PETRA 2008 - The 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments PETRA 2008

We would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference.

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
Privacy, security and trust
Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments
Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies
Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback
Sensor networks for pervasive care
Standards and interoperability
Probes for gathering requirements in household settings
Context aware mobile networks
Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing
Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments
Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces
[Call For Papers (pdf)]

Important Dates

Paper* Submission Deadline: February 20 28, 2008 (Extended)

Notifications of Acceptance: March 20 24, 2008

Camera Ready Papers: April 10, 2008

Conference Dates: July 15-19, 2008

*Full papers and short papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to special journal issues.

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