Context awareness (CA) refers to computing systems ability can both sense and react based on their environment. The systems may have information about the circumstances under which they are able to operate and adapt their behavior accordingly based on rules or an intelligent stimulus. Such systems are a component of a smart computing environment. Currently context has been considered as part of a process in which users are involved, hence specifying and developing context models are needed to support context-aware computing. Context-aware systems are concerned with the acquisition of context, the abstraction and understanding of context, and application behavior based on the recognized context.
Emotional awareness is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions. It is a key component of emotional intelligence (EI), which combines the awareness of our emotions with the ability to use them to enhance our thinking.Emotional awareness in computing is a rapidly growing field. It involves the integration of emotional understanding into computing systems to enhance their interaction with users.
The scope of the session includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Context/Emotion-aware formal models and methods
- Context/Emotion-aware algorithms and mechanisms
- Context/Emotion-aware properties in computing systems
- Design and performance issues of Context/Emotion awareness
- Tools, testbeds and deployment issues of Context/Emotion awareness
- Real-world applications/implementations and standardization of Context/Emotion awareness
- Socially-inspired, game theoretic and other metaphor-driven interdisciplinary approaches to Context/Emotion awareness of computing systems
- Context/Emotion-aware Security and privacy in computing systems
