At the IE2026, the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments, we are looking forward to many outstanding contributions from various fields. To honor the best contributions, the following prizes will be awarded:

– Best full paper award
– Beatrice Worsley award (for the best full paper with a female author)
– Award for the most influential paper in the last 5 years
– Best short paper award
– Best presentation award (by a female presenter and by a male presenter)

Best Full Paper Award is accompanied by a certificate and a free 12-month online subscription to JAISE provided by our sponsor IOS Press. 
Best Short Paper Award is accompanied by a certificate and a book from AISE series. 
Each remaining award is accompanied by a certificate and a free 3-month online subscription to JAISE provided by our sponsor IOS Press.
 

Past Editions Winners

2025

IE25′ Best full paper award: “Leveraging Edge Resources for Indoor Localization for Improved Accuracy“ by Meka Naga Nandini Devi, MD Muzakkir Hussain, S.H. Laskar and Firoj Gazi

IE25′ Beatrice Worsley award: “Protecting Endangered Birds with Edge-AI: Real-Time Detection of Invasive Cats in Natural Parks“ by Floreal Acebrón, Erika Rosas, Juan Carlos Cano, Pietro Manzoni, Esther Sebastian and José María Cecilia

IE25′ Award for the most influential paper in the last 5 years: “A CNN-LSTM Deep Learning Classifier for Motor Imagery EEG Detection Using a Low-invasive and Low-Cost BCI Headband” by FM García-Moreno, M Bermúdez-Edo, MJ Rodríguez-Fórtiz and JL Garrido

IE25′ Best short paper award: “CNN-Swin Backbones in Radar Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles using Raw ADC Signals“ by Iqbal Banwait, Niclas Zeller and Javad Alirezaie

IE25′ Best presentation award (female): Zolboo Damiran

IE25′ Best presentation award (male): Gabriel Guerrero-Contreras

2024

IE24′ Best full paper award: „Efficient Real-time On-the-edge Facial Expression Recognition using Optomyography Smart Glasses“ by Bojan Sofronievski, Ivana Kiprijanovska, Simon Stankoski, Borjan Sazdov, Josif Kjosev, Charles Nduka and Hristijan Gjoreski

IE24′ Beatrice Worsley award: „Efficient Real-time On-the-edge Facial Expression Recognition using Optomyography Smart Glasses“ by Ivana Kiprijanovska

IE24′ Award for the most influential paper in the last 5 years: “Hey Siri, do you understand me?”: Virtual Assistants and Dysarthria, Intelligent Environments 2018 by Fabio Ballati, Fulvio Corno and Luigi De Russis

IE24′ Best short paper award: „Generating Human Daily Activities with LLM for Smart Home Simulator Agents“ by Haruki Yonekura, Fukuharu Tanaka, Teruhiro Mizumoto and Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Best demo or video award: „Smartglasses for Behaviour Monitoring: Recognizing Facial Expressions, Daily Activities, and Eating Habits“ by Hristijan Gjoreski, Borjan Sazdov, Simon Stankoski, Ivana Kiprijanovska, Filip Panchevski, Bojan Sofronievski, Elena Indovska, Andrew Cleal, Mohsen Fatoorechi, Claire Baert, Charles Nduka, Martin Gjoreski

IE24′ Best presentation award (female): Parisa Jamshidi

IE24′ Best presentation award (male): Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman

2023

IE23′ Beatrice WORSLEY Award to the Best Full Paper: “Week-long Multimodal Data Acquisition of Occupational Risk Factors in Public Administration Workers” by Eduarda Oliosi, Phillip Probst, João Rodrigues, Luís Silva, Daniel Zagalo, Cátia Cepeda and Hugo Gamboa

IE23′ Best short paper award: “Multi-Person Tracking Method Robust to Dynamic Viewport Changes for AR apps” by Naoya Takahashi, Tatsuya Amano and Hirozumi Yamaguchi

IE23′ Most Influential paper in the last 5 years: “Privacy Challenges for Process Mining in Human-Centered Industrial Environments” by Felix Mannhardt, Sobah Abbas Petersen and Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

IE23′ Best Presentation award for a female presenter: Ana Londral (Industrial Forum)

IE23′ Best Presentation award for a male presenter: Andrés Muñoz

2022

IE22′ Beatrice WORSLEY Award to the Best Full Paper: “A machine learning-based approach for smart agriculture via stacking-based ensemble learning and feature selection methods” by Emna Ben-Abdallah, Khouloud Boukadi and Rima Grati.

IE22′ Best short paper award:  “An Optical Soil Sensor for NPK Nutrient Detection in Smart Cities” by Wei Fan, Kevin Kam, Haokai Zhao, Patricia Culligan and Ioannis Kymissis

IE22′ Best Demos & Video award: “PowerJoular and JoularJX: Multi-Platform Software Power Monitoring Tools” by Adel Noureddine.

IE22′ Best Presentation award by a female presenter: “Driver-Side and Traffic-Based Evaluation Model for On-street Parking Solutions” by Qianyu Ou, Wenjun Zheng, Zhan Shi and Ruizhi Liao

IE22′ Best Presentation award by a male presenter: “Evaluation of time-series libraries for temperature prediction in smart greenhouses” by Santiago Ruiz, Juan Morales-García, José M Cecilia, Carlos Calafate, Juan-Carlos Cano and Pietro Manzoni.

2021

IE’21 Best Full Paper: “GRETA: Pervasive and AR interfaces for Controlling Intelligent Greenhouses” by Iraklis Bekiaris, Asterios Leonidis, Maria Korozi, Christos Stratakis Emmanouil Zidianakis, Maria Doxastaki and Constantine Stephanidis.

IE22′ Best short paper award: “Experimenting a Healthy Ageing Community in Immersive Virtual Reality Environment: The Case of World’s Longest-lived Populations” by Peyman Najafi, Masi Mohammadi, Pascale M. Le Blanc and Pieter Van Wesemael.

IE’21 Beatrice WORSLEY Award for the best female researcher: Masi Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology.

2020

IE’20 Best Full Paper: “Towards an automatic recommendation system to well-being for elderly based on augmented reality” by Luis Ronquillo, Víctor Zamudio, David Gutiérrez-Hernández, Javier Navarro, Faiyaz Doctor and Carlos Lino.

IE’20 Best Short Paper: “Estimation of User’s Orientation via Wearable UWB” by Chiara Bonsignori, Fabio Condomitti, Marco Del Gamba, Federico Garzelli, Leonardo Lossi, Francesco Mione, Alessandro Noferi and Alessio Vecchio.

2019

IE’19 Best Full Paper: “Remote Detection of Indoor Human Proximity using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons” by Michele Girolami, Fabio Mavilia, Paolo Barsocchi, Filippo Palumbo and Stefano Chessa

IE’19 Best Short Paper: “Holistic Blockchain Approach to Trust, Privacy and Security in IoT based Ambient Assisted Living” by Akpanakak Henry Mkpa, Jeannette Chinand Andrain Winckles

2018

IE’18 Best Full Paper: “Mining Local Process Models with Constraints Efficiently: Applications to the Analysis of Smart Home Data” by Niek Tax, Natalia Sidorova, Reinder Haakma and Wil M. P. van der Aalst.

IE’18 Best Short Paper: “Implementation and Evaluation of Peripheral Light Feedback for Mid-Air Gesture Interaction in the Car” by Florian Roider and Konstantin Raab.

IE’18 Best Presentation: “Implementation and Evaluation of Peripheral Light Feedback for Mid-Air Gesture Interaction in the Car” offered to Florian Roider.

IE’18 Best Doctoral Colloquium Paper: “Anomaly Detection in Elderly Daily Behavior” by Parvaneh Parvin, Fabio Paterno and Stefano Chessa.

IE’18 Best Reviewer: Miguel J. Hornos

2016

IE’16 Best Full Paper: “Evaluating future automation work in process plants with an experience-driven science fiction prototype” by T. Kymäläinen, E. Kaasinen, M. Aikala, H. Paunonen, J. Ruotsalainen, L. Hakulinen, T. Heimonen, and P. Mannonen.

IE’16 Best Short Paper: “Money Handling Training: Applications for Persons with Downs Syndrome” by S. Rus and A. Braun.

IE’16 Best Doctoral Colloquium Paper: “Activity Recognition from Video Data using Spatial and Temporal Features” by M. Al-Wattar, R. Khusainov, D. Azzi, and J. Chiverton.

IE’16 Best Demo/Video Paper: “Human Gaze and Focusof- Attention in Dual Reality Human-Robot Collaboration” by M.M. Moniri, F.A. Espinosa Valcarcel, D. Merkel,and D. Sonntag.