The 3rd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments is organized by the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

Announcement

• PETRA10 program (last update: June 10, 2010)
• STUDENT TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES  
  • NSF travel funding scholarships for students
  • NSF travel funding scholarships for PSPAE workshop

Workshops Affiliated With the Conference

1. ABRA: Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support For the Elderly
   (Call for Papers)  
2. EVENTANALYSIS: Multimedia Event Analysis For Assistive Environments Workshop
3. PSPAE: Privacy and Security in Pervasive e-Health and Assistive Environments Workshop
   (Call for Papers)   
4. NutriFit: assistive environments for healthier Nutrition and better Fitness
5. Aids: Assistive Devices and Software for Disabilities
6. SigProcessing: Light-weight Signal Processing for Computationally Intensive BSN Applications

Conference Theme

The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment, or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective. People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes.

Sponsors

• University of Texas at Arlington, College of Engineering
• The National Science Foundation (NSF)
• HERACLEIA Human Centered Computing Laboratory at UTA.
• University of Central Greece, Department of Informatics with Appliances in Biomedicine
• Technological Educational Institution of Athens (Department of Informatics),
• Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR),
• Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW)
• Ionian University
• University of the Aegean
• Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Ionian University, GREECE
• The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW)
• Greek Telecommunication Organization (OTE)

Related Conferences

• MEDICON 2010

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