3rd Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation: Studying Moving Objects in a Three-Dimensional World

In the last decade, many technologies have been devised to obtain information about the motion behaviour of people, among others by GPS, GSM, RFID, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and video-technologies. Based upon such technologies, this workshop aims to focus on the high-level representation and interpretation of the monitored behaviours in3D. This concerns primarily the spatial and spatiotemporal aspects of such behaviours, including:

• the monitoring of moving objects, in particular movement in outdoor and indoor spaces
• methods for analysing and interpreting locomotion behaviours 
• the consideration of locomotion behaviours of either single objects or of groups of objects
• the modelling of spatial and spatiotemporal aspects of locomotion behaviours
• the relationship between psychological and formal conceptualisations of moving objects
• the dealing of moving objects with natural language/linguistics
• the comparison of work about moving objects from researchers from different disciplines
• applications and related areas that require the consideration of moving objects

To make the vision of spatiotemporal behaviour monitoring and interpretation a reality, there are many serious challenges that must be addressed including lack of complete information about the monitored behaviours and the imprecision of the obtained data. Furthermore, knowledge representation issues, such as ontologies about behaviour patterns of movements have to be considered in the context of intention recognition; furthermore, questions have to be answered concerning how to reason about behaviour patterns, e.g. for making predictions, for short:

• vague and incomplete spatiotemporal measurements of movements
• the dealing with granularity issues
• ontological aspects for representing movement information