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1st Baltic Workshop on Ambient Health Monitoring (AmbiHealth'2012)
September 28, 2012, Luebeck, Germany
http://www.ambient.uni-luebeck.de/ambihealth2012/
Call for Papers
The continuously growing life expectancy in combination with the massively
increasing cost of healthcare in most industrial countries leads to significant
challenges in the provision of appropriate healthcare services. 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-templates
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=ambihealth2012
ORGANIZATION
This workshop is hosted by the Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences
(http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/) and the Institute of Telematics (http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/)
at the University of Luebeck, Germany.
Chair:
Andreas Schrader (University of Luebeck, Germany)
TPC members:
Guido Barbian (Institute of Knowledge and Information Management, LEUPHANA University Lueneburg, Germany)
Dr. med. Matteo Mario Bonsanto (Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck)
Petra Friedrich (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Kempten, Germany)
Ulrich G. Hofmann (Department for Neurosurgery, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)
Hartmut Gehring (Institute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Stefan Gessler (NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany)
Björn Gottfried (Artificial Intelligence Research Group, University of Bremen, Germany)
Andreas Hein (Institute for Complex Integrated Systems and Microsensors, University of Oldenburg & OFFIS, Germany) Josef Ingenerf (Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Alexander Katalinic (Institute for Clinical Epidemiology, University of Luebeck)
Thomas Kirste (Mobile Multimedia Information Systems Group, Department of Aging Sciences and Humanitis, University of Rostock, Germany)
Dagmar Lühmann (Institute of Social Medicine, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Alfred Mertins (Institute of Signal Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Heiner Raspe (ZBV - Zentrum für Bevölkerungsmedizin und Versorgungsforschung, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Kay Römer (Institute of Technical Informatics, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Jens-Martin Träder (Institute of General Medicine, University of Luebeck, Germany)
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Schrader
Ambient Computing AG
UNIVERSITÄT ZU LÜBECK
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