Assistive Technology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare

September 12-14, 2013 Yokohama, Japan

Paper Submission Deadline: July 19 (Fri.), 2013

Track Categories

Non-intrusive Measurement

Sensors for u-Healthcare

Ambient assisted living & smart homes

Body sensor/area networks

Signal and Data Processing

Wireless/Mobile Healthcare System

Home Healthcare System

Emergency Healthcare System

Telemedicine

Sleep Monitoring & Evaluation

Cardiovascular Informatics

u-Healthcare for The Elderly

Brain Computer Interface

Therapeutic & Rehabilitation Methods

Energy Scavenging Technologies

Informatics for Assistive Technologies

Contact Person

Toshiyo Tamura
E-mail: tamurat@isc.osakac.ac.jp

Call for Papers: The Disability Experience: State of the Arts, Scholarship and Research

October 31st and November 1st, 2013 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Set aside the dates and submit an abstract! The Students for Disability Advocacy, a newly formed student group at the University of Pittsburgh whose mission is to advocate for students with disabilities, will be holding a conference  October 31st and November 1st, 2013 at the University of Pittsburgh William Pitt Union entitled The Disability Experience:  State of the Arts in Research, Scholarship and the Arts. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the arts, scholarship and research concerning the disability experience.  The conference will focus on panel presentations by students with faculty respondents.  A variety of submissions will be accepted from students with and without disabilities at the University of Pittsburgh and around the country. Panel presentations will draw from a variety of disciplines including: Assistive Technology across disability, Health & Wellness (disparities), Employment, Policy and Law, the Arts, Education, History, Philosophy, and English. A faculty-student round-table discussion is the final event of the conference with discourse concerning relationships between faculty and students with disabilities. Limited scholarships for travel may be available and food will be available free at the conference.

Purpose and objectives of the conference:

The aim of this first ever disability studies conference at the University of Pittsburgh is to bring together a wide spectrum of faculty, students, and other individuals – especially those from the University and its communities – whose interests capture the experience of disability and who wish to advance disability-related fields and further their integration into the curricula and in community life.  The conference will:

Invite students to present their field-specific disability-related work from across the curricula of science, the arts and the humanities to an interdisciplinary audience

Promote discourse across disability-related fields in order to integrate disability studies into the curricula

Provide networking opportunities by encouraging and enabling attendees to establish connections with individuals of varying fields

Create dialogue between students and faculty about issues and experiences students with disabilities have and to identify mechanisms for resolution of problems.

Submissions:

Abstract submissions should be no more than 500 words and up to three keywords for the paper.  Submissions must include 1) your name, contact information and discipline  2)  title of your presentation and 3) the panel (e.g. Assistive Technology, Health & Wellness, Employment, Policy and Law, Education, History, Philosophy, or English and the Arts) in which you would like to be included.  There will be three accepted abstracts for each panel.  Papers will be shared with other panelists in mid-September and power points will be due two weeks before the conference.    The authors will be asked to make a 15 minute presentation with 5 minutes for Q and A. If you want to display art or show a film, provide a description as well as space and other requirements.

Please submit abstracts by July 1st to Jonathan Duvall at sorc+disability@pitt.edu. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by August 15, 2013. Direct any questions or inquiries to Jonathan Duvall at sorc+disability@pitt.edu.  Please feel free to share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in participating.

This conference is supported by University of Pittsburgh, Students for Disability Advocacy and other organizations.

Call for Papers: Fourth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility

October, 24-26, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia

Deadlines:

June  20, 2013 : Submission of papers

June  20, 2013 : Poster/demonstration Submission

The Fourth International Conference on ICT & Accessibility is organized by the Research Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication & Electrical engineering (LaTICE), of the University of Tunis in collaboration with The Computing Center EL KHAWARIZMI (CCK), with the  Co-sponsorship of IEEE Tunisian Section  and with the support of:
 
- The Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and  Scientific Research

- The University of Tunis

- The Tunisian association of e-accessibility

- ENSIT

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Accessible mobile environments.

• Mobile apps for people with disabilities.

• Software engineering for accessibility.

• Cloud Computing and Assistive Technology services.

• E-learning and accessibility.

• E-learning tools and environments for people with disabilities.

• Human Computer Interfaces for people with disabilities.

• Usability and Ergonomics.

• Web accessibility.

• End user tools for accessibility.

• Assistive technology.

• Technology design for people with multiple impairments.

• Accessibility and usability.

• E-Aging and Gerontechnology.

• Assistive Technology.

• Design for All.

• ICT for inclusive education.

• Automatic translation of Sign languages.

• Technologies for improving communication with Deaf people.

• Representation and Processing of Sign Languages.

Questions about the Conference should be directed to Program Chair: Prof. Mohamed JEMNI,
E-mail: mohamed.jemni@fst.rnu.tn
Phone : +216 71 602 944 / Fax : +216 71 601 930

Call for Papers: 15th International Conference on Autism, Intellectual Disability & Developmental Disabilities Research to Practice

January 21-23, 2014 Clearwater Beach, Florida

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013

The Council for Exception Children's Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) is hosting the 15th International Conference, which is both research and practitioner-focused.

DADD welcomes the submission of innovative, evidence-based proposals within the following topical areas:

♦ Autism Spectrum Disorder

♦ Multiple Disabilities

♦ Assistive & Adaptive Technology

♦ Paraprofessionals

♦ Collaborative Partnerships

♦ Parental Engagement

♦ Intellectual Disability

♦ Post-Secondary

♦ Mental Health

♦ Transitions

Proposals (submitted in Word) should include the following information:

♦ Presenter name(s), affiliation, contact information (including e-mail)

♦Session title, 50 word abstract, and 300 word summary, three learner outcomes, and information as to how the proposal addresses diversity

♦ Session format–poster session, lecture or panel presentation

Please submit proposals to:

Cindy Perras, Conference Coordinator
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cindy.perras@cogeco.ca
www.daddcec.org

Call for Papers: PhyCS 2014

January 7-9, 2014 Lisbon, Portugal

PhyCS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is opening new boundaries in the field of human-computer interaction into what can be defined as Physiological Computing. PhyCS is the annual meeting of the physiological interaction and computing community, and serves as the main international forum for engineers, computer scientists and health professionals, interested in outstanding research and development that bridges the gap between physiological data handling and human-computer interaction.

PhyCS brings together people interested in creating novel interaction devices, adaptable interfaces, algorithms and tools, through the study, planning, and design of interfaces between people and computers that are supported by multimodal biosignals. We seek contributions that relate synergetic disciplines such as biomedical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, affective computing, accessibility, usability, computer graphics, arts, etc.

Researchers attending PhyCS seek to extend the state-of-the-art by harnessing the power of physiological data to refine the symbiosis between humans and computers in such way that the resulting interactive experiences lead to richer and improved outcomes. This may involve the design of new wearable devices that make physiological data acquisition more pervasive, the design of user interfaces capable of recognizing and adapting to changes in the physiological state of the user, and / or the creation of algorithms to enable robust and seamless control of computational resources using physiological data sources as input.

We call for original submissions that describe novel technologies and applications in this field, and greatly encourage authors to complement their oral and poster communications with demonstrations showing novel physiological computing and interaction concepts or systems.

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. DEVICES

2. METHODOLOGIES AND METHODS

3. HUMAN FACTORS

4. APPLICATIONS

AREA 1: DEVICES

■ Biomedical Devices for Computer Interaction

■ Haptic Devices

■ Brain-Computer Interfaces

■ Health Monitoring Devices

■ Physiology-driven Robotics

■ Wearable Sensors and Systems

■ Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies

AREA 2: METHODOLOGIES AND METHODS

■ Biosignal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing

■ Pattern Recognition

■ Neural Networks 

■ Processing of Multimodal Input

■ Observation, Modeling and Prediction of User Behavior

■ Computer Graphics and Visualization of Physiological Data

■ Video and Image Analysis for Physiological Computing

■ Motion and Tracking

AREA 3: HUMAN FACTORS

■ User Experience

■ Usability

■ Adaptive Interfaces

■ Human Factors in Physiological Computing

■ Learning and Adaptive Control of Action Patterns

■Speech and Voice Data Processing

AREA 4: APPLICATIONS

■ Physiology-driven Computer Interaction

■ Biofeedback Technologies

■ Affective Computing

■ Pervasive Technologies

■ Augmentative Communication

■ Assistive Technologies

■ Interactive Physiological Systems

■ Physiological Computing in Mobile Devices

Important Dates

Conference Date: 7 - 9 January, 2014

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: July 30, 2013

Authors Notification: October 9, 2013

Camera Ready and Registration: October 22, 2013

Position Papers

Paper Submission: September 18, 2013

Authors Notification: October 28, 2013

Camera Ready and Registration: November 12, 2013

Secretariat

PhyCS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Setubal Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: phycs.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.phycs.org

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Papers: GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on: Advancing Neural Engineering Through Big Data

GlobalSIP 2013

1st IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing

December 3-5, 2013 Austin, Texas

Symposium Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013

The past two decades have seen an explosion in Neural Engineering research dedicated to interfacing the nervous system to the external world. Research in this area has been motivated by the promise of treatments for elusive medical conditions ranging from blindness to chronic pain to spinal cord injury, and has been supported by a sustained campaign from a spectrum of federal funding agencies. Overall progress in the field has been limited by the lack of large, comprehensive data resources. The purpose of this symposium is to focus the attention of the research community on a progression of neural engineering research questions and to generate and curate massive data sets to be used in addressing those questions. The existence of massive common data corpora has proven to substantially accelerate research progress. In this symposium, we will explore the community needs for such massive data and discuss models for the funding, development and distribution of these resources.

Submissions of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format are welcome on topics including:

Brain Computer Interfaces

Wearable and Assistive devices

Neurological Sensor Arrays and Transduction

Biocompatible Interface Materials

Bioelectrical Signal Processing

Neuromotor and Neurosensory Modeling

Bioengineering Application of Big Data

Best Practices in Experimental Design

Annotation and Distribution Standards

Benchmarks and Open Source Tools

Paper Submission

Submit papers of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format through the GlobalSIP website at http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/Papers.asp.

Call for Abstracts: BodyNets 2013--8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

September 30–October 2, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BodyNets 2013 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyze, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on body area networks (BANs). We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):

1. Wearable Computing

Ambient intelligence

Pervasive user interface

Context and situation awareness

Augmented reality

Motion detection and activity recognition

2. Embedded Devices and Medical Applications

High-confidence medical devices

Integration of medical devices with healthcare systems

Medical device plug-and-play

Assistive technologies for independent aging

Pervasive health care and patient monitoring

New medical diagnostics and treatments

Ambient assisted living

Virtual hospitals

3. Communications and Networking

Various types of BANs; e.g, in-body, on-body and around-body networks

Signal/information processing and communication models in BANs

BAN architectures and protocols

Power-efficient communications

Wireless energy transfer

Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs

Cloud computing and BANs

Cognitive networks for medical bands

4. Systems and Applications

Sensing and actuation in BANs

Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs

Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments

Design and performance issues

Tools, testbeds and deployment issues

Wireless-to-bio interface/transduction

Standardization

Application domains include, but not limited to, biomedical engineering, computer vision, defense, entertainment (e.g. computer games), human computer interaction, interactive arts, Internet of things, physiological monitoring, prosthetics, robotics, smart garments, sports science, and vehicular networks.

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics, the BodyNets 2013 technical program features a series of special tracks that focus on specific/emerging topics:

Antennas for Body Area Networks (ABAN)

Body Area Networks for Sports Applications and Systems

Body Area Networks with Social Networks (BANSN)

Brain and Body Computing based on Embodied Knowledge (BBC)

Cloud-assisted Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPS)

Energy Harvesting in Body Area Networks (EHBAN)

Human Body Communications (HBC)

Mobile Grid Computing for Smart Health and Well Being (mGrid4SHB)

Motion Detection and Activity Recognition (MDAR)

Nano-scale Communications and Networking (NCN)

Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks (PSTBAN)

Smart Garments (SG)

Smart Health and Big Data (SHBD)

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

Regular papers: Up to 7 pages

Short papers: Up to 4 pages

Poster and demo papers: Up to 1 page

Papers must follow the ACM conference paper format. Please visit http://bodynets.org/2013/show/initial-submission for detailed submission instructions.
Important Dates:

Regular paper submission due: June 1

Short, poster and demo paper submission due: July 1

Notification of acceptance for regular papers: June 30

Notification of acceptance for short, poster and demo papers: July 15

Camera ready due: July 31

Publication:

Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals such as:

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management

ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications

Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal

Call for Papers: 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

5-8 November 2013 San Diego, California

Online 4-Page Paper and 1-Page Abstract Submission: March 1st - June 5th, 2013

Neural engineering is an emerging core discipline, which coalesces neuroscience with engineering. Please join us at:

The 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, which will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina – CA from 5-8 November 2013, just before The Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Members of both the Neuroscience and Engineering Communities are encouraged to attend this highly multidisciplinary meeting. The conference will highlight the emerging engineering innovations in the restoration and enhancement of impaired sensory, motor, and cognitive functions, novel engineering for deepening knowledge of brain function, and advanced design and use of neurotechnologies.

Neural engineering draws expertise from computational neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, electrical engineering, materials engineering, and cell and molecular neuroscience. Through innovations in neurotechnology the community seeks to synergize scientists, engineers, and clinicians toward improved medical therapies.

Contributions are invited in the following area (but not limited to):

Neuroimaging
Brain-Computer and Brain-Machine Interfaces
Neural Computation and Modeling
Neuro-Nanotechnology
Neural Prostheses
Neuro-Robotics
Cognitive Engineering and Science
Deep Brain Stimulation
Rehabilitation Engineering