The 3rd International Conference on
PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
CALL FOR PAPERS
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PETRA 2010 (www.petrae.org)
June 23-25, Samos, Greece
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Conference Theme
The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address
an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there
is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as
for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas.
PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment,
or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective.
People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded
and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest
of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will
increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes.
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Topics
Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments
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Privacy, security and trust, especially risk analysis of sharing health data
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Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies, including requirements for probes for gathering this information in household settings
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Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback
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Sensor networks for pervasive care
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Robotics and automation in assistive living systems
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Human Centered Computing and the Senior Citizen; Usability and HCI interfaces
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Signal and image processing for ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
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Reasoning systems and machine learning for assistive environments
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Social, ethical, legal and e-government issues in pervasive healthcare and aging
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Social impacts of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments
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Nanotechnology for pervasive health environments
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Global Healthcare and the Citizen’ Standards and interoperability
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Information Technology and Biomedicine and/or Telemedicine
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See more topics in http://www.petrae.org
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General Chair:
Fillia Makedon,
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Program Committee Chairs:
Matt Bishop,
University of California Davis, USA
Ilias Maglogiannis,
University of Central Greece, GREECE
Local Organizing Committee Chair:
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos,
University of the Aegean,GREECE
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Important dates
Full Paper Submission Deadline:
November 15, 2009
Short Paper Submission Deadline:
February 15, 2009
Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline:
December 15, 2009
Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline:
December 15, 2009
Poster Submissions Deadline:
February 25, 2010
*All conference papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to special journal issues.
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