PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO Feb 05, 2010

Topics

We would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference.

Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments
• Sensor networks for pervasive health care
• Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback
• Aging and Health smart devices
• Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
• Context aware mobile networks
• Healthcare privacy and data security
• User interface design for assistive environments
• Usability and HCI issues, multimodal interfaces
• Reasoning systems and machine learning for assistive environments
• Safety and home design for assistive environments
• Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments
• Integrative user interfaces and visualization for monitoring and caregiver training
• Sensor environments for rehabilitation
• Game design for cognitive assessment and social interaction studies
• Sensor data stream fusion, feature extraction and pattern analysis
• Location tracking
• Gesture and motion tracking
• Sensing of affect, emotion and cognitive state
• Behavior-driven assistance
• Intelligent biomedical devices for assistive environments
• Affect-aware interfaces
• Human-robot interaction
• Distributed robotics
• Image processing tools and applications in healthcare and aging
• User cognitive modeling
• Virtual and augmented reality environments for assistive applications
• Ambient assisted living and health monitoring
• Navigation systems for healthcare
• Data modeling, ontologies and information management for pervasive assistive environments
• Collaboration and data sharing tools
• Social, ethical, legal and e-government issues in pervasive healthcare and aging
• Wearable devices, wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
• Business cases and cost analysis of assistive environments
• Development of standards
• Home design for intelligent assistive environments
• Drug evaluation and discovery through behavioral pattern analysis
• Clinical and brain health correlation to behavior
• Global Healthcare and the Citizen
• Information Technology and Biomedicine
• Telemedicine and Information Technology
• Human Centered Computing and the Senior Citizen
• Building smart environments and tools, for virtual and real spaces

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