PervasiveHealth 2014 - Call for Papers
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http://pervasivehealth.org/2014
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Apologies for cross-posting!
New Extended Deadlines
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Workshop Proposals: 2 December 2013
Full Paper Submission: 16 December 2013
Short Papers and Posters: 16 December
2013
Medical Perspective Abstracts: 16 December
2013
Conference Aims
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PervasiveHealth is a premier international
forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to
the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and wellbeing. The overall
goal of the Pervasive Health Conference is to take a multidisciplinary
approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development.
The Pervasive Healthcare Community is
addressing a broad scope of research topics and concerns:
- identify and understand problems from
a technological, social, and medical perspective (with a particular emphasis
on understanding and supporting patient needs);
- design, implementation, and evaluation
of supporting hardware and software infrastructures, algorithms, and applications;
and
- organisational strategies that facilitate
integration of Pervasive Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise.
Traditional healthcare environments
are extremely complex and challenging to manage, as they are required to
cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances
with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies
seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by successfully integrating
them within existing health care environments. Technologies, standards
and procedures on their own provide little and or no meaningful service.
It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments, through a combined
approach of data collection, data correlation and data presentation, assist
health care professionals in delivering high levels of patient care, and
empower individuals and their families for self-care and health management.
The Pervasive Healthcare conference
in Oldenburg aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry
and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development
and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures.
We welcome contributions from the following
fields:
- Sensing Technologies and Pervasive
Computing
- Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health
Professions
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- Hardware and Software Infrastructures
We seek novel, innovative, and exciting
work in areas including but not limited to:
Pervasive Healthcare Management
- Challenges surrounding data quality
- Standards and interoperability in
pervasive healthcare
- Business cases and cost issues
- Security and privacy issues
- Training of healthcare professional
for pervasive healthcare
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Staffing and resource management
Understanding Users
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder
needs
- Usability and acceptability
- Barriers to adoption, and enablers
- Social implications of pervasive health
technology, and social inclusion
- Coverage and delivery of pervasive
healthcare services
- Patient empowerment
- Diversity: population and condition-specific
requirements
- Inclusive research and design: engaging
underrepresented populations
- Digital interventions and health behavior
change
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Physiological models for interpreting
medical sensor data
- Activity recognition and fall detection
- User modelling and personalization
- Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare
environments
- Sensor-based decision support systems
- Design and evaluation of patient and
ambient-related sensors
- Wearable and implantable sensor integration
- Data fusion in pervasive healthcare
environments
- Data mining medical patient records
- Software architectures e.g. Agent,
SOA, distributed middleware
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Applications
- Autonomous systems to support independent
living
- Clinical applications, validation
and evaluation studies
- Telemedicine
- Chronic disease and health risk management
applications
- Health/Wellbeing promotion and disease
prevention
- Home based health and wellness measurement
and monitoring
- Continuous vs event-driven monitoring
of patients
- Smart homes and hospitals
- Using mobile devices in the storage,
update, and transmission of patient data
- Wellbeing and lifestyle support
- Systems to support individuals with
auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
- Systems to support caregivers
Venue
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PervasiveHealth 2014 will be conducted
in Oldenburg, a medium-sized city in northwestern Germany, in the middle
between Hamburg (D) and Amsterdam (NL). Embedded in a beautiful, unspoiled
natural landscape the former residence of counts, dukes and grand dukes
is now home to 160,000 people and a vibrant, modern city - a university
city with 4 universities and more than 20,000 students. Going to Oldenburg
is easy: Bremen airport is only 45 minutes away and is just one hop from
the major international airport hubs Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris. Other
major airports in easy reach are in Hamburg, Hanover and Münster/Osnabrück.
Submissions
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The conference invites the submission
of original work through the Confy paper submission system http://confy.eai.eu/
in one or more of the following formats: full and short papers, workshops,
posters, interactive demonstrations. Pervasive Health 2014 will accept
submissions in the following categories:
Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions)
Full papers are submissions describing
results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere
in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers should properly
place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate
the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field.
Short Papers and Posters (up to 4 pages
submissions)
Short papers are envisioned as submissions
describing original research that is much more focused and smaller in scope
than full research papers. Short papers are not expected to provide all
the details on the research, but rather focus on the most innovative and
salient aspects. In addition, short papers are not expected to include
a comprehensive review of related work. Short papers will be presented
during the main track of the conference. Poster category combines submissions
reporting on the progress of ongoing research and insights into the lessons
learned from current (industrial, practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive
healthcare practice.
Medical Perspective Abstracts (1-2 pages
submissions)
Authors are invited to submit work in
traditional medicine whose results are interesting to Pervasive Health
audience. This track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way to learn
about ongoing research initiatives, both in medicine and technology, and
will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable
direct feedback from experts.
Demos (2 pages submissions)
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.
Workshop proposals (2 pages submissions)
- Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The
purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities
for new research related to pervasive healthcare.
Doctoral Colloquium (4 pages)
This event will enable doctoral students
to present and reflect on their work alongside other doctoral students
and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a description of work
done, intended future work, alongside a specific research question or challenge
that you would like to be discussed at the colloquium.
Each paper will be blind, peer-reviewed
by members of the Pervasive Health 2014 program committee with additional
expert reviewers drawn from relevant research domains. Submissions will
be evaluated based on their originality, significance of the contribution
to the field, technical correctness and presentation. The paper should
make explicit how the work offers unique and substantial contribution beyond
what has already been published or submitted. All accepted submissions
will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (pending). Authors will
also be invited to submit their camera-ready papers in ACM format, to be
published in ACM Digital Library. The acceptance rate was around 30% for
Pervasive Health 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Important Dates
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Deadlines were extended by popular request.
New deadlines:
- Workshop Proposals: 2 December 2013
- Full Paper Submission: 16 December
2013
- Short Papers and Posters: 16 December
2013
- Medical Perspective Abstracts: 16
December 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: 21 February
2014
- Camera Ready: 14 March 2014
- Conference Dates: 20-23 May, 2014
Committee
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General Chair
- Andreas Hein, University of Oldenburg
Programme Chairs
- Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg
- Friedrich Köhler, Charité Berlin
Short Papers and Posters Chairs
- Katarzyna Wac, University of Geneva
- Young Seok Lee, Motorola
Medical Abstracts Chair
- Stefan Wagner, Arhus University
Workshop Chair
- Lauren Wilcox, Columbia University
Demo Chair
- Ernö Kovacs, NEC Labs Europe
Doctoral Colloquium Chair
- Katie Siek, Indiana University Bloomington
Publication, Publicity and Web Chairs
- Jochen Meyer, OFFIS
- Heiko Müller, OFFIS
Local Hosts
- Jochen Meyer, OFFIS
- Albert Sill, University of Oldenburg
Contact
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Heiko Müller - [log in to unmask]