HealthGIS 2014 - Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Public Health

Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in
Public Health
Held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International
Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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OBJECTIVES
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This workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
to share new ideas and techniques for health-related GIS applications.
We invite submission of original research related to all aspects of
GIS usage and applications in medical and in healthcare systems. We
especially encourage papers based on real-world experience.
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WEB SITE
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http://healthgis.tamu.edu/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: September 5, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 19, 2014
Camera Ready: October 3, 2014
Workshop: November 4, 2014
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TOPICS
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Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to
the following:
- GIS applications to assist people in need, including disabled and
elderly people
- Statistical analysis of environmental or medical spatial information
- Visualization of statistical spatial health-related data
- Privacy and security in location-based health-related systems
- Geographically-based access control for medical systems
- Location-based social networks as a tool to detect the spread of
infectious diseases
- Planning evacuation routes for cases of mass disasters or for daily
transport of people who need emergent medical treatment
- Using mobile computing and GPS in healthcare
- Management of location-based healthcare services
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings. Submitted papers can be of three types:
- Regular Research Papers: these papers should report original
research results or significant case studies. They should be at most
10 pages.
- Case Study Papers: these papers should provide a thorough scientific
analysis of cases that are of interest to the research community. They
should be at most 6 pages.
- Position Papers: these papers should report novel research
directions or identify challenging problems. They should be at most 4
pages.
Paper should be submitted via the workshop submission page in the
following link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=health...
See instruction in the Web page:
http://healthgis.tamu.edu/Submission.aspx
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the
authors will attend the workshop and present their paper. The workshop
proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library.
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ORGANIZERS
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- Daniel W. Goldberg, Texas A&M University (USA)
- Ori Gudes, Curtin University (Australia)
- Yaron Kanza, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, Cornell Tech (USA)
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Daniel W. Goldberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography, College of Geosciences &
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dwight Look College of Engineering
Director, TAMU GeoInnovation Service Center
Texas A&M University
Eller O&M Building, Room 707
TAMU 3147
College Station, Texas 77843-3147
Email: daniel.goldberg-AT-tamu.edu
Tel: 1-979-845-6395
Texas A&M GeoServices - https://geoservices.tamu.edu
Texas A&M GIS Day - http://gisday.tamu.edu
Texas A&M Esri Development Center - http://edc.tamu.edu
TAMU GeoServices Facebookery - http://www.facebook.com/TAMUGeoServices
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