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Pervasive Health 2011 - Workshop Call for Papers

The 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for
Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2011 (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/),
presents 10 workshops that address innovative and important topics related
to the application of pervasive technologies in the field of healthcare. The
workshops provide an informal forum for participants to exchange developing
research results and ideas. 

Workshops will take place during the first day of the conference (23rd May,
2011) in the School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Workshop Co-Chairs

.          Marilyn McGee-Lennon, School of Computing Science, University of
Glasgow, UK.

.          Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, UK 

Important Dates: 

Workshops Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 25th 2011

Notification of Acceptance: March 25th 2011

Camera ready manuscripts due: April 25th 2011

Workshop organisers - Notify the workshop chairs by April 11th the following
details:

-          number of expected participants (min and max if unknown)

-          number of accepted papers (with titles and authors)

-          room requirements (layout, technical requirements)

Publishing: 

Authors should use the Main Conference paper formatting guidelines 

(http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=author_skit). The workshop
proceedings will be published online in IEEE Explore as a supplement to the
main conference proceedings.

Your workshop committee might also seek additional printed publication of
extended version of selected papers and/or outputs from the workshop -
please email them directly to confirm.

Registration: 

Not Open. Details to be confirmed.

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W1

Integration within Health Services of Assisted-Living, Tele-Medicine &
Tele-Healthcare Systems - Theory, Guidelines & Practical Experiences

Tele-medicine and tele-healthcare systems are one of the proposed solutions
to the reform agenda in the health services. Yet, large scale deployment
remains a challenge due to the complexity of needs, fragmentation of the
e-health industry, lack of standards and issues of interoperability of
systems, a lack of underlying clinical evidence-based of successful outcomes
and entrenched resistance to innovation from some certain sections of the
health services or services users.

The goal of this workshop is be to gather a wide range of experts and
practitioners with experience of some of the issues highlighted above and
share their experience, with a strong emphasis on practical implementations
within health services. By bringing experts and researchers under a single
roof, the workshop organisers aim to foster exchange of experience and
expertise and foment future collaboration between the workshop participants.

Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

- Design and Implementation of e-health Systems

- Users Experiences, Patient-centred Care and Design, Digital Inclusion

- Support for Health Professionals, Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings

- Intelligent Information Systems & Decision Support Systems Design

- Knowledge Representation & Automated Reasoning in e-healthcare Systems

- Ontologies for e-health systems.

- Interoperability and Integration Challenges and Solutions

Website - TBC

Contact - Matt-Mouley Bouamrane (Matt-Mouley.Bouamrane at glasgow.ac.uk)

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W2

MindCare

Mental disorders affect around a quarter of all people at some time during
their life. Apart from their treatment, special emphasis should be put on
the prevention of healthy subjects aiming to their cognitive well-being. The
focus of the workshop is placed on the exploitation of technology in favor
of cognitive and emotional well-being. The goal is to include research
projects that are using pervasive computing paradigms in order to augment
mental health, concerning both healthy subjects and patients. We are looking
for the research contributions on topics including but not limited to:

-          ICT-based systems for the assessment of psychological stress

-          Unobtrusive tracking of long-term cognitive changes

-          Automatic mood recognition

-          Employing Bio and Activity sensors to monitor mental health

-          Virtual reality approaches for therapy

-          Persuasive solutions for relieving stress/improving mood state

-          Investigating the influence of environmental factors on emotional
status

Website - TBC

Contact -         Aleksandar Matic (CREATE-NET) -
(aleksandar.matic at create-net.org)

Gennaro Tartarisco (CNR) - (gennaro.tartarisco at ifc.cnr.it)

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W3

Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health
environments (PervaSense2011)

The aim of this workshop is to attract the presentation of state-of-the-art
research in the three areas of situation recognition (i.e., detection of
falls, Activities of Daily Living, context-aware situation recognition),
medical data analysis (vital signs data analysis, short- and long-term
deviations in the state of health, decision support), and behavior
monitoring (trend analysis for the detection of long-term deviations in
persons behavior for detecting age-related diseases like dementia or
Alzheimer) in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living environments.

This workshop will touch technological aspects such as data fusion in
pervasive healthcare environments and decision support algorithms, as well
as social implications and acceptance of these technologies. Furthermore,
real-life applications of situation recognition in home monitoring and
clinical environments, e.g., for individualized feedback systems, will be
covered.

Website - TBC

Contact - Klaus-Hendrik Wolf (klaus-hendrik.wolf at plri.de);

Holger Storf (holger.storf at iese.fraunhofer.de)

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Cognitive Sensor Networks for Pervasive Health (CoSN-PH 2011)

In the near future, global smart world infrastructures will become a
commodity that will support various activities of daily life at different
degrees of realism. Such infrastructures have the potential to offer
dedicated, context- and situation-aware information and services by
simultaneously providing the next-generation of data collection, execution
and service provisioning layers. One key aspect of this vision is the
correct monitoring and understanding of how people interact with their
environment; how they can actually benefit from the added intelligence; and
finally how future services can be improved or better personalized to
enhance human environment interaction as a whole. This level of intelligence
is of particular relevance in the health and social care domain where
person-centric services can be deployed to assist or even enable a person in
performing activities of daily living and also to support the coordination
and management of caregivers and general management structures. 

The Proposed workshop is envisioned to highlight the potential of cognitive
and pervasive sensor networks for the area of pervasive health; to identify
key requirements for such a framework in relation to the needs of pervasive
health; to identify and evaluate novel ideas and to discuss current and
future research directions. 

Website - TBC

Contact - Matthias Baumgarten (m.baumgarten at ulster.ac.uk)

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W5

Envisaging the Future of Home Rehabilitation

Many researchers are currently investigating ways in which to deliver health
care and assistance in the home. This workshop will focus on how to design
systems for rehabilitation in the home and investigate how technology can
encourage adherence in a myriad of ways from visualisations to games. 

The workshop aims to bring together a wide range of researchers who are
working on home-based systems that provide the user with guidance /
assistance for home-based activities/exercises with the aim of eliminating
direct supervision by allied health professionals such as physiotherapists
or occupational therapists. We are particularly interested in systems that
will encourage independence and boost patients' confidence in the home or
other care settings. 

Website - TBC

Contact - Lynne Baillie (L.Baillie at gcu.ac.uk)

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W6

Orange Alerts - Behaviour Modeling and Health of older people in their homes

Many of the commercial systems that look at caring for older people in their
homes focus on the emergency scenarios, or red alerts, when a person has
fallen or is otherwise incapacitated. But to truly care for people in their
homes more has to be done to take action based on orange alerts scenarios,
such as depression, cognitive decline or physical decline.

The proposed workshop intends to look at what has been done to date on
behaviour modeling and health decline detection of older people in their
homes, what is missing from the research and what is required for industry
to be able to provide this technology to older people. Focusing on:

-          Data fusion

-          Scenario detection

-          Self learning solutions

-          Real time behaviour detection platforms

Website - TBC

Contact - Ben Knapp (ben.knapp at casala.ie)

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Advances in Techniques and Technologies Assisting Care at Home (ATTACH)

The goal of this workshop is to bring together a mixed audience of
researchers, developers and practitioners with an active interest in
technologies that support delivery of care in the home. Papers are solicited
on theoretical underpinnings, new techniques, practical implementation or
experience reports concerning aspects including the following:

-          architectures and platforms for home care systems

-          sensor and actuator networks for the home, including novel
devices for telecare/telehealth

-          automated collection, analysis and interpretation of home care
data

-          design and assessment of novel interfaces for home care systems

-          specific solutions to help with activities of daily living,
prompting, reminding, guidance,

-          communication and community-building

-          policy, economic, psychological and social factors in home care
technology

-          privacy, confidentiality, security and ethical issues in
computer-supported home care.

Website - TBC

Contact - Ken Turner (kjt at cs.stir.ac.uk)

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W8

First International Workshop on Pervasive Care for People with Dementia and
their Carers (PCPDC-2011)

One group of the ageing population that is particularly vulnerable to loss
of independence is those affected by dementia. It is estimated that around
820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Recently emerging computing and
assistive technology have been used to attempt to improve the quality of
life for people with dementia. This workshop aims to provide a forum for
discussion on challenges and opportunities in bringing technology to support
people with dementia. The workshop will feature the theme of 'engaging
people with pervasive technology'.

This workshop will feature the theme of 'engaging people with pervasive
technology' in dementia research. Researchers from academic, healthcare,
industrial and third party organisations are invited to contribute. Early
researchers and researchers from healthcare are particularly welcome. 

Theme 1 - What are the opportunities of pervasive care technology

Theme 2 - User engagement

Website - TBC

Contact - Suzanne Martin (s.martin at ulster.ac.uk)

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W9

Therapeutic Serious Games and Pervasive Computing

The overall goal of the workshop is to identify and address technological,
medical and ethical challenges to enable: (i) development of pervasive
therapeutic serious games (theragames) (ii) their seamless integration
within current medical practices regardless of space and time, opening
consequently opportunities for tele-rehabilitation.  The workshop aims to
gather ICT experts, practitioners, therapists, managers and industrials
involved in the domain of pervasive theragames with the objective of
identifying and addressing theragames' challenges from a technological,
medical, social and ethical perspective. Original contributions from the
following fields are welcomed:  therapeutic health professions, serious
games and theragames, human-computer interaction (HCI), artificial
intelligence, sensing technologies and distributed computing, hardware and
software infrastructures.

This workshop is interested on the following research topics:

.          Identifying and understanding problems from technological,
medical, social and ethical perspective (with an emphasis on acceptance from
patients and therapists perspective)

.          design, implementation and evaluation of theragames

.          economical models and integration strategies of theragames within
healthcare systems 

Website - TBC

Contact - Ines Di Loreto (diloreto at lirmm.fr)

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W10

User-Centered Design of Pervasive Healthcare Applications

Research in the area of pervasive healthcare systems has reached a point
where significant improvements are only possible if academics and
practitioners from various disciplines collaborate in order to develop new
strategies for conceptualizing, designing, and implementing new
applications.

The underlying strategies must be harmonized and balanced in two ways:
first, within the technological areas, and second, regarding the integration
of technologies into the medical, cognitive, and social context. This also
includes the way technology acts within the life courses of individuals and
societies, and the balance of the benefits that technology brings against
perceived or actual medical, social as well as ethical risks. Therefore,
this workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners
from different fields to share their research positions and practical
experiences and discuss new ideas, innovative approaches and challenging
research questions, which have the potential to motivate future research
activities within the field of pervasive healthcare applications.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines
to discuss the interrelation of medical, environmental, technical,
communicative, psychological and social factors and their consequences for
the design, use and acceptance of pervasive healthcare systems.

Website - TBC

Contact - Martina Ziefle (Ziefle at humtec.rwth-aachen.de)

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Pervasive Health 2011 - Call for Demos

The 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for
Healthcare, Pervasive Health 2011 (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/), invites
demonstration proposals that address innovative and important topics related
to the application of pervasive technologies in the field of healthcare. The
demos track will showcase the latest developments and prototypes related to
the topics of interest of the conference. The expected demo submissions
should describe the technical details of the demo alongside its contribution
to the healthcare domain.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Demonstrations provide an opportunity to present a demonstration of your
work, research, service, prototype or product addressing one or more of the
suggested topics as presented in the general call for participation. We seek
proposals for demonstrations of pervasive technologies across the full
environment of healthcare, starting from clinical applications to wearable,
ambient and home based health monitoring technologies up to assistive
devices and educational or motivational aids. A successful demo communicates
ideas and concepts in a powerful way, a regular presentation cannot. We
therefore encourage making your demonstration visually or otherwise
appealing and presenting it in an innovative way.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions should be a maximum of two pages (including figures). Your
extended abstract should be submitted by Monday, March 7, 2011 (5:00pm GMT)
directly to the Demo Chair John Barton (john.barton at tyndall.ie), according
to the IEEE Pervasive Health 2011 Proceedings format. Each submission will
be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Confidentiality of submissions
is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be
kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted
submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference.
Demo proposals must describe the demo research framework, and what
conference attendees will be able to enjoy and experiment. Proposals will be
judged on their relevance for the Pervasive Health community, level of
innovation, technical merit, conceptual contribution and the potential to
include participation by conference attendees. Note that network
connectivity will be provided by the conference organization.

PUBLICATION

Accepted proposals abstracts (including figures) of the demonstration will
be distributed together with the poster/workshop papers in the supplementary
conference proceedings.

DEMONSTRATION CHAIR

If you have questions about Demonstrations for Pervasive Health 2011,
contact the Demonstrations Chair:

E-mail: John Barton (john.barton at tyndall.ie) 

Website: (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=callfor_demos)

IMPORTANT FACTS

Submission deadline: Monday, March 7, 2011 (5:00pm GMT) 

Submission format: Anonymous document containing a two page abstract in the
IEEE Pervasive Health 2010 Proceedings format Notification of acceptance:
Monday 21 March 2011 

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Pervasive Health 2011 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers

We are pleased to announce the first Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral
Consortium. The consortium offers Ph.D. students the opportunity to engage
with other doctoral students and to receive feedback from experienced
reviewers and scholars. Pervasive health is a challenging and rapidly
developing area of research where the exchange of ideas and discussion of
concepts, directly with other researchers, is an effective way of gaining
new insights and identifying opportunities for possible collaborations.

The doctoral consortium will enable doctoral students to present and reflect
on their work and receive feedback from a panel of experts.

Submissions should clearly state:

.          the background to the research 

.          the specific problem the research is intended to address

.          the methodological approach adopted

.          a description of work done to date

.          the contribution or expected contribution

.          intended future work

.          specific issues related to doctoral research that you would like
to discuss at the consortium

Submission and Review Process

Submissions (up to 4 pages) should follow the formatting and preparation
criteria provided in the Authors Kit. (See
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=author_skit) also available from
the conference website. Submissions in .pdf format should be made directly
to the doctoral consortium chairs.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel, and based upon these reviews a
number of the submissions will be presented at the consortium.

Critical Dates

.          4 February 2011 Submission deadline

.          11 April 2011 Author notification

.          25 April 2011 Camera-ready paper deadline

.          23-26th May Conference dates

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

.          Kelly Caine, Indiana University, USA

.          Tom O'Kane, University College Cork, Ireland

Contacts

.          caine at indiana.edu

.          t.okane at ucc.ie

Website

.          http://www.pervasivehealth.org