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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICOST 2005 Call For Papers Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:37:07 +0100 From: Mounir Mokhtari Mounir.Mokhtari@int-evry.fr To: mounir.mokthari@int-evry.fr CC: Daqing daqing@i2r.a-star.edu.sg, Sylvain Giroux Sylvain.Giroux@USherbrooke.ca References: 6.1.0.6.2.20041111203511.026ca958@merle.it.northwestern.edu

Dear Colleagues,

Sorry if you receive this message more than once. This is an invitation to submit a paper to the 3rd International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics: ICOST'2005. After ICOST'2003 held in Europe, and ICOST'2004 in Asia, next ICOST'2005 is moving to North America and will be hosted by Sherbrooke University in Canada (http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/). Please note that deadline for abstract submission is fixed to 7th February, 2005, and that all selected paper will be published in IOS Press "Assistive Technology Reserach Series".

For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 (9th International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics) will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005).

Please find attached ICOST'2005 call for paper.

Looking forward to welcome your contributions,

Sylvain Giroux, Daqing Zhang and Mounir Mokhtari

ICOST'2005 Chairs

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Call for Papers

Third International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics

ICOST'2005

http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/ July 4-6, 2005 Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Organizer

DOMUS Laboratory, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Co-organizers

Institut National des Télécommunications, Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications, Paris. France

Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

The first edition of ICOST in 2003 took place in Europe. The second edition was hosted in Asia. With a third edition in North America, ICOST reaches the status of a de facto world wide conference. ICOST aims at creating an active research community dedicated to explore how smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. On the one hand, smart homes are augmented environment with embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from computer. We believe in a near future elderly and disabled people will resort to smart assistive technology to carry out daily living activities, socialize, and enjoy entertainment and leisure activities. On the other hand, health telematics makes the most of networks and telecommunications to propose health services, expertise and information at distance. It changes at root the way health related services (diagnosis, therapy, and assistance) can be conceived and used. For instance, telemonitoring can secure relatives and help medical staff to provide for better care.

Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. They are becoming available anywhere, anytime. Current advances in such enabling technologies let foresee novel applications and services for improving the life of elderly and disabled people in their home and outside. The conference will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and enabling technologies. Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

§ Intelligent Environments / Smart Homes

§ Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence

§ Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematics Services

§ Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation

§ Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing

§ Wearable Sensors / Home Health Monitoring

§ Medical Data Collection and Processing

§ Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments

§ Vision / Hearing / Cognitive Devices

§ Personal Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs

§ Home Networks / Residential Gateways

§ Social / Privacy / Security Issues

Each year, ICOST has a specific flavor. ICOST2003 focused on usability. The theme was «Independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly people». ICOST 2004 theme was «Toward a Human-Friendly Assistive Environment». ICOST 2005 aims to address the link between objects, assistance, and cognition. How smart objects may be designed, improved and used to provide personalized assistance? Thus papers or special sessions addressing the following topics are most welcomed: · Cognitive Orthotics /Assisted cognition a.. Location-based services / Personalization b.. Pervasive computing c.. Smart objects / Tangible interfaces d.. RFID / smart tags

In combination with presentations, posters, exhibits and technology demonstrations, you are invited to organize special sessions in any related fields to tackle the new technical challenges.

Full details on the conference are available at: http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca or by e-mail icost2005@usherbrooke.ca.

IMPORTANT DATES

Extended abstract (2-4 pages) Notification of acceptance Final Version / Camera ready

Paper February 7th, 2005 February 28th, 2005 March 28th, 2005

For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005).

Conference Chair Sylvain Giroux Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 2027 Sylvain.Giroux@USherbrooke.ca

Co-Chairs Mounir Mokhtari GET/INT Institut National des Télécommunications Telecommunication Network and Services Department 9, rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex, France Tel: +33-1-60-76-47-55 Fax: +33-1-60-76-42-91 Mounir.Mokhtari@int-evry.fr

Daqing Zhang Acting Manager Context Aware Systems Department Institute for Infocomm Research 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Tel: +65 6874 7860 Fax: +65 6775 5014 daqing@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Program Chair Hélène Pigot Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 3078 Helene.Pigot@USherbrooke.ca

International Scientific Committee a.. Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology , USA b.. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, University of Putra Malaysia c.. Chris Nugent, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK d.. Zeugnam Bien, Korea advanced institute of science and technology, Korea e.. Jit Biswas, Infocom Institute, Singapore f.. Diane Cook, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA g.. Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA h.. Bart Driessen, TNO-TPD Delft, The Netherlands i.. Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA j.. Nick Hine, University of Dundee, UK k.. Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, University of Linz, Austria l.. Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia m.. Robert S. H. Istapanian, Kingston University, UK n.. Jaime Lopez Krahe, University Paris VIII, France o.. Abdallah M'hamed, Institut National des Telecommunications INT/GET, France p.. Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada q.. Gilles Privat, France Telecom, France r.. Tharek ABD Rahman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia s.. Olivier Remy-Neris, CHU of Brest-INSERM, France t.. Dimitar Stefanov, University of Wales Cardiff, UK u.. Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan v.. Machiel Van Der Loos, VA Palo Alto, USA w.. Zhou Xingshe, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., P.R. China

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