Call for papers

PervaSense09

Situation Recognition and Medical Data Analysis in Pervasive Health Environments

March 31st - London (UK)

1. Theme
Pervasive systems in healthcare have reached a high degree of maturity from a technical point of view. However, the interpretation of large amounts of medical sensor data with regard to a person's individual situation still remains a great challenge to the research
community. Advanced medical data analysis is a prerequisite for providing individualized health services in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living environments. Situation recognition, in turn, is a key factor for individualization and adaptivity. In addition, the
recognition of characteristic activities is the foundation for individual behavior monitoring and the autonomous detection of critical long-term deviations. Furthermore, meaningful data interpretation is largely impossible without sound context knowledge. This holds true not only for medical emergency situations, but also for longitudinal analysis of sensor data in general, and physiologic data in particular. Additionally, social integration of Pervasive Health systems - in terms of timeliness and selection of appropriate means of communication - may only be achieved if services areindividualized and adapted. The aim of this workshop is to attract the presentation of top research in the area of situation recognition (detection of Activities of Daily Living (ADL, iADL), context-aware situation recognition) and medical data analysis (vital data analysis, short- and long-term deviations from normal behavior or state of health, decision support) in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living environments. This workshop touches both technological aspects such as data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments and decision support algorithms, as well as social implications and acceptance of these technologies. Furthermore, real-life applications of situation recognition in home monitoring and clinical environments, e.g., for ndividualized feedback systems, are covered.

2. Topics
This workshop encourages submissions that consider, but are not limited to,
- technical concepts and/or algorithms for situation and context recognition
- technical concepts and/or algorithms for behavior monitoring
- concepts, applications, and/or prototypes for medical data interpretation
- data fusion in Pervasive Health environments
- approaches or applications of data mining for sensor data in Pervasive Health environments
- approaches for modeling context knowledge (user-/environment-oriented)

3. Publication
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings CD of the main conference. In addition, all papers will be published and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

4. Submission
Please refer to the Pervasive Health 2009 conference website to retrieve the author's kit (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/authorskitieee.shtml), including templates and detailed instructions. Please submit your paper to the workshop chairs: Michael.Marschollek@plri.de and Holger.Storf@iese.fraunhofer.de

5. Important dates
Paper submission: 10 February 2009
Notification to authors: 20 February 2009
Camera ready: 27 February 2009
Workshop date: 31 March 2009