AMBIENT 2016

Call for Contributions for
Special session | AIALT: Ambient Intelligence for Assisted Living and Telehealth

Ambient Intelligence (AI) has been adopted as a term referring to environments that are sensitive and responsive to presence of people and it is expected to become the next wave of ubiquitous computing. On the other side, telehealth is defined as the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care, while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site. This will happen by incorporating intrinsic intelligence in pervasive systems to boost research focused on designing smart environments that utilize state-of-the-art advances in sensors and communication technology to support assisted living and telehealth.

Given the limitations imposed to cardiac patients, particularly elderly suffering from chronic diseases like Alzheimer, remote monitoring solutions, specifically wireless and wearable technologies, are of much interest and need to monitor the patient without diminishing his/her quality of life; these solutions are subject to constant improvements.

The aim of this special session is sharing latest progress, current challenges and potential applications of AI and Wearable Sensors (WS) for Assisted Living (AL) and Telehealth.

The topic suggested by the track can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

- Ubiquitous computing for assisted living

- Ambient assisted intelligence

- Ambient intelligence for telehealth

- Vital signs and wireless body area networks for AAL (Ambient Assisted Living)

- Internet of Things (IoT) for AAL

- Tele-Rehabilitation and AAL

- RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) and WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) for AAL

- Signal Fusion in Ubiquitous Environments

- Smart homes for AAL

- Autonomous robotic systems for AAL

- Ambient intelligence for telecardiology

- Ambient intelligence for monitoring ADL (Activities of Daily Living)

- Context-aware Pervasive Systems for AAL

Registration fees and rules

One registration allows the registrant access to all the collocated events. The Registration form (see the conference site) will be active when the acceptance notifications are sent. All attendees need to register.

Fees

Registration

• Tutorials: included in registration
• Workshops: included in registration
• IARIA Fellows: $650
• Full-time students: $650
• Academics (Professors, Research Scientists): $710
• Industry: $895

Late fees (after the registration deadline)

• Late (less than 30 days): Registration + $115
• Very Late (more than 30 days): Registration + $175

Additional page (exceeding 6 pages)

• Per page: $110
  [max 4 extra pages]

D. Additional Guest for the Conference Dinner

• Per person: $95

Notes:

• Authors must be successfully registered to have their contribution listed in the preliminary program
• There is no 'on-site registration' for the authors.
• One registration covers: paper publication services (processing, digital proceedings, digital library, presentation), welcome cocktail, coffee breaks, and conference dinner.

Tracks:

Track 1: Ambient computing environments, sensors and hardware

Fundamental for ambient computing and mechanisms; Environmental sensing and computing; Distributed ambient and artificial intelligence; Autonomic ambient networks and communications; Smart environments and applications; Ubiquitous and mobile computing

Track 2: Ambient computing and modeling

Sentient Computing; Tracking and sensing networks; Location-based computing; Ambient context modeling and reasoning; Context-aware computing; Local and global sensing; Multi-sensory and multi-modal fusion; Citizen-oriented urban computing

Track 3: Ambient devices, applications and systems

Ambient media and devices; Ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to media objects; Sentient offices; Smart phones; Glasses and filters for ambient game and movie; Social networks and social computing; Semanticlocation; Body sensors; Wearable devices; Smart sensors; Smart technologies (smart home, smart metering, smart grids, smart sensors, smart home appliances, etc.)

Track 4: Ambient services, technology and platforms

Personalized services; Ambient assisted living (AAL) ; Social games; Domotics (Home Automation) ; Domestic robotics; Intelligent homes; Tele-care and Telemedicine; Mobile media; Mobile learning; Emergency services; Ambient-oriented technologies (wireless, social networks) ; Universal access; Ambient platforms; Ambient and mobile social networks

Track 5: User Friendly Interfaces

Haptic interfaces; Smart user interfaces; Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) ; Multimodal interfaces and interaction Track 6: Ambient Business Models, Privacy and Trust Business model and business cases, security, privacy and trust, Real-life implementations