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is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health aims to be a meeting point for those that study age and health-related quality of life and apply information and communication technologies for helping people stay healthier, more independent and active at work or in their community. ICT4AWE facilitates the exchange of information and dissemination of best practices, innovation and technical improvements in the fields of age and health care, education, psychology, social coordination and ambient assisted living. From e-Health to intelligent systems, and ICT devices, the conference is a vibrant discussion and collaboration platform for all those that work in research and development and in companies involved in promoting the quality of life and well-being of people, by providing room for research and industrial presentations, demos and project descriptions.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. AGING WELL - SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE
2. AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
3. TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH


AREA 1: AGING WELL - SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE


  • Aging Population – the Facts, Statistics, the Future
  • Sociocultural Dimension of Aging Population
  • Economic dimension of Aging Population
  • Psychological Dimension of Aging Population
  • Political Dimension of Aging Population
  • Human Communication and Behavioural Studies of Senior Citizens
  • Studies of People with Disabilities
  • Studies of People with Medical Conditions
  • Self-Fulfilment and Social Participation
  • Dignity and Equal Opportunities of Senior Citizens
  • Autonomy and Active Aging
  • Social Exclusion
  • Health Geography, Cultural Issues
  • Management of Health Services
  • Health and Healthcare Economics

AREA 2: AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING


  • Acceptance of Ambient Technology
  • Ambient Technology for Daily Living
  • Ambient Technology for Working Environment
  • Ambient Technology for Health, Emergency and Care
  • Case Studies for Independent Living
  • Internet of Things and Smart Devices for Independent Living
  • Mobile Systems for Independent Living
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Web and Mobile Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Healthcare Robotics
  • Wearable Technologies
  • Smart Environments and Housing
  • Privacy and Ethical Issues
  • Service Systems and eMarketplaces
  • Software and Applications for Independent Living
  • Game-Based Approaches towards Health Awareness
  • Inclusive Design
  • Systems Usability

AREA 3: TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH


  • Electronic Health Records
  • Health Information Systems
  • Management of Telemedicine
  • Systems to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles
  • Mobile Health Monitoring
  • Case Studies in eHealth
  • Business Models for Telemedicine and eHealth
  • Diagnostic Support
  • Open Data and Health Information
  • Emergency and Alerts Handling
  • Home Care Monitoring Systems
  • Mobile Collaboration Technologies
  • eHealth and Education
  • Interoperability and System Integration
  • Security and Privacy in eHealth
  • Data and Real-Time Analytics
  • Medical Data Science Technologies
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Tele-Rehabilitation
  • Biotechnology and Biostatistics
  • Imaging Science
  • Neural Sensory Systems and Rehabilitation
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Personalised Medicine

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Raian AliHamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Maurice MulvennaUniversity Of Ulster, United Kingdom
Jan GulliksenKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (consult SCITEPRESS Ethics of Publication)


It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP, Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, SCOPUS, Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 3 - 5 May, 2020

Paper Submission: January 6, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 12, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 27, 2020 (expired)

Paper Submission: February 5, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification:
March 5, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 30, 2020 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: February 24, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification:
March 17, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 30, 2020 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: December 22, 2019 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 22, 2019 (expired)
Paper Submission: March 10, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 17, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 30, 2020 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 24, 2020 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 24, 2020 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 24, 2020 (expired)

Post Publicationss
Authors Notification: May 14, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: August 10, 2020 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

ICT4AWE Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: ict4ageingwell.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://ict4awe.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Leszek MaciaszekMacquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Nick GuldemondErasmus University, Netherlands
Martina ZiefleRWTH-Aachen University, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mehdi Adda, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
Emmanuel Andres, Independent Researcher, France
Theodoros N. Arvanitis, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Sandra Baldassarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Giacinto Barresi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Angel Barriga, IMSE-CNM-CSIC, Spain
Karsten Berns, Robotics Research Lab, Germany
Damon Berry, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Laurent Billonnet, Xlim Institute - University of Limoges, France
Philipp Brauner, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jane Bringolf, Centre for Universal Design Australia Ltd, Australia
Noel Carroll, NUI Galway, Ireland
Yao J. Chang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Hakima Chaouchi, Institute TELECOM SudParis, France
Mario Ciampi, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Malcolm Clarke, Ondokuz Mayis University, United Kingdom
Stuart Cunningham, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Emiliano Díez, University of Salamanca - INICO, Spain
Choukri Djellali, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada
Georg Duftschmid, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Stefano Federici, University of Perugia, Italy
Deborah I. Fels, Ryerson University, Canada
Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), Portugal
David L. Fuschi, BRIDGING Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom
Alastar Gale, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Ennio Gambi, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy
Nuno Garcia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Mark Gaynor, Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice, United States
Wojciech Glinkowski, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Janis L. Gogan, Bentley University, United States
Javier Gomez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Jaakko Hakulinen, Tampere University, Finland
Tarja Heponiemi, FinnishInstitute for Health and Welfare, Finland
H.J. Hermens, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
Roberto Hornero, University of Valladolid, Spain
David Isern, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Eila Järvenpää, Aalto University, Finland
Petr Ježek, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Jeongeun Kim, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Lab of Medical Physics, Greece
Stathis Konstantinidis, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Antonio Lanatà, University of Florence, Italy
Mikel Larrea, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Barbara Leporini, ISTI - CNR, Italy
Christine Lisetti, Florida International University, United States
Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Amy Loutfi, Örebro University, Sweden
Jin Luo, University of west London, United Kingdom
Heikki Lyytinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Benoit Macq, Independent Researcher, Belgium
Andrea Mangiatordi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Giuseppe Mangioni, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Elvis Mazzoni, University of Bologna, Italy
Kathleen F. McCoy, University of Delaware, United States
Hamid McHeick, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada
René Meier, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Iosif Mporas, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Iain Murray, Curtin University, Australia
Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Paris Descartes University, France
Isao Nakajima, Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan
Amit A. Nanavati, IBM Research, India
Yvonne O'Connor, University College Cork, Ireland
Marko Perisa, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Croatia
Zainab Pirani, Independent Researcher, India
Marco Porta, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Amon Rapp, University of Torino, Italy
Ulrich Reimer, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Paolo Remagnino, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Pertti Saariluoma, Jyväskylä University, Finland
Sreela Sasi, Gannon University, United States
Andreas Schrader, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
Oh-Soon Shin, Soongsil University, Korea, Republic of
Jitae Shin, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of
Telmo Silva, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Josep Silva, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Åsa Smedberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jeffrey Soar, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Susanna Spinsante, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy
Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Taro Sugihara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Andrew Targowski, Western Michigan University, United States
Victoria Torres, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Marilyn M. Tremaine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, University of Twente, Netherlands
Elena Villalba, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Andrea Vitaletti, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Meng E. Wong, Education National Institute of Singapore, Singapore
George Xylomenos, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
Satoshi Yamane, Kanazawa University, Japan
Evi Zouganeli, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

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