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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
  • Privacy, security and trust
  • Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments
  • Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
  • Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback
  • Sensor networks for pervasive care
  • Standards and interoperability
  • Probes for gathering requirements in household settings
  • Context aware mobile networks
  • Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing
  • Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments
  • Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces

Important Dates

Paper* Submission Deadline:  February 20 28, 2008 (Extended)

Notifications of Acceptance:  March 20 24, 2008

Camera Ready Papers:  April 10, 2008

Conference Dates:   July 15-19, 2008

*Full papers and short papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to special journal issues.

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