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- PSPAE: Privacy and Security in Pervasive e-Health and Assistive Environments Workshop
- ABRA: Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support For the Elderly
- EventAnalysis: Multimedia Event Analysis For Assistive Environments Workshop
- NutriFit: assistive environments for healthier Nutrition and better Fitness
- Aids: Assistive Devices and Software for Disabilities
- SigProcessing: Light-weight Signal Processing for Computationally Intensive BSN Applications
PSPAE
"Privacy and Security in Pervasive and Ambient Intelligence Environments "
Accepted Papers
*The following papers are accepted as posters
Workshop Theme and Goals
Recent advances in pervasive computing and ambient intelligence environments push forward a vision where technology is integrated into everyday objects with the intent of improving the quality of life and making human interactions with surrounding "cyberphysical" systems simpler and seamless. Such computing environments, however, bring new challenges in privacy and security: as they become aware of and store human activities for future use, there are important consequences on privacy and security that arise from great amounts of personal data being collected and shared wirelessly. An understanding of privacy and security in this context is therefore critical. Ensuring the security and privacy of users' data is a prerequisite to creating public trust for pervasive and ambient intelligence environments and is, therefore, necessary to design and implement them with specific safeguards that also protect against unauthorized collected data re-use.
This workshop will consider an array of privacy enhancing and security tools and methods necessary in pervasive computing environments where there are wireless devices with limited processing power, bandwidth, throughput, memory etc. that make it harder to implement resource-demanding tools and protocols for privacy protection. Additionally, topics on legal support for widespread use of privacy-enhancing technologies will be considered.
Topics of Interest
We are interested in original papers and case studies describing advances in all areas of security and privacy in pervasive and ambient intelligence environments, including but not limited to- Privacy, security and safety in the design of pervasive and ambient intelligence environments
- Risk analysis
- Ethical issues of Ambient Intelligence
- Ethical guidelines for the design of pervasive and ambient intelligence environments
- User and/or usability/user experience studies related to the design of pervasive and ambient intelligence environments
- Policies and practices for access, authentication, authorization and auditing for health information systems in order to protect the privacy and security of electronic health information.
- Policies for sharing / exchange of users' sensitive information in pervasive assistive environments
- Legislation issues related to handling of protected health information in pervasive e-health and assistive environments
- Secure data access in pervasive assistive environments
- PKI to support pervasive environments
- Encryption, cryptographic techniques to ensure privacy and security in pervasive environments
- Case studies in respect to privacy and security in pervasive environments
- Developing secure e-health and assistive infrastructures
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 10 , 2010
Workshop Chairs
| Grammati Pantziou pantziou@teiath.gr |
Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece |
| Petros Belsis pbelsis@aegean.gr |
Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece |
| Matt Bishop bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu |
University of California, Davis, USA |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
ABRA
"Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support for the Elderly "
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
The second workshop of this kind will continue the interesting debate of ideas and solutions for supporting elderly people in their daily environment with technologies respecting and taking into account cognitive, emotional, and behavioural aspects of the person.
The need for inclusiveness and independent self-managed life in the home environment requires novel techniques for detecting situations in which assistance or attention is needed, as well as for the assistance itself. Technologically, it requires specific interaction methods, suitable presentation of information, adequate sensing techniques and appropriately communicative and assistive devices.
This workshop wants to provide a platform for researchers and product developers alike to exchange and propose new ideas, discuss novel technologies and approaches, and not least to show latest developments and project results.
Topics of Interest
We particularly solicit contributions on the following subjects:- non-obtrusive activity monitoring
- non-obtrusive observation of persons in their home environment for affect-related signs
- detection of cognitive states
- mobile sensing of affect-related parameters
- multi-modal analysis of affective, cognitive, and behavioral data
- mobile assistance in daily activities, for health care and therapeutic support
- assistive robots in the home and health context
- affective human-technology interaction
- novel interaction methods tailored to the elderly
- studies on elderly and their attitudes to and interaction with technology
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 15, 2010
Workshop Chairs
| Christian Peter cpeter@igd-r.fraunhofer.de |
Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany and Technical University Graz, Austria |
| Kostas Karpouzis kkarpou@cs.ntua.gr |
TICCS/NTUA Athens, Greece |
| Gerald Bieber | Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
EventAnalysis
"Workflow and Event Analysis for Assistive Environments "
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
Visual supervision and workflow event analysis is critical in many multimedia applications for assistive living. Methods, tools and algorithms that aim to detect and recognize high level concepts and their respective spatiotemporal and causal relations in order to identify semantic video activities, actions and procedures have been in the focus of the research community over the last years. This research area has strong impact on many real-life applications such as surveillance environments, industrial environments and recognition/ identification of workflow processes. However, such computing environments bring new challenges in the area of multimedia, computer vision, artificial intelligence and multi-agents systems using, for example, algorithms, systems and architectures able to perform workflow recognition of objects, humans, and general actions that should be performed under a step by step way, or under unpredictable ways. These intelligent systems should be constructed in a way that could be applied in many human/object activities that fulfill real time, or almost real time conditions.
An interesting case of the aforementioned environments are Multimedia systems which are one of the most complex and popular applications that are nowadays proposed to the users. Their complexity derives mainly from the fact that multimedia systems have to process huge amounts of data, while respecting real-time deadlines.
Topics of Interest
We are interested in original papers and case studies describing advances in all areas of security and privacy in pervasive and ambient intelligence environments, including but not limited to- Event based video and multimedia analysis/processing
- Semi-supervised approaches for workflow events identification
- Efficient object/human tracking algorithms
- Models for human/object behavior recognition and event analysis
- Models for workflow description and relation with multimedia descriptors
- Personalization and relevance feedback algorithms for workflow event analysis
- Workflow recognition in the design ambient intelligence environments
- Multimedia and objects detection / classification for workflow events detection and characterization
- Domain knowledge and ontological systems for workflow modeling of human / objects behaviours for efficient detection/ recognition
- Architectures and systems implementations in the aforementioned areas
- Methods and architectures able to handle workflow dynamics in complex multimedia environments
- Case studies in respect to workflows detection in pervasive, industrial, surveillance environments
- International and European initiatives in the area of cognitive systems and artificial intelligence
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: May 10, 2010
Workshop Chairs
| Manolis Sardis sardis@telecom.ntua.gr |
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA, Athens, Greece |
| Anastasios Doulamis adoulam@cs.ntua.gr |
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece |
| Dimitris Kosmopoulos dkosmo@iit.demokritos.gr |
NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece |
| Nikolaos D. Doulamis ndoulam@cs.ntua.gr |
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA, Athens, Greece |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
NutriFit
"Assistive environments for healthier Nutrition and better Fitness "
Workshop Theme and Goals
NutriFit emphasizes assistive environments that feature healthier lifestyles and their optimal performance. In recent years, the changes in the eating and physical activity habits have dramatically contributed to obesity, overweight or many other health-related illnesses. Novel research and technological advances in embedded systems, mobile communication and computing can offer people the potential to change and/or improve these habits. The interaction between good nutrition and physical activity with our health has always existed. Effective and good nutrition and fitness habits will definitely help to improve our health, and a balance between energy intake - food and energy expenditure- and physical activity is also important. Regarding eating habits, many examples of assistive environments can be found in the literature dealing with supporting healthier meals, food safety and cooking. The main objective of these systems is to improve the quality of user nutrition, along with supporting or improving food preparation processes. On the other hand, the benefits of physical activities and sports are widely known, however they often involve more complex research issues than nutrition. Issues that range from how to achieve a successful involvement of people in a physical activity to how to guide them during a physical or rehabilitation exercise and how to improve their performance. Not only time performance but also measuring other parameters that lead to a better quality of performance of an exercise is desirable. We believe that performance measures (i.e. arm movements, arm/leg position) can also foster the motivation of people, together with good embedded exercising in, for example, game-like applications. On the other hand, we believe these assistive environments will be of interest to elderly people, people with dissabilities or who need physical rehabilitation, and to people's general use. The workshop's goal is to gather researchers from academia and industry to make this possible.
In this workshop, the participants will discuss on how to use technology to achieve assistive environments for everybody's good nutrition and fitness, including physical fitness and sports. This workshop's focus is on fundamental research in the area of designing assistive environments, sensor and context-aware networks, mobile communication technologies, novel computing systems, usability and human-computer interaction issues for healthier nutrition and better fitness, among others, and applications or solutions to targeted problems with great impact in real-world applications. We encourage submissions from academia and industry.
Topics of Interest
The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:- New technologies for supporting good eating and fitness habits
- New technologies for enhancing user performance in cooking and sports activities
- Smart appliances
- Non-obtrusive activity tracking (i.e. while eating, cooking, doing a physical exercise)
- Data mining: processing and extracting patterns of data for understanding better user needs and providing them with better solutions
- Support of planning activities
- Novel multi-modal human-computer interaction
- Novel computing methods
- Techniques for Motivating people to adopt a healthier lifestyle
- Mobile assistance
- Assistive robots
- Developing assistive and open infrastructures
- Innovative solutions and applications
- Technological novelties, evaluations and solutions
- Case studies
- User-experience studies and evaluations
- Research projects
- Trends in smart environments for nutrition and physical fitness, including sports
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: May 01, 2010
Workshop Chairs
| Rosa Iglesias RIglesias@ikerlan.es |
Ikerlan Technological Research Center, Spain |
| Jorge Parra | TIkerlan Technological Research Center, Spain |
| Jettie Hoonhout | PHILIPS RESEARCH |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
Aids
"Assistive Devices and Software for Disabilities "
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
Short papers (up to 4 PAGES) are invited to present NEW RESULTS and the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Special focus is on assistive software and devices for physical therapy and rehabilitation.
The purpose of the workshop is to :
- bring together computer scientists, engineers, clinicians, neuroscientists and physical therapists to develop fundamentally new technologies that transform healthcare practices for persons with disabilities
- disseminate innovative research
- introduce groundbreaking interactive interfaces technology applied physical/occupational rehabilitation
- advance concepts of specific virtual reality interventions for persons with disabilities
- demonstrate collaborative efforts between researchers/scientists in computer science, biomedical technology and rehabilitation.
Topics of Interest
Short papers (up to 4 PAGES) are invited to present NEW RESULTS and the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Special focus is on assistive software and devices for physical therapy and rehabilitation. The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:- rehabilitation and (remote) physical therapy
- support of human functional ability or cognition
- enabling communication of persons with disabilities and their environment
- neuroscience, neuroengineering and rehabilitation robotics. interactive interfaces for diagnosis of neurological conditions
- Game systems for occupational therapy
- Diagnostic software for the design of prosthetics
- Motor performance analysis tools for Cerebral Palsy
- Functional Near Infrared (fNIR) Software for neurological diagnosis
- User interfaces for Alzheimer's
- Sensor based behavioral monitoring of neurological conditions
- Brain Imaging Stimulation Software
- Prosthetics for motor disabilities
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 15, 2010
Workshop Committee
| Fillia Makedon (Chair) makedon@uta.edu |
The University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| George Alexandrakis | The University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Dragos-Stefan Dancila | The University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Olga Dreeben | University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA |
| Heng Huang | The University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Charles B. Owen | Michigan State University, USA |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
SigProcessing
"Light-weight Signal Processing for Computationally Intensive BSN Applications "
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
The area of Body Sensor Networks (BSN) has been receiving considerable attention from researchers over the past few years. Scientists have been focusing on several research aspects of such systems. One important direction has been signal processing and extraction of useful information from an overwhelmingly large amount of data. Signal processing can be performed either on-board, or off-line/ off-node, where the sensor readings are shipped to a powerful computer. Complete off-line signal processing, although in some applications maybe feasible and advantageous, in general is impractical for BSNs. The problem can be stated in two words: battery and wireless. It is expensive. On-board signal processing tends to be the answer. However, unlike conventional wisdom where energy was free and transistors were expensive, new wisdom reads out that transistors are free, but can we afford turning them on?
The resource constrained nature of the system is derived from the form factor. The small form factor dictates a small battery and very limited energy. It also results in absence of sophisticated processors or large storage capabilities. Therefore, a new class of signal processing, which we call light-weight, need to be investigated. In particular, they will be algorithms that address distributed nature of sensing, and are guaranteed to function with constant memory or models of computation with limited processing power. These classes of signal processing will be additionally effective for implantable devices with small batteries and new sources of energy. This will include energy harvesting that can supply very limited current.
Topics of Interest
We are interested in topics related to light-weight signal processing for body sensor networks, including but not limited to:- techniques to reduce the complexity of computation
- Low power electronic architecture for on-board signal processing
- Hardware support for BSN systems
- Memory efficient signal processing algorithms
- Compressed sensing
- Validation of techniques to assure the correctness of the signal processing
- Application case studies
- System support for clinical trial and/or commercialization
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 15, 2010
Workshop Chairs
| Roozbeh Jafari rjafari@utdallas.edu |
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Majid Sarrafzadeh majid@cs.ucla.edu |
University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.