<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, </div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Please find the CFP for ABC2026 in Hokkaido, Japan.</div><div>The title deadline is Sept. 29th.</div><div><br></div><div>Note: the ABC2025's proceedings and the journals are here:</div><div><br></div><div>IEEE:</div><div><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/11118322/proceeding" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/11118322/proceeding</a></div><div><br></div><div>IJABC: </div><div><a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ijabc/2025/0/_contents/-char/en" target="_blank">https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ijabc/2025/0/_contents/-char/en</a></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>-----<br></div><div>Prof. Sozo Inoue, Director, Care XDX Center, Kyutech, JAPAN</div><div><br></div><div><br>---------- CALL FOR PAPERS -----------<br><br>The 8th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing<br>(IEEE Technically Co-sponsored)<br>(In conjunction with Persuasive Technology 2026)<br><br>Mar. 9 - 12 , 2026, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan (Hybrid)<br><a href="https://abc-research.github.io/">https://abc-research.github.io/</a><br><br><br>(Please send an empty email to <a href="mailto:abc2026@autocare.ai">abc2026@autocare.ai</a> to get updates!)<br><br>Human Activity Recognition has been researched in thousands of papers so far, with mobile / environmental sensors in ubiquitous / pervasive domains, and with cameras in vision domains. As well, Human Behavior Analysis is also explored for long-term health care, rehabilitation, emotion recognition, human interaction, and so on. However, many research challenges remain for realistic settings, such as complex and ambiguous activities / behavior, optimal sensor combinations, (deep) machine learning, data collection, platform systems, and killer applications.<br><br>In this conference, we comprehend such research domains as ABC: Activity and Behavior Computing, and provide an open and a confluent place for discussing various aspects and the future of the ABC.<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>We welcome 3 categories of papers: regular papers, position papers, and challenge papers. The submitted papers are peer reviewed by expert researchers, and accepted based on the research quality.<br><br>Accepted and presented papers will be published as IEEE Proceedings or a J-Stage open access journal.<br><br>SCOPE<br>\u2022 Mobile sensor-based ABC<br>\u2022 Environmental sensor-based ABC<br>\u2022 Vision-based ABC<br>\u2022 Multimodal ABC<br>\u2022 Physical / semantic analysis of ABC<br>\u2022 Gait analysis<br>\u2022 Sleep analysis<br>\u2022 Emotion recognition / analysis<br>\u2022 ABC with deep learning<br>\u2022 ABC data mining<br>\u2022 Data collection<br>\u2022 ABC systems<br>\u2022 Interactive ABC<br>\u2022 Healthcare applications<br>\u2022 Nursing applications<br>\u2022 Elderly care applications<br>\u2022 Sports applications<br>\u2022 Business applications<br>\u2022 Tools for industry<br>\u2022 ABC in the wild<br><br>CATEGORIES<br>- Regular papers : full technical content papers, published in<br> + IEEE proceedings (4-10 pages) or<br> + J-Stage open access journal (6-15 pages).<br>- Position papers (2-4 pages): describe the challenges and future directions of ABC based on problems that arise when systems are deployed in real settings (Not to be published).<br>- Challenge papers: we will provide a dataset and accept results for a recognition challenge with papers describing the methods and the results.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>- Title/abst Sep 29, 2025 <br>- Paper Oct 27, 2025<br>- Decision Dec 1, 2025<br>- Resubmission Dec 29, 2025<br>- Camera ready Jan 26, 2026<br>- Conference Mar 9-12, 2026<br><br>COMMITTEE<br><br>GENERAL CHAIRS<br>- Kaoru Sumi, Future Hakodate Univ., Japan<br>- Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan<br>- Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of East London, UK<br><br>PROGRAM CHAIRS<br>- Paul Lukowicz, RPTU / DFKI, Germany<br>- Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Japan<br>- Tahera Hossain, Nagoya University, Japan<br><br>HISTORY<br>ABC2019 Spokane (USA)<br>ABC2020 Kitakyushu (Japan)<br>ABC2021 Bangkok (Online)<br>ABC2022 London (UK)<br>ABC2023 Kaiserslautern (Germany)<br>ABC2024 Nakatsu & Kitakyushu (Japan)<br>ABC2025 Abu Dhabi (UAE)<br>----------------------------------</div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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