mHealth 2016 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on mHealth Technology for Individuals, Groups, and Communities

The ubiquity and rapid advances of mobile health technology (mHealth) and wearable health and well-being technologies offer exciting opportunities for individuals, groups, and communities to actively engage in care. While the area of mHealth is attracting much attention from researchers and practitioners now a days, many key questions still remain to be answered: are these technology in a state that enable care and are we ready to fully benefit from such technology? How does mHealth technology contribute to the lives of individuals, groups, and communities as a whole? Is there a difference between developed and underserved communities, both in developed and developing countries in terms of technology design, their usage, and impact? What kinds of challenges and opportunities of mHealth in this rapidly changing setting need to be addressed? How can we design new mHealth technology and/or modify existing mHealth technology to better serve individuals, groups, and communities? This workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners, and developers from a variety of disciplines who are focusing their attention to design and develop cutting edge mobile-based mHealth technology, and/or investigating the efficacy of such technology in real-life situation. These technologies span both hardware and software, and are targeted to improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities. The outcome of this workshop will be a position paper identifying the primary challenges for research and development in mHealth technology and outlining ways to overcome these barriers.
Scope of the workshop
Researchers and practitioners, from a variety of disciplines all over the world, from both academia and industry, working in the mHealth domain for betterment of human lives are invited to discuss state of the art solutions, key challenges, recent developments, applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the development and use of mHealth technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Design for well-being in everyday living
Long-term and short term monitoring and management of health
Applications targeted to specific user groups (e.g., stress management, smoking cessation, obesity)
mHealth Technology for underserved community and underdeveloped country
Technology for group care
Lessons from technology use in the field setting
The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to 6 pages (IEEE Proceedings style) with up to 2 additional pages (with charges for each additional page) printed on 10-12 point fonts. Authors must follow IEEE CS Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop in person.