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Special Session on
Information and Communication Technologies for Frailty Prevention and Monitoring - ICT4FPM 2026

20 - 22 May, 2026 - Benidorm, Spain

Within the 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - ICT4AWE 2026


CO-CHAIRS

Ennio Gambi
Università Politecnica Delle Marche
Italy
www.univpm.it
 
Brief Bio
Ennio Gambi was born in Loreto (Ancona, Italy) in 1961. He received the Electronic Engineering graduate diploma at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in 1986 and the Microwave Engineering master degree in 1989. From 1984 to 1992 he worked with the Azienda di Stato per i Servizi Telefonici, while during 1988 he covered the role of Avionic Engineer as an Official of the Italian Military Air Force. Since 1992 he joined the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, where he is, currently, an Associate Professor. At present his main research interests are in spread spectrum systems, both for communication and radar purposes. In particular, his research is dedicated to the selection of suitable sets of expansion sequences, able to increase the system performance. At the same time, on the basis of a long time interest on source coding, he is working on the evolution of this technique in the field of Ambient Assisted Living, with the aim to propose an integrated solution where the fusion of data provided by different sensor networks allows to offer the desired level of home assistance for disabled or elderly people. He is coauthor of several international papers. Since the Academic Year 1995/96, he is the lecturer for the courses of Telecommunication Systems of the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
Antonio Nocera
Universita Politecnica delle Marche
Italy

 
Michela Raimondi
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Italy

 

SCOPE

This special session explores how Information and Communication Technologies could be employed to measure frailty-related variables. A frailty phenotype can be defined as the manifestation of a set of traits as aging progresses: unintentional weight loss, loss of grip strength, slowness of gait, low physical activity, and exhaustion. Frailty can also be defined as the accumulation of health deficits over time (e.g., cognitive decline, gait abnormalities, loss of autonomy in activities of daily living), leading to a vulnerability in the subject's health status. Researchers are invited to propose novel methods for monitoring one or more variables, symptoms, or deficits related to frailty, aiming at identifying possible gaps in technology-enabled frailty monitoring and the frailty variables that can be reliably measured.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Contactless Sensing for Subjects’ Motion, Activity, and Gait Monitoring
  • Contactless Sensing for Subjects’ Physiological States Monitoring
  • Wearable for Subjects’ Motion, Activity, and Gait Monitoring
  • Wearable for Subjects’ Physiological State Monitoring
  • The Issues of Technology Acceptability and Adherence Among the Elderly and Other Stakeholders

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: March 25, 2026 (expired)
Authors Notification: April 7, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 15, 2026

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gianluca Ciattaglia, UNIVPM, Information Engineering Department, Italy
Libera Lucia Del Giudice, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Maria Gardano, Department of Information Engineering, UNIVERSITA' POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE, Italy
Erica Iammarino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Ilaria Marcantoni, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Linda Senigagliesi, ETIS UMR 8051, CYU, ENSEA, CNRS, Cergy, France
Susanna Spinsante, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

ICT4AWE Special Sessions - ICT4FPM 2026
e-mail: ict4ageingwell.secretariat@insticc.org
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