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.