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The 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments is organized by the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

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Workshops Affiliated With the Conference

  1. ABRA: Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support For the Elderly.  
  2. AHETA: Assistive Healthcare & Educational Technologiest for special tArget groups.   
  3. NANOHEALTH: Nanoengineering and Nanomputing Applications for Pervasive Health Environments of the Future Workshop.   
  4. EVENTANALYSIS: Multimedia Event Analysis For Assistive Environments Workshop.   
  5. PSPAE: Privacy and Security in Pervasive e-Health and Assistive Environments Workshop.   
  6. ROBOTICS: Robotics and Automation in Assistive Living Systems.   

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.

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Topics

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

Related Conferences and Journals

Other UTA-sponsored conferences in Greece in June

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