrando (CasaPaganini InfoMus, University of Genoa)
Best regards,
AMCTM 2023: now online with extended deadlines
July 18th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear colleague
In order to facilitate a wider participation, the AMCTM 2023 has now changed to an online conference, with extended deadlines: please see the attached announcement.
Abstracts of up to two A4 pages in PDF format are invited by 18th August 2023. All presentations will be online. Abstracts should be sent to amctm2023@met.gov.ba with “ABSTRACT” in the subject line.
With best wishes
Liam
On behalf of Prof Alistair Forbes, IMEKO TC21, IMEKO TC6 and MATHMET
AMCTM2023-Online-ThirdAnnouncement.pdf