[AISWorld] Call for Papers - 7th International Conference on Pervasive Health

[Sweta Sneha]

Dear Colleagues:

The 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (http://pervasivehealth.org/2013/show/home) will be held on May 5th–8th, 2013 Venice, Italy. 

The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life, regardless of space and time. To achieve this, it is necessary to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. The 2013 edition of Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures. The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and concerns. The following is a list of tracks and potential topics:

Pervasive Healthcare Management 

•Challenges surrounding data quality 
•Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
•Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare 
•Business cases and cost issues 
•Security and privacy issues 
•Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare 
•Legal and regulatory issues 
•Staffing and resource management 

Understanding Users 

•Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
•Usability and acceptability 
•Barriers to adoption, and enablers 
•Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion 
•Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services 
•Patient empowerment 
•Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements
•Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

•Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data
•Activity recognition and fall detection
•User modelling and personalization
•Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments
•Sensor-based decision support systems
•Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors
•Wearable and implantable sensor integration
•Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments
•Data mining medical patient records
•Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middleware
•Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Applications

•Autonomous systems to support independent living
•Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies
•Telemedicine
•Chronic disease and health risk management applications
•Health/Wellbeing promotion and disease prevention
•Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring
•Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients
•Smart homes and hospitals
•Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data
•Wellbeing and lifestyle support
•Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments
•Systems to support caregivers

Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories:

Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions describing results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field.


Medical Perspective Abstracts (1-2 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work in traditional medicine whose results are interesting to Pervasive Health audience. This track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way to learn about ongoing research initiatives, both in medicine and technology, and will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts.


Short Papers (up to 4 pages long): short papers are envisioned as submissions describing original research that is much more focused and smaller in scope than full research papers. Short papers are not expected to provide all the details on the research, but rather focus on the most innovative and salient aspects. In addition, short papers are not expected to include a comprehensive review of related work. Short papers will be presented during the main track of the conference.


Position papers and posters (up to 2 pages long): this category combines submissions reporting on the progress of ongoing research and insights into the lessons learned from current (industrial, practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare practice. The position papers and posters track is envisioned to provide a practical view of the real challenges and needs of healthcare providers and consumers, and thus build stronger links between the research community and practitioners in the field.

Demos (2 pages submissions) - The demos track will showcase the latest developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the conference.
The expected demo submissions should describe the technical details of the demo alongside its contribution to the healthcare domain.


Workshop proposals (2 pages submissions) - Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to pervasive healthcare.


Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) - This one-day event will enable doctoral students to present and reflect on their work alongside other doctoral students and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a description of work done, intended future work, alongside a specific research question or challenge that you would like to be discussed at the consortium.

Each paper will be blind, peer-reviewed by members of the Pervasive Health 2013 program committee with additional expert reviewers drawn from relevant research domains.

The best papers of the Conference will be invited to submit an extended version for a Special Issue on Methods of Information in Medicine Journal (impact factor 1.532 in 2011).

All accepted submissions will be published in both, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library (to be confirmed). The acceptance rate was around 30% for Pervasive Health 2010, 2011 and 2012. 

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal: November 16th, 2012
Paper Submission: February 1st 2013, 24:00 (CET)
Medical Perspective Abstracts: March 29th, 2013 
Notification of Acceptance: March 22nd, 2013 
Camera Ready: April 12th, 2013

The conference attracts audience from a diverse field including: 
•Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions 
•Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 
•Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing 
•Hardware and Software Infrastructures 

For further inquiries please visit the conferece website (http://pervasivehealth.org/2013/show/home) and/or contact any member of the conference organizing committee. 

Regards,
Sweta Sneha

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Sweta Sneha, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
Michael J. Coles College of Business
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw GA 30144
Phone: 770-853-0661
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