SPECIAL SESSION ON ADVANCED SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH, WELLNESS AND PERSONAL ASSISTANCE (ASHWPA)"
SPECIAL SESSION SCOPE
This Special Session (SS) aims at discussing recent advances in development of embedded and cyber-physical systems for health care, wellness monitoring and personal assistance for any kind of persons, either suffering from a disease or not. The recent progress in (intelligent) miniaturized sensors and actuators, powerful embedded processors, wireless communications and energy efficient design made feasible and economically justified numerous new systems that are able to not only acquire bio-medical signals, but also to perform complex processing and classifications of bio-medical information, and related decision making, often allowing a remote monitoring or interaction with medical personnel. This enables new or better systems not only in the traditional fields like medicine and surgery, but also in those related to ageing population or to personal well-being. This SS focuses both on the design and implementation methodologies and technologies, as well as, the advanced applications and holistic development of systems from the concept to its actual realisation and validation. Consequently, contributions from both industry and academia are welcome. Considerations of multi -disciplinary aspects implicitly included in the design of such systems are of special interest.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)
- Cyber-physical systems for healthcare, well-being and personal (elderly, disability ...) assistance
- body -area networks, wearables, implantables and pill-size devices
- HWPA applications and internet-of things
- Sports and medicine devices
- Rehabilitation equipment
- System ergonomy and human-machine interfaces
- RT biomedical signal and image processing
- Biomedical instrumentation
- Lab-on-chip
- Neuromorphic chips
- Design, implementation and validation technologies, methods and tools for HPWA systems
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to the Easychair System. Should an unexpected web access problem be encountered, please contact the Program Chair.
Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the manuscript, references included.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission:
April 8th 2016Extended to April 24th - Notification of Acceptance:
May 30th 2016Extended to June13th - Camera-ready Paper Due:
June 27th 2016Extended to July 1st
SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR(S)
F. Leporati (U Pavia, IT)
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- A. Amira (U West of Scotland, UK)
- D. Atienza (EPFL Lausanne, CH)
- S. Autexier (GRC for Artif. Intelligence, D)
- G. Bertolotti (U Pavia, IT)
- A. Campilho (U Porto, PT)
- L. Fanucci (U Pisa, IT)
- H. Ghasemzadeh (Washington State Univ., US)
- L. Józwiak (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL)
- F. Leporati (U Pavia, IT)
- J. Machado da Silva (U Porto, PT)
- J. Madsen (DTU, DK)
- M. Martinez (U Cantabria, ES)
- A. Pawlak (Silesian UT of Poland, PL)
- M. Sawan (Politechnique Montreal, CAN)
- M. Pourhomayour (U California, US)
- O. Romain (ETIS, FR)
- R. Sassi (U Milano, IT)
- F. Soulier (LIRMM, FR)
- S. Vitabile (U Palermo, IT)
