Preface to the First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Human Machine Interaction (AIxHMI)

The latest advances in wearable devices and sensing technologies have enriched the potential of human-machine interaction (HMI), enabling the development of new applications especially in real-life environments. Artificial intelligence plays a significant role within new scenarios that suffer from noise, are strongly human-centered and often require severe constraints in terms of computational costs and real-time processing. The main motivations and relevance of the Artificial Intelligence for Human Machine Interaction (AIxHMI) workshop regard (i) translating AI to pervasive technologies based on wearable sensing, (ii) focusing on a human-centric approach/perspective, and (iii) highlighting how AI can extract knowledge from heterogeneous data sources that describe human environmental interaction in real-life scenarios. Eight papers have been submitted to the first edition of AIxHMI. Out of these, five have been accepted for this volume, four as regular papers and one as a short paper. A submission has been accepted as an abstract. Diverse fields of HMI were touched by these authors as well as by the four invited speakers.