E-Health 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: 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 Symposium and Workshop Proposals: 22nd European Congress of Psychiatry

March 1-4, 2014 Munich, Germany

Submission Deadline: 28 May 2013

The 22nd European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA 2014) taking place in Munich, Germany, will be a major meeting of international psychiatrists dedicated to promoting European psychiatry and to improving mental health around the globe. Guided by the motto, "European Psychiatry Focusing on Body and Mind”, EPA 2014 is Europe’s leading platform devoted to facilitating a robust exchange of ideas, reflection and collaboration of expertise in the field of psychiatry and its related disciplines.

With active members in as many as 75 countries as well as 33 national psychiatric associations, the European Psychiatric Association is the main association representing psychiatry in Europe. Its mission is to improve psychiatry and mental health care in Europe. EPA members include leading experts in numerous fields, covered by 20 scientific Sections. EPA’s activities address the interests of psychiatrists in academia, research and practice throughout all stages of career development.

EPA 2014 CONGRESS SECRETARIAT CO KENES INTERNATIONAL

1-3, Rue de Chantepoulet
PO Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 0488
Fax: +41 22 906 9140
E-mail: epa@kenes.com

Call for Papers: First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management 

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

Paper Submission deadline: September 23, 2013

ICT-DM’2014 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research. The conference topics are (but not limited to):

Communication systems for disaster management

Infrastructures, technologies and services for distributed crisis management teams and organizations

Mobile and wireless communication networks

Hastily formed networks (MANETs, Mesh, VANETs, Sensor, …)

Opportunistic communications

Multi-platform and multi-sensor data collection

Infrastructure protection and security

Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

Coordination and collaboration technologies and systems for disaster management

Collaborative information systems architectures, frameworks, technologies

Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and limited resources

Service Oriented Architectures for collaboration

Ontology approaches

Contextual and situation-based collaboration

Security and privacy concerns in information sharing

Cloud computing for disaster management

Pervasive and mobile computing

Social media and networks for participation and collaboration

Modeling and simulation of collaboration

Data/information management and analysis for disaster management

Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data

Human-system interactive information extraction

Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery

Context-awareness information analysis and extraction

Data mining from multiple information and huge sources

Mining and making decisions on time-evolving and uncertain data

Crowd sourcing

Trust and information credibility in social networks

Damage and loss assessment

Post disaster needs assessment

Geo-Information technologies for disaster management

Geospatial information technology and geo-collaboration

Situation awareness

Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Integration of data: building information models (BIM) and GIS

Standardization developments (models, icons, symbols)

Visualization and visual analytics

Evacuation and rescue geo-planning

Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management

Preparation and mitigation for managing disasters

Prediction and early warning

Remote sensing

Risk assessment, modeling and simulation tools for crisis situations

Healthcare crisis information systems

Multimedia-based communication skills for citizens and civil servants

E-government and population education

Practices for risk reduction and rapid response in developing countries

ICT in emergency planning and civil protection

Case studies, particular incidents and learned lessons

Benchmark and case studies in e-governance for disaster management

Case studies of the use of social media and networks

Innovative uses of technologies adapted to the readiness 

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

Call for Papers: 10th Global Conference--Making Sense of Dying and Death

Thursday 7th November 2013 – Saturday 9th November 2013 Athens, Greece

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past three decades, scholarship in thanatology has increased dramatically. This particular conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore, analyze, and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about “a good death” and norms that seek to achieve it, culture also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.

Given the location of this year’s conference, a central theme in our proceedings (augmenting those listed below) will involve tracing the on-going and profound shift in contemporary attitudes toward death. In ancient Greece, for example, citizens learned about death and dying through intimate, hands-on experiences. Indeed, the same was true for most people throughout the world until the mid-20th century. Today, many people around the world maintain an increasingly passive role in caring for the dying, and supporting those who grieve a loss. Given that death, serving the dying, and caring for the bereaved has always been such an essential and unavoidable feature of life in traditional societies, a key emphasis in this year’s conference will involve an exploration of the connections between contemporary technologies, social media hubs, and modern health care delivery systems and the ways they impact current end-of-life issues and decisions, including the experience of bereavement and grief. This conference welcomes submissions that specifically assess how these factors are altering our contemporary attitudes toward death, and how patients, staff, and survivors intersect amidst newly emerging care settings and sites of memorialization.

We also welcome submissions that produce conversations engaging historical, ethnographic, normative, literary, anthropological, philosophical, artistic, political or other terms that elaborate a relationship between death and culture.

Papers, reports, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:

1: Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions

Modern Health Care Delivery Systems and Care for the Dying

Palliative Care

Hospice

Elder Care/Ageing in Place Models

Trauma and Emergency Care

Nursing Homes/Skilled Facilities/Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs)/Assisted Living

Clinical Competencies in Pain Management and Symptom Control

Measurements, Incentives, Regulatory Statutes, and Recommendations

Continuity of Care Across Treatment Settings

Interdisciplinary Care

2: The Caregiver-Patient Relationship

Caregiver’s (Physician’s?) Obligations and Virtues

Medical Paternalism and Respect for the Patient, Autonomy

Truth-Telling

Informed Consent

Medicine in the West for a Multicultural Society

Contested Therapies Within the Physician-Patient Relationship

Conflicts of Interest; Problems of Conscience

Caregiver Stress/Caregiver Burnout/Compassion Fatigue

Being With Someone Who Is Dying

Assessment Challenges/Barriers

3: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions

Defining Death

Organ Transplantation and Organ Donation

The Interplay of Ethical Meta-Principles at the End of Life

Nonmaleficence

Beneficence

Autonomy

Death Anxiety

Choosing Death

Advance Directives/Advance Planning/Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLST)/Do Not Resuscitate

Considering End-of-Life Issues and Decisions and Legislation

4: Relationships Between Death and Culture:

internet/social media

music

literature

film

broadcast media

religious broadcasting

journalism

athletics

comic books

novels / poetry / short story

television

radio

print media

technology

popular art / architecture

sacred vs. profane space

advertising

consumerism

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 14th June 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th September 2013

What to Send

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: DD10 Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Nate Hinerman

Rob Fisher: dd10@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Making Sense Of: series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Probing the Boundaries programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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 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