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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. TELEMEDICINE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
3. DIGITAL HEALTH


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
  • Health Geography, Cultural Issues
  • Human Communication and Behavioural Studies of Senior Citizens
  • Management of Health Services
  • Psychological Dimension of Aging Population
  • Self-Fulfilment and Social Participation
  • Social Inclusion
  • Sociocultural Dimension of Aging Population
  • Studies of People with Disabilities

AREA 2: 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
  • Privacy and 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

AREA 3: DIGITAL HEALTH


  • Case Studies in eHealth
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Data and Real-Time Analytics
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Diagnostic Support
  • eHealth and Education
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Emergency and Alerts Handling
  • 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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICT4AWE 2025 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.

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: 6 - 8 April, 2025

Paper Submission: November 18, 2024 (expired)
Authors Notification:
January 6, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 23, 2025

Paper Submission: January 3, 2025 (extended)
Authors Notification:
January 30, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 12, 2025

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: November 27, 2024 (expired)
Paper Submission: January 30, 2025
Authors Notification: February 13, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: February 21, 2025

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: November 27, 2024 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: February 18, 2025

Demos
Demo Proposal: February 18, 2025

Panels
Panel Proposal: February 18, 2025

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: January 30, 2025
Authors Notification: February 13, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: February 21, 2025

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

The conference will take place at the Vila Galé Porto hotel which is located in the beautiful and historical city of Porto in Portugal. Porto is considered to be one of the most beautiful historical towns in Portugal, with its remarkable architectural heritage shaped by history.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Maurice MulvennaUniversity of Ulster, United Kingdom

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Effie Lai-Chong LawDurham University, United Kingdom
María Dolores Lozano PerezComputer Science Department, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Bessam Abdulrazak, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
José Afonso, University of Minho, Portugal
Anurag Agrawal, CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Center for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung, India
Aitor Almeida, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Flora Amato, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Farid Amirouche, University of illinois at Chicago, United States
Athanasios Anastasiou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Luis E Anido-Rifon, University of Vigo, Spain
Juan Carlos Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & Leeds Institute of Medical Education, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Cristian Barrué, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelonatech, Spain
Rémi Bastide, University of Toulous, France
Radhakrishna Bhat, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
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
Andreu Català Mallofré, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
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
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Sisira Edirippulige, The University of Queensland, Australia
Virginie Felizardo, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, ITACA -TSB Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Joseph Finkelstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Jesús Fontecha, Universidad de Castillla-La Mancha, Spain
David Luigi Fuschi, BRIDGING Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom
Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Candace Gibson, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Raffaele Gravina, University della Calabria, Italy
Amir Hajjam El Hassani, Imagery, France
Jorge Henriques, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Maria Teresa Herdeiro, Institute of Biomedicine - iBiMED, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal., Portugal
Jun Hu, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Dan Istrate, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Ivan Evgeniev Ivanov, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria
Eila Järvenpää, Aalto University, Finland
Emil Jovanov, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Mira Kartiwi, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Khaksar, La Trobe University, Australia
Michel Klein, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stathis Konstantinidis, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Yiannis Koumpouros, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Paul Krause, University of Surrey , United Kingdom
Aleksandra Labus, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Antonio Lanatà, University of Florence, Italy
Mikel Larrea, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Natasha Layton, Swinburne University, Australia
Diego Liberati, Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche @ Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Thurmon Lockhart, Independent Researcher, United States
Guillermo Lopez Campos, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Emilio Luque, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Heikki Lyytinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Marco Manso, PARTICLE SUMMARY, Portugal
Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Goran Martinovic, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Elvis Mazzoni, University of Bologna, Italy
Vasileios Megalooikonomou, University of Patras, Greece
René Meier, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Pedro Miguel Moreira, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Thomas Moser, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Aniello Murano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Hammadi Nait-Charif, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Andrzej Obuchowicz, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland
Abayomi Otebolaku, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Shahram Payandeh, Experimental Robotics and Graphics Laboratory, Canada
Carlos Eduardo Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil
Thinagaran Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Ivan Miguel Pires, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Porta, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Arsénio Reis, INESC TEC and UTAD, Portugal
Reinhard Riedl, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Eric Rojas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Grace Marcon Dal Sasso, Independent Researcher, Brazil
Guenter Schreier, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, United States
Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Telmo Silva, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Åsa Smedberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Susanna Spinsante, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy
Taro Sugihara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Adel Taweel, Birzeit University, Palestine (State of)
Harold Thimbleby, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Mamello Thinyane, University of South Australia, Australia
Janet Wesson, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Meng Ee Wong, Education National Institute of Singapore, Singapore
George Xylomenos, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, United States
Zeljko Zilic, McGill University, Canada
Evi Zouganeli, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

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