New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 --------------------------------------------

ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany)

1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems February 26, 2008 http://vaust.uni-lueneburg.de/arcs2008_aal_workshop

Call for Papers: ARCS 2008 PDF-Download http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/sonstige_einrichtungen/vaus t/files/ARCS2008_AAL-Workshop_E.pdf

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The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life.

The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently.

Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods.

Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence · Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms · Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing · User Interfaces · UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing · Technologies for vital data sensing · Position tracking, inertial sensors · Knowledge based Methods · Middleware · Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services · Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet · Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X · Trust · System on Chip platforms · Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions · Service oriented platforms

Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods · Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models · Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems · Social preferences of eldery people · Parameters of acceptance · AAL scenarios

Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration · E-Health, E-Care · Decentralized Communications Support · Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Sustainability of AAL Solutions

Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008