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Workshop on during IEEE ICME 2009 Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)

Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html) -----------------

Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable.

The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications

We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal.

Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009

Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba@utdallas.edu

2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara@cs.uiuc.edu

3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh@utdallas.edu

Workshop Technical Program Committee ------------------------------------ 1. Sethuraman(Panch) Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA 2. Hari Sundaram, Arizona State University, USA 3. Daby Sow, IBM Research, USA 4. Ya-Ti Peng, Intel, USA 5. Kenneth L Watkin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 6. Robin Hillary Kravets, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 7. Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 8. Mark Spong, University of Texas at Dallas, USA