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ABRA
"Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support for the Elderly"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
This workshop is dedicated to affective and assistive technologies to support elderly and other people in need for assistance in their daily activities and social needs.
Comprehensive assistance is more than timely reminders and understandable task lists. Appropriate assistance particularly for elder people needs to take into account affective and emotional as well as social aspects. The need for inclusiveness and independent self-managed life in the home environment requires novel techniques for both, detection of situations in which assistance is needed, and 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 encourage submissions from both academic and industry sector. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:- non-obtrusive activity monitoring
- non-obtrusive technologies for fall-detection
- non-obtrusive observation of persons in their home environment for affect-related signs
- mobile sensing of affect-related parameters
- multi-modal analysis of affective and behavioural 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 13, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: March 31, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| Christian Peter cpeter@igd-r.fraunhofer.de |
Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany |
| Kostas Karpouzis kkarpou@cs.ntua.gr |
ICCS/NTUA Athens, Greece |
| Gerald Bieber |
Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
AHETA
"Assistive Healthcare & Educational Technologies for special tArget groups"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
Substantial advances made over the last few years push the application of new technologies in meeting the special needs of certain population groups like the elderly people, chronic patients and the physically or mentally disabled. In parallel to e-Health solutions and activities, the fields of Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) and Educational Technology (ET) or Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) have been developed in an effort to alleviate some of the every day life difficulties and to improve their life quality. Taking into consideration the increasing numbers of the aforementioned target populations in Europe and worldwide and their associated social and financial consequences, various national and international research efforts have focused on such assistive healthcare and educational technologies in an attempt to make an edge on this quickly arising and expanding market.
In an effort to stimulate innovation and competitiveness but also challenge the accelerated development of the envisaged sustainable, competitive, and inclusive information society, this workshop aims to merge different scientific fields and application domains under a common discussion umbrella, where domain experts and researchers, product developers, filed practitioners, as well as, research students will be able to exchange and propose novel ideas, technologies, methodologies, pilot frameworks, and share success stories.
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions from both academic and industry sector. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:- ICT for health, ageing and inclusion
- systems for the wider uptake and best use of inclusive ICT
- exploitation of digital content by citizens with special needs
- affective technologies for the elderly and the disabled
- daily activity monitoring and eHomes
- the application of smart devices in aging and health
- wireless, unobtrusive home-based health and wellness monitoring and measuring technologies
- healthcare privacy concerns
- biomedical devices for assisted living environments
- social, ethical, and legal implications of such monitoring
- behavioural studies and attitudes upon interaction with technology
- educational technologies for persons with autism spectrum disorders
- assistive technologies for Alzheimer's patients
- innovative home care and telemedicine solutions (emphasis on artificial kidney, artificial liver, implanted hearing aids)
- management of chronic pain in the elderly
- management of chronic diseases at the point of need
- management of communication disorders
- inclusive ICT standards development
- open architecture and web services solutions
- innovative knowledge sharing solutions and frameworks
- Living Labs for assistive technologies to support special target groups
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March
13, 2009 March 6, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 03, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| Panos Bamidis bamidis@med.auth.gr |
Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Eleni Kaldoudi kaldoudi@med.duth.gr |
Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece |
Submission Information
Interested authors should submit their contribution here.
EventAnalysis
"Multimedia Event Analysis for Assistive Environments"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
Visual supervision and 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 assistive services, monitoring of patients, context aware and personalized event analysis.
Pervasive computing is very useful in computer vision applications from two main perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for video data management. Second, it seeks to make the event-related applications available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but not limited to:- Event-based video analysis for different health application scenarios
- On-line learning strategies that allow for robust detection and recognition of workflows of events in non-stationary assistive environments
- Semi-supervised approaches under computational efficient frameworks
- Event driven video organization
- Pervasive metadata description schemes
- Contextual video metadata features
- Pervasive metadata modeling and analysis
- Event driven video delivery and transmission for assistive environments
- Semantic and event-based summarization of monitored video data
- Multimedia networking for events delivery
- Event driven video retrieval and indexing under a pervasive framework
- Scalable multimedia delivery for pervasive computing
- Security issues for pervasive architectures
- Interactive multimedia systems and applications
- Systems for multimedia content production and retrieval;
- Research projects in the respective fields and international standardization activities
- Applications for assistive environments
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: Feburary
25, 2009 March 13, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 3, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| A. Doulamis adoulam@cs.ntua.gr |
Tech Univ of Crete, Greece |
| D. Kosmopoulos dkosmo@iit.demokritos.gr |
NCSR Demokritos, Greece |
| N. Doulamis ndoulam@cs.ntua.gr |
Nat Tech Univ of Athens, Greece |
NanoHealth
"Nanoengineering and Nanomputing Applications for Pervasive Health Environments of the Future"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
This workshop focuses on nano-computing and nano-engineering applications and services in health and assistive environments that are based on information and communication technologies and use ambient intelligence to promote innovation and ubiquitous access to information and communication for life-long learning, higher quality of life for the elderly, and for citizens with special needs. Research in nanoscale science and engineering is about to revolutionize many fields and lead to a new technological infrastructure that will have major impact on health care, as well as areas such as biotechnology, environment, energy, transportation, and others.
Topics of Interest
We solicit contributions to the following topics:- Nano and biotechnologies and distributed computing
- Nanohealth and Safety
- Nanomachines for drug delivery and clinical applications
- Nano-biosensor design, manufacturing and health applications
- Nanobioelectronics and biomaterials
- Grid computing
- Patient biomedical and clinical diagnostics
- Assistive environments and remote security monitoring
- Evaluation methodologies for health applications
- Microfabrication issues
- Nanoscale architectures for human centered applications
- Nanomachine drug delivery tracking
- Minimal power grid computing and power scavenging nanosystems
- Neural net based real-time information nanosystems
- Intelligent nanocomputing
- Nano-medicine
- Low cost and rapid biometric devices
- Computational Genomics and Proteomics
- Interfaces, architectures and intelligence of point-of-care & personalized diagnostics
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 13, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 3, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| Agis Iliadis agis@eng.umd.edu |
University of Maryland, USA |
| Samir M. Iqbal smiqbal@uta.edu |
University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
PSPAE
"Privacy and Security in Pervasive e-Health and Assistive Environments"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
PSPAE is the first workshop of its kind focusing on privacy and security in e-health and assistive environments, and it is expected to deepen the understanding of the security risks involved in pervasive cyber-physical environments where a human's interactions with the environment, objects @home or @work, with objects, robots and sensors are monitored, recorded and shared among remotely. In runs in parallel and within the context of the main PETRA conference. Participants of the workshop are also participants of the main conference.
This is a very timely workshop that responds to emerging sensor and other technologies capturing almost everything we do, from walking in and out of a space, to bumping onto furniture, falling down, etc. It has huge implications in how we deal with the healthcare of the 21st century where physical prevention and privacy as as important as treatment. Workshop topics and findings apply to numerous other areas of research where there are human-related data and where privacy and security are essential. Application areas include, databases, user modeling, digital libraries, sensor network security, space design, manufacturing, risk detection, grid computing, parallel computation and and others.
This workshop addresses tprivacy concerns and security problems in pervasive healthcare computing and brings together experts from fields of computer science and healthcare.
Pervasive e-health and assistive environments involve new types of interaction among health/assistance providers and patients/elderly people, and introduce new ethical issues and threats for privacy. Such environments unobtrusively and transparently support their users while their implementations rely on an increased amount and accuracy of data generated and collected as well as on increased capabilities to process and analyze these data. The users frequently ignore the amount of their personal data being collected and processed or shared wirelessly and how much their privacy may be invaded.
Ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive information is a critical prerequisite to creating public trust for pervasive e-health and assistive environments which aim to improve patient and elderly care in a reliable and cost effective way. It is therefore, necessary for pervasive e-health and assistive environments to be implemented and used in compliance with data subjects' fundamental rights; moreover, the adoption of specific safeguards is required. In addition, since misuse of collected data is easily enabled, preventive measures are needed.
Privacy-Enhancing Technology (PET) concepts have been developed and applied while guidelines are found in the literature on how to deal with data so that the application of pervasive technology to become privacy-friendly. However, using privacy enabling and enhancing tools is not always easy. Pervasive computing environments are based on the use of wireless devices that have limited processing power, bandwidth, throughput, memory etc. These factors put a resource limitation on implementing resource demanding tools and protocols for privacy protection. Additionally, legal support for widespread use of PETs is missing and the introduction of additional legislation should be examined.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:- Privacy and security in CyberPhysical Systems (CPS)
- Human-centric CPS for assistive 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 patient's sensitive information among health / assistance providers for example, during an emergency.
- Legislation issues related to handling of protected health information in pervasive e-health environments.
- Secure data access in e-health environments
- Trust and privacy issues in e-health and assistive environments
- Sensor network security for e-health environments
- RFID, sensor networks and biometrics to enable security in e-health and assistive environments
- PKI to support e-health environments
- Encryption, cryptographic techniques to ensure privacy and security in e-health
- Case studies in respect to privacy and security in e-health environments
- Developing secure e-health and assistive infrastructures
- Interoperability of pervasive e-health and assistive environments with the information systems of health organizations (e.g. hospitals).
- Processing and exploitation of data from e-health and assistive environments for understanding better the needs of patients and designing better government and e-government services for them, but protecting privacy.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March. 13, 2009 March
1, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: March 31, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| Grammati Pantziou pantziou@teiath.gr |
Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece |
| Petros Belsis pbelsis@aegean.gr |
Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece |
ROBOTICS
"Robotics and Automation in Assistive Living Systems"
Accepted Papers
Workshop Theme and Goals
The quality of life of an elderly person can be improved by allowing them to continue living as independently as possible in their own home or apartment. However, some people require assistance in order to maintain some level of autonomy. Assistive living systems are being developed for this purpose and they may consist of a monitoring system, composed of sensors embedded in the environment and computers with programmed logic for identifying events, and a response system, which can include robots to affect or alter the environment. A synergy can be realized as the system, staff, and patient work together to improve the patient's quality of life. This can be achieved to a greater extent if robots are included in the assistive living system. The system's operations involve the use of robot(s) and automation to alter or collect information from the environment when the humans are unable to help themselves or unaware that they need assistance, as in emergencies. However, even mundane situations are considered where robotics and automation can be used to simply make the human more comfortable in their environment. These scenarios can be addressed quickly by robot(s) and/or automation stationed within the home, as opposed to having the system call someone for help.
Topics of Interest
The key aspect of this workshop is that the robot(s) and/or automation physically interact with the environment in order to alter it or collect information from it; the robots/automation act as the assistive living system's effectors for manipulating the environment. Within this context, submissions are invited which address any aspect of robotics in assistive environments including:- Wearable robots
- Portable and light weight robots
- Human-Robot interaction
- Telepresence
- Service robots
- Robots as sensors
- Way-finding robots
- Mobile robotic guides and RFID
- Robot Assistant for the Visually Impaired
- Agile Pet Robots
- Robot-Assisted Emergency Response
- Home automation
- Helper robots
- Robot companions
- Socially Assistive Robots
- Socially Intelligent Robots
- Physically and psychologically supportive robots
- Expressive robots
- Mobile manipulation
- Robot-Assisted Surveillance
- Robot feeding aids
- User-centered Robot Design
- Robot-assisted nurse training
- Human-aware robots
- Climbing and walking robots in assistive environments
- Robot team interaction related to assistive environments
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 13, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: April 06, 2009
Workshop Chairs
| Alan Bowling bowling@uta.edu |
University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Panayiotis Shiakolas shiakolas@uta.edu |
University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Manfred Huber huber@cse.uta.edu |
University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
Program Committee
| Monica Anderson | The University of Alabama, USA |
| Brian Huff | The University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| Steve LaValle | The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Constantinos Mavroidis | Northeastern University, USA |
| Ning Xi | Michigan State University, USA |