======================================= ****************************** ******** Call for Papers ******* ****************************** * * *1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments* *(PETRA) 2008* *July 15-19, Athens, GREECE* * * **Conference Web Site*: http://www.petrae.org/*

As the diffusion of computing technology into everyday life continues at an exponential rate, elements of technology are increasingly being embedded in artifacts and environments. One important environment for this diffusion is the domestic environment, or Oikos as it was known in ancient Greece. Peoples’ living environments are particularly important when one takes into account the world’s aging population and the fact that as people grow older they are increasingly relying on technology. People will however, have differing levels of computer knowledge and assisted living needs. As a result of these differences the first key area of PETRA is: how to build pervasive technologies for assistive environments that are non-intrusive and easy to use for the end user. The second key area is the technology, as it is now increasingly possible to assist people who have health care needs in their homes by using sensors, databases, personal area networks, ubiquitous connectivity, distributed intelligence and adaptive easy to use interfaces and interactions. However in order to provide such support it is necessary to combine efforts from many areas of engineering and computer science e.g. security, embedded systems, distributed systems, data management and networking.

It is at this critical moment that we would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference. * * * * Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: *· *Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments *· *Privacy, security and trust *· *Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments *· *Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies *· *Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback *· *Sensor networks for pervasive care *· *Standards and interoperability *· *Probes for gathering requirements in household settings *· *Context aware mobile networks *· *Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing *· *Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments *· *Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces

*Conference Proceedings:* ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library. Authors should use the ACM Word or LaTeX style templates to prepare their articles. See:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The Classification Scheme can be found at:

http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ * * *Journal:* *· *The best papers from the 1st ACM International Conference on "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA 2008" will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer)- Special Issue on Pervasive Technologies for Assistive Environments. *· *Selected papers describing research work on the social impact and effect of the use of pervasive technologies will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society - UAIS. The theme of the UAIS Special Issue is: PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: SOCIAL IMPACT, FINANCIAL, GOVERNMENT AND PRIVACY ISSUES. *· *Selected posters will appear at eJeta.

*Important dates:* *· *Paper Submission Deadline: */February 28, 2008 (Extended)/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */March 20, 2008/* *· *Submission of Final Camera Ready Paper: */April 10, 2008/* *· *Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline: */January 20, 2007/* *· *Notifications of Acceptance: */January 30, 2008/* *· *Paper Submission to Workshops: */March 30, 2008/* *· *Notifications of Workshops Paper Acceptance: */April 30, 2008/* *· *Camera Ready Workshops Papers: */20 May, 2008/* *· *Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline: */February 20, 2008/* *· *Poster** Submissions Deadline: */March 30, 2008/* *· *CONFERENCE DATES: */JULY 15-19, 2008/*

* * *Submission information:* Submissions must present unpublished work, not submitted to other journals or conferences for consideration of publication. Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages, formatted according to ACM Word or LaTeX style templates. Papers may be accepted either as full papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the official conference proceedings by ACM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. * * *People* */ /* */Steering Committee/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Grammati Pantziou - TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Regular* Student** Early registration: April 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… Late registration: May 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… On-site registration: June 15, 2008 TBA… TBA… */ /* */General Chairs/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* */ /* */Program Committee Co-Chairs/* Kimon Valavanis - University of South Florida, USA Ilias Maglogiannis - University of the Aegean, Greece */ /* */Organizing Committee Chairs/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Program Committee/* Yiannis Aloimonos - */University of Maryland, USA/* Vassilis Athitsos - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Lynne Baillie */- Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* David Benyon - */Napier University Merchiston Campus, UK/* Andrew Campbell - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Guanling Chen - */University of Massachussetts at Lowell, USA/* Diane Cook - */Washington State University, USA/* Domenico Cotroneo - */University of Napoli Federico II, Italy/* Sajal Das - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Salim Hariri - */Arizona State University, USA/* Stathes Hadjiefthymiades - */Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Vangelis Karkaletsis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Morten Kyng - */University of Aarhus, Denmark/* */Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Fillia Makedon - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Ilias Maglogiannis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* Ian McClelland - */Philips Applied Technologies, Netherlands/* Dimitris Metaxas - */Rutgers University, USA/* Alex Mihailidis - */University of Toronto, Canada/* Charles Owen - */Michigan State University, USA/* Maja Pantic - */Imperial College, UK/* Grammati Pantziou - */TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece/* Costas Pattichis - */University of Cyprus, Cyprus/* Joi Roberts - */Motorola, USA/* Niilo Saranummi - */VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Bhavani Thuraisingham - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* John Waterworth - */Umea University in Northern Sweden/* */ /* */Organizing Committee/* Eric Becker - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Petros Belsis - */TEI of Athens, Greece/* Charalampos Doukas - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* James Ford - */Dartmouth College, USA/* Zhengyi Le - Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vangelis Metsis - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Rajat Mittal - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Manolis Wallace - */University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece/* Rong Zhang */- Dartmouth College, USA/* */ /* */Industry Relations Co-Chairs/* Lynne Baillie - */Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria/* Jeff Lei - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos */- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Workshop Co-Chairs/* Christos Douligeris */- University of Piraeus, Greece/* Zhengyi Le - */Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Dimitrios Kosmopoulos - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* Dimitrios Vogiatzis - */NCSR "Demokritos", Greece/* */ /* */Poster Co-Chairs/* Heng Huang - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Euripidis Loukis - */University of the Aegean, Greece/* */ /* */Publicity Co-Chairs/* Andreas Savvides - */Yale University, USA/* Balakrishnan Prabhakaran - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* */ /* */Keynote Speakers/* Frederica Darema - */Senior Science and Technology Advisor, NSF/CISE/* Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos - */University of Minnesota, USA/* */ /* */Invited Speakers/* Dinesh Bhatia - */University of Texas at Dallas, USA/* Matt Bishop - */University of California, Davis, USA/* Michail Bletsas */- MIT Media Lab, USA/* Roger Bostelman - */National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA/* Bill Carroll - */University of Texas at Arlington, USA/* Magda Tsolaki - */Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece/* Aria Tzika - */Harvard University, USA/*

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