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

The human-machine interaction (HMI) field is benefiting from the latest advances in wearable devices, sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) models. This is allowing the development of new applications in real-life, virtual and augmented environments, where AI is assuming a significant role especially considering strongly human-centered, real-time, and noisy scenarios. The main motivations and relevance of the Artificial Intelligence for Human-Machine Interaction (AIxHMI) workshop regard (i) focusing on human-centered approaches and perspectives, (ii) exploiting AI approaches to provide a better interaction between humans and machines, (iii) moving AI to pervasive technologies relying on wearable devices and portable technologies, and (iv) presenting novel AI methods and proposals that exploit heterogeneous data sources, describing the human environmental interaction in real, virtual, and augmented scenarios. Seven papers have been submitted to the second edition of AIxHMI. Out of these, six have been accepted for this volume as regular papers. Diverse fields of HMI were touched by these authors as well as by the three invited speakers.