The vision of ambient intelligence promotes a paradigm where our environments are technologically augmented with myriad sensors and communicating devices making them sensitive to the presence of people and responsive to serve their needs. The cornerstone of such environment is the availability of vast amount of multimedia data that are generated based on the multimodal sensors and processed to identify the needs of the residents. Multimedia data are also contributed and shared by the residents to enhance their experience in the environment. Thus, an ambient intelligence environment truly transforms into a multimedia and sensory environment, where new breeds of applications emerge and new forms of interactions become a possibility.

The proliferation of multimedia, sensors, and other pervasive devices and services for realizing ambient intelligence environment has brought many challenges that are the core focus of this workshop. More specifically, this workshop aims to report on state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and systems that help to realize ambient multimedia and sensory environment.
We seek high quality papers that were not published elsewhere and have scientific values relevant to several topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
• Modeling context and quality of context
• Multi-modal interaction in multimedia and sensory environment
• Intelligibility and control in complex ambient environment
• Self-organizing appliance ensembles
• Middleware and operating systems for AMUSE
• Novel human-centric interaction and personalization
• Ambient device/service discovery, selection and composition
• Smart environment modeling and development
• Rapid prototyping of AMUSE
• Wearable sensing and actuation for ambient healthcare applications
• Smart device communication, coordination and configuration
• Sensor data collection, processing, and visualization
• Situation awareness in ambient multimedia environment
• Entertainment and multimedia presentation in ambient environment
• Architectural support for multimedia and sensory environment
• Ambient intelligence environments for education and healthcare
• Emerging cloud computing for ambient sensory environment
• IoT for ambient multimedia and sensory environment
• Environment to environment communication
• Ambient service recommendation
• Interactive ambient multimedia system

Authors are invited to submit a full paper (two-column format, up to 6 pages, including figures and tables) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ISM2013/submission.html. Reviewing will be double blind. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Papers will be reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state-of-the-art in the field. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and presentation quality. All papers accepted will appear in the workshops proceedings which and will be included in the IEEE Explore Digital Library.

Contact: Anwar Hossain mahossain@ksu.edu.sa or Ali Nazari: alinazari@live.de

Important Dates
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Paper submission: July 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: August 23, 2013
Camera ready submission: September 13, 2013
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