Associated Workshops

1. ABRA: Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support For the Elderly  
2. EVENTANALYSIS: Multimedia Event Analysis For Assistive Environments Workshop  
3. PSPAE: Privacy and Security in Pervasive e-Health and Assistive Environments Workshop
4. NutriFit: assistive environments for healthier Nutrition and better Fitness   
5. Aids: Assistive Devices and Software for Disabilities
6. SigProcessing: Light-weight Signal Processing for Computationally Intensive BSN Applications
   (Deadline: March 01)

Call for Workshops

The PETRA 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the workshops that will complement the main conference. The workshops should fall within the scope of PETRA.

Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize workshops should submit proposals in pdf-format. Proposals should include a workshop name and acronym, a technical description of the workshop topic area, a short description of the intended length and format of the workshop, a brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to PETRA 2010, the names and e-mail addresses of the organizing committee, a list of proposed program committee members, and tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance.

The proposals will be evaluated by the PETRA workshop committee. The titles and brief information about accepted workshops will be included in the PETRA 2010 web site as well as links to the call for papers and call for participation.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Topics of Interest

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

Workshop Submission Instructions

Please send your proposal to Dimitrios Kosmopoulos at dkosmo@iit.demokritos.gr.

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline:   December 15, 2009

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