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ICT4AWE 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. AGEING WELL – SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE
2. DIGITAL HEALTH
3. TELEMEDICINE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING


AREA 1: AGEING WELL – SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE


  • Aging Population – the Facts, Statistics, the Future
  • Autonomy and Active Aging
  • Dignity and Equal Opportunities of Senior Citizens
  • Human Communication and Behavioural Studies of Senior Citizens
  • Management of Health Services
  • Psychological Dimension of Aging Population
  • Social Inclusion
  • Ageing and Functional Diversity

AREA 2: DIGITAL HEALTH


  • Case Studies in eHealth
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Data and Real-Time Analytics
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Diagnostic Support
  • eHealth and Education
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Health Information Systems
  • Home Care Monitoring Systems
  • Interoperability and System Integration
  • Medical Data Science Technologies
  • Digital Collaboration Technologies
  • Mobile Health Monitoring
  • Open Data and Health Information
  • Personalised Medicine
  • Computer Vision and Healthcare Robotics
  • Gamification in Digital Health
  • Digital Assistants
  • ICT for Cognitive Stimulation
  • Assistive Technologies
  • Intelligent Healthcare Systems
  • Chatbots
  • Digital Mental Health

AREA 3: TELEMEDICINE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING


  • Acceptance of Ambient Technology
  • Ambient Technology for Daily Living
  • Ambient Technology for Health, Emergency and Care
  • Inclusive Design
  • Internet of Things and Smart Devices for Independent Living
  • Ethical Issues
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Smart Environments and Housing
  • Software and Applications for Independent Living
  • Systems Usability
  • Wearable Technologies
  • Web and Mobile Interaction
  • Systems to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICT4AWE 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as 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.

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.

When submitting a complete paper please note that 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 should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

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 complete 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).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 20 - 22 May, 2026

Paper Submission: January 5, 2026
Authors Notification: March 3, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: March 17, 2026

Paper Submission: February 17, 2026
Authors Notification: March 24, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 6, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: January 20, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: January 20, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: April 10, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: April 10, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: April 10, 2026

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

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

María Dolores Lozano Perez, Computer Science Department, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

José Afonso, University of Minho, Portugal
Aitor Almeida, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Athanasios Anastasiou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Juan Carlos Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Nico Biagi, Henley Business School, United Kingdom
Antonis Billis, Lab of Medical Physics & Digital Innovation, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Laurent Billonnet, Xlim Institute - University of Limoges, France
Renato Bulcão-Neto, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy
Mario Ciampi, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
José Eurico de Vasconcelos Filho, Fundacao de Ciencia Tecnologia e Inovacao de Fortaleza - CITINOVA, Brazil
Jesús Fontecha, Universidad de Castillla-La Mancha, Spain
David Luigi Fuschi, BRIDGING Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom
Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Emil Jovanov, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Paul Krause, University of Surrey , United Kingdom
Aleksandra Labus, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Mikel Larrea, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Natasha Layton, Swinburne University, Australia
Marco Manso, PARTICLE SUMMARY, Portugal
Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
René Meier, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Thomas Moser, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland
Abayomi Otebolaku, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Shahram Payandeh, Experimental Robotics and Graphics Laboratory, Canada
Marco Porta, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Eric Rojas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, United States
Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Telmo Silva, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Zeljko Zilic, McGill University, Canada
Evi Zouganeli, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

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