[agents] CFP: Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care

[Brahnam]

Dear colleagues,

Please find below a Call for Papers for the Invited Session on "Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care" @ InMed-2014 to be held in San Sebastian, Spain: 09 - 11 July 2014. We apologize if you receive duplicate copies of this announcement. Please use email address below for all questions. A pdf copy of this CFP is available here: http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/cms/userfiles/is01a.pdf

Best Regards,
Sheryl Brahnam and Lakhmi Jain
sbrahnam (at) missouristate.edu
Special Session Chairs

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** Advances in Serious Games, Alternative Realities, and Play Therapy in Health Care
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** Invited Session of KES International Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 
** (InMed-14)
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**  http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/
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** July 09-11, 2014
** San Sebastian, Spain
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:: About :: 
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Papers are invited on the latest technologies offering therapy, rehabilitation, and more general well-being care. Papers should address theoretical, artistic, professional, and practical aspects of progress in this area as well as new directions in research. Position papers and critical papers are welcomed.

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:: Topics :: 
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The subject areas will include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Descriptions of new therapeutic play and play therapy systems involving alternative realities (virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality).
* Serious games, virtual reality, and augmented reality in Healthcare.
* Virtual therapist concepts, e.g. Tele-healthcare, TeleAbilitation, remote doctor, etc.
* Embodied conversational agents in health care.
* Novel well-being applications (for increasing IQ, losing weight, diabetes management, brain injury rehabilitation, reducing stress, and for exercising and staying fit) .
* Design issues involving location (hospitals, clinics, and home-based therapies).
* Perception, AI, and adaptive systems research related to therapeutic play and play therapy system.s
* Human-computer interaction considerations for play therapy for special needs populations.
* Models for intervention, assessment and evaluation.

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:: Important Dates :: 
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Manuscript Due Date:    April 4, 2014
Final Decision Date:    May 2, 2014
Final Submission:       May 30, 2014
Conference Dates:       July 9-11, 2014

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:: Program Contact ::
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Sheryl Brahnam
sbrahnam (at) missouristate.edu
Computer Information Systems, 
Missouri State University, 
901 South National Avenue, 
Springfield, MO 65804, USA; 

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:: Proceedings ::
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Authors who submit and present their work will have their papers published and indexed internationally by Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science (for information:  http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science/).

Selected and extended papers will be considered for publication in periodicals indexed by Web of Science and KES journals.

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::  Paper submission and format ::
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Carefully read the author guidelines at: http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/submission.php (see link below if trouble with this link).

Visit http://inmed14.innovationkt.org/prose.php to submit and track your paper using PROSE. Papers are required to be in PDF format; however, each submission must also be accompanied by the source text, either in Latex or MS Word.