PETRA 2010 - The 3rd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments PETRA 2010

Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

-Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and --deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments
-Sensor networks for pervasive health care
-Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, -processing, and feedback
-Aging and Health smart devices
-Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
-Context aware mobile networks
-Healthcare privacy and data security
-User interface design for assistive environments
-Usability and HCI issues, multimodal interfaces
-Reasoning systems and machine learning for assistive environments
-Safety and home design for assistive environments
-Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments
-Integrative user interfaces and visualization for monitoring and caregiver training
-Sensor environments for rehabilitation
-Game design for cognitive assessment and social interaction studies
-Sensor data stream fusion, feature extraction and pattern analysis
-Location tracking
-Gesture and motion tracking
-Sensing of affect, emotion and cognitive state
-Behavior-driven assistance
-Intelligent biomedical devices for assistive environments
-Affect-aware interfaces
-Human-robot interaction
-Distributed robotics
-Image processing tools and applications in healthcare and aging
-User cognitive modeling
-Virtual and augmented reality environments for assistive applications
-Ambient assisted living and health monitoring
-Navigation systems for healthcare
-Data modeling, ontologies and information management for pervasive assistive -environments
-Collaboration and data sharing tools
-Social, ethical, legal and e-government issues in pervasive healthcare and aging
-Wearable devices, wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
-Business cases and cost analysis of assistive environments
-Development of standards
-Home design for intelligent assistive environments
-Drug evaluation and discovery through behavioral pattern analysis
-Clinical and brain health correlation to behavior
-Global Healthcare and the Citizen
-Information Technology and Biomedicine
-Telemedicine and Information Technology
-Human Centered Computing and the Senior Citizen