Ubiquitous Healthcare

Healthcare is one of the topics where ubiquitous computing technologies promise significant improvements for the daily lives of many people. Personalised, adaptive, and everywhere-everytime monitoring and assistance can create new or extend current possibilities for efficient and patient-friendly healthcare. These new options have not yet been fully explored, and prototypes often lack field trials and user studies.

This special track seeks participation from both healthcare research and ubiquitous computing, to foster collaboration and get input from both the enabling technologies and the requirements for how they may be used.

Topics

We solicit contributions to theoretical and practical aspects of novel technological advances that may contribute to ubiquitous healthcare, requirements for practical use within healthcare, and topics specific to this area.

Special track topics include, but are not limited to:

• Wearable healthcare and monitoring devices
• Home and environmental healthcare and monitoring devices
• Usability of ubiquitous healthcare devices for different groups(such as children, elderly people, or people with limited abilities)
• Data management and access of health records by patients
• Assisted living utilising ubiquitous computing devices and applications
• Security, privacy, and trust issues in ubiquitous healthcare
• Legal, social, and ethical aspects of ubiquitous healthcare
• Clinical applications, field trials, and user studies
• Enabling technologies for ubiquitous healthcare (sensor networks, ad hoc networks, appropriate input/output modalities, location tracking, sensing, sensor data analysis and aggregation, context awareness)

Enabling technologies for ubiquitous healthcare (sensor networks, ad hoc networks, appropriate input/output modalities, location tracking, sensing, sensor data analysis and aggregation, context awareness)

Track Co-Chairs

Dr. Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK
Email: rene@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Prof. Zhenming Zhu, ICT, China
Email: zmzhu@ict.ac.cn

Track Paper Submission

ICPCA2008 Special Track on Ubiquitous Health Care (UbiCare@ICPCA)

Important Dates

April 15, 2008
April 30, 2008
May 18, 2008 Full paper submission due
June 08, 2008 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2008 Final papers due