ICOST 2011
9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
20-22 June 2011, Montréal, Canada.
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Topics of interest
ICOST 2011 is accepting original research papers. Topics of interest included, but are not limited to:
Smart Home & Village:
- Intelligent Environments with emphasis on Smart Homes.
- Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence.
- Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing.
- Modeling of User, Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments.
- Activity recognition in smart environment.
- Digital Life Scenario & Life Style Engineering.
- Platforms, Middleware and Software Architectures for Intelligent Environments
- Sensing and actuating systems.
- Home Networks and Residential Gateways.
- User Acceptance & Evaluation of Smart Environments.
- User Interface and Universal Design.
- Universal Design for Smart Environments & Village.
- Privacy and Security Issues in Smart environments & Villages.
- Applications and services in Ambient Systems for smart Environments (homes, hospitals, schools & classrooms, etc.).
Health Telematics & Healthcare Technology:
- Personal Medical Data Collection and Processing (Health Vaults).
- Home Health Monitoring and Intervention.
- Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
- Middleware Support for Smart Environments and Health Telematic Services
- Real World Deployments and Experimentations in Smart Houses, Hospitals & Living communities.
- User Perspectives on Health Telematics.
- Technology for Holistic Health and Independence.
- U-Health for Smart Global Village.
- Wireless body area network (WBAN) & Integrated Micro/Nano Systems
Wellbeing, Aging Friendly & Enabling Technology:
- Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision, Hearing, Cognitive and Communication Impairments.
- Assistive and Rehabilative Robotics.
- Smart Wheelchairs.
- User Perspectives on Smart Environment Technologies.
- Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life and health for seniors and their Caregivers.
- Gerontechnology, Social Science and Health Care.
- Universal Design Technology for Active Aging.
- Philosophy & Foundation for Age-Friendly Care.
- Enabling Homes for Next Generation.
Medical Health Telematics & Healthcare Technology:
- Multi-Agent-Based U-Healthcare & Monitoring for Patient Care Management.
- U-Healthcare for Medical & Clinical Information Management.
- U-Healthcare for ICU & Emergency Patient Care.
- U-Healthcare for Point-Of-Care & Management System.