Monitoring what happens in the environment, what people do and how they interact with their surroundings is of interest in several areas, such as in ambient intelligence, health care applications, or mobile services. This workshop focuses on methods analyzing and interpreting the behaviour of individuals, or of small groups of people. This is for the purpose of intention recognition, triggering of smart home environment services, life routine logging, or generally for the investigation of how humans deal with specific problems in their everyday life.

While technological advances in sensing and processing have ushered in an unprecedented opportunity for realizing behaviour monitoring applications, much effort remains needed for the development of methods to integrate and exploit the available data for addressing specific applications. In addition to the general BMI topic, part of this year's workshop features a thematic focus section on Well Being. While including areas such as ambient assisted living, Well Being is more general and captures different interfaces and methods that advance modern living. Techniques and approaches in formulating and addressing application needs in Well Being will be presented and discussed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a paper on the general BMI topic or contribute a more specific paper on Well Being.

The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to

Methodologies
knowledge representation and reasoning
pattern recognition
spatial reasoning
temporal reasoning
video and image analysis and interpretation

Further topcis
dynamic scene analysis
motion analysis
sensor equipments
pervasive technologies
monitoring of diverse environments

Application areas
ambient intelligence
smart homes, ambient lighting
disaster management
health care and fitness
avatars and social networks

Members of Scientific Program Committee

•  Timothy D. Adlam, University of Bath, UK

•  Stephen Balakirsky, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

•  Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia

•  Sylvain Giroux, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada

•  Thomas Kirste, University of Rostock, Germany

•  Karin Klabunde, Philips Research, The Netherlands

•  Joyca Lacroix, Philips Research, The Netherlands

•  Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK

•  Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA

•  Howard D. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Workshop Chair	Workshop Co-Chair
Björn Gottfried	Hamid Aghajan
Centre for Computing Technologies	Department of Electrical Engineering
Universität Bremen , Germany	Stanford University , USA
bg AT tzi.de	aghajan AT stanford.edu

Proceedings
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Full papers will be published in an edited volume after a post-workshop revision. Short papers can be extended after the workshop to full papers; if accepted after a regular review process, they will also be included in the post-workshop volume.

Important Dates
Submission of papers:	July 5, 2009
Submission of short papers:	July 10, 2009
Notification of authors:	July 16, 2009
Final Versions of papers:	July 31, 2009
Workshop:	September 15, 2009

Submission Details
Papers should be formatted according to the IOS Press guidelines. The length of each paper should not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submissions should be sent in electronic form to: Bjoern Gottfried: bg AT tzi.de