AmbiHealth 2012 - 1st Baltic Workshop on Ambient Health Monitoring

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an active research field for developing new concepts and integrated systems for the provision of assistive services for daily life activities with a special focus on medical applications.
The workshop focuses on Ambient Health Monitoring as a novel paradigm of
healthcare provision in our daily living environment. In traditional medical
scenarios, specialised infrastructure and laboratories have been used solely to
obtain the health status of a patient. With the advancement of medical sensor
technologies, wireless personal medical appliances, and powerful commodity
devices (e.g., smartphones), radically new possibilities for real-time and
in-situ monitoring of health parameters have become possible.
Ambient Health Monitoring includes all aspects of comprehensive healthcare
services, including vital parameter sensing, reasoning, awareness,
self-management and intervention. Ambient Health Monitoring broadens the scope of traditional medical data acquisition and intervention techniques to include technology in smart homes, mobile devices, and even in everyday objects, like furniture, clothes or toys. Ambient Health Monitoring therefore covers very different environments, including laboratories, personal spaces, and even urban scenarios. Ambient Health Monitoring also allows for real-time observation of individuals and larger groups, awareness systems for health status reflection, and intervention based on self-organised health-related activities and professional intervention. By advancing the use of Ambient Health Monitoring technology in the context of daily living, we aim to foster an increasingly healthy society.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
(Vital) Sensor Technologies
Sensor Aggregation / Fusion / Reasoning
Fall Detection and Prevention
Activity Recognition
Situation Detection
Wearable Sensors / Wireless Medical Monitoring Appliances
Smart Homes / Smart Devices / Smart Clothes
Telemedicine
Mobile Health Applications
AAL in Rehabilitation
Personal Health Records (PHR)
Context-aware Prevention / Intervention / Therapy
Privacy / Data Security / Transparency / Acceptance
Health Information Systems
Self-Awareness / Motivation Techniques / Persuasive Interfaces
Gamification / Serious Gaming / Elderly Gaming
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: August 10th, 2012
Author Notification: August 24th, 2012
Camera Ready Copy: September 15th, 2012
PAPER SUBMISSION
This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal.
The workshop language is English. We invite prospective authors to submit full-length papers of 6 pages in ACM SIG Proceedings Template (Option 1):
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...
Papers will be subject to blind peer reviews and reviewed based on the relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, as well as soundness and quality of the presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution.
Full papers will be published in an edited volume after a post-workshop revision.
Please submit your contribution using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ambihe...