The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health aims to be a meeting point for those that study and apply information and communication technologies for improving the quality of life of the elderly and for helping people stay healthy, independent and active at work or in their community along their whole life. ICT4AWE facilitates the exchange of information and dissemination of best practices, innovation and technical improvements in the fields of age-related health care, education, social coordination and ambient assisted living. From e-Health to intelligent systems, and ICT devices, this will be a point of interest for all those that work in research and development and in companies involved in promoting the well-being of aged people, by providing room for industrial presentations, demos and project descriptions.

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. AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING
2. TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH
3. MONITORING, ACCESSIBILITY AND USER INTERFACES
4. ROBOTICS AND DEVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
5. HCI FOR AGEING POPULATIONS

AREA 1: AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING

    Ambient Intelligence
    Smart Environments and Housing
    Ubiquitous Computing
    Multi-modal Interaction
    Mobile Systems for AAL
    Agent-based Interfaces
    Knowledge Systems and Ontologies
    Context Awareness and Adaptation
    Collaboration Systems for AAL
    Case Studies for AAL
    Vital Signs and Wireless Body Networks
    Cognitive Stimulation

AREA 2: TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH

    Electronic Health Records
    Home Care Monitoring Systems
    Mobile Collaboration Technologies
    e-Health and Education
    Interoperability
    Security and Privacy in e-Health
    Data Analytics and Health
    Pervasive Data Management Architectures
    Decision Support Systems
    Tele-Rehabilitation
    Management of Telemedicine
    Systems to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles
    Case Studies in e-Health
    Business Models for Telemedicine and e-Health
    Diagnostic Support
    Open Data and Health Information

AREA 3: MONITORING, ACCESSIBILITY AND USER INTERFACES

    Remote Monitoring
    Wireless Technology
    Systems Usability
    Mobile Health Monitoring
    Personalized Interfaces
    Virtual and Augmented Reality
    Speech and Tactile Interfaces
    Assistive Technology and Adaptive Systems
    Accessibility Software
    Pervasive Technologies
    Wearable Technologies
    Motion Detection

AREA 4: ROBOTICS AND DEVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

    Sensor Networks
    Mobile Sensing
    Smart Devices
    Autonomy and Active Ageing
    Robots for Eldercare
    Signal Processing
    Software Development
    Robot Companions
    Walking Assistive Devices
    Service and Social Robotics
    Healthcare Robotics
    Interacting Robots at Home
    Computer Vision

AREA 5: HCI FOR AGEING POPULATIONS

    Socially Dependable Systems
    Intelligent Companions
    Affective Communication
    Inclusive Design
    Graphical User Interfaces
    Web-based Interaction
    Perception Issues
    Training Cognitive Abilities
    Cognitive Games
    Cultural Trends

KEYNOTE LECTURES

ICT4AWE 2016 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.