Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support for the Elderly

Workshop Details

Appropriate assistance particularly for elder people needs to take into account affective and emotional as well as social aspects. Technologically, it requires specific interaction methods, suitable presentation of information, adequate sensing techniques and appropriately communicative and assistive devices. This workshop wants to provide a platform for researchers and product developers alike to exchange and propose new ideas, discuss novel technologies and approaches, and not least to show latest developments and project results.

11 June 2009 - 11 June 2009

Corfu, Greece

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Call for Papers
Call for Workshop Papers Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support for the Elderly A workshop in the frame of the PETRA 2009 conference: http://www.petrae.org/ Deadline: March 01, 2009

SUBJECT

This workshop is dedicated to affective and assistive technologies to support elderly and other people in need for assistance in their daily activities and social needs.

Comprehensive assistance is more than timely reminders and understandable task lists. Appropriate assistance particularly for elder people needs to take into account affective and emotional as well as social aspects. The need for inclusiveness and independent, self-managed life in the home environment requires novel techniques for both, detection of situations in which assistance is needed, and for the assistance itself. Technologically, it requires specific interaction methods, suitable presentation of information, adequate sensing techniques and appropriately communicative and assistive devices.

This workshop wants to provide a platform for researchers and product developers alike to exchange and propose new ideas, discuss novel technologies and approaches, and not least to show latest developments and project results.

We particularly solicit contributions on the following subjects:

non-obtrusive activity monitoring
non-obtrusive technologies for fall-detection
non-obtrusive observation of persons in their home environment for affect-related signs
mobile sensing of affect-related parameters
multi-modal analysis of affective and behavioural data
mobile assistance in daily activities, for health care and therapeutic support
assistive robots in the home and health context
affective human-technology interaction
novel interaction methods tailored to the elderly
studies on elderly and their attitudes to and interaction with technology

Contributions can be submitted as either full paper (8 pages) or short paper (4 pages). Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings of the conference. ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings which 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: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ Note that at least one author, of each accepted paper, is required to register and present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers submissions due : March 01
Notification of Acceptance : March 15
Camera-ready papers due : March 31

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Christian Peter, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Kostas Karpouzis, ICCS/NTUA Athens, Greece
Gerald Bieber, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Elisabeth Andre, Univ. of Augsburg, Germany
George Demiris, University of Washington, USA
Stefanos Kollias, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite de Paris 8, France
Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Hartmut Strese, VDI/VDE - IT GmbH, Germany
John Waterworth, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

Deadline: 01 March 2009

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