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Subject:    [Tccc] CFP ICOST'2006 - 4th Int Conf on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
From:       Jadwiga Indulska <jaga () itee ! uq ! edu ! au>
Date:       2005-10-24 9:53:21
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.60.0510241946020.18333 () mango ! itee ! uq ! edu ! au
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Call for Papers

4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
ICOST2006 -  June 26-28, 2006 - Belfast, UK
Organiser: Faculty of Engineering,  University of Ulster


Important Dates:

   Papers submission:   January 20, 2006
   Author notification:    March 3, 2006
   Camera-ready copy: April 3, 2006


Conference Venue:

ICOST2006 will be held at the Culloden Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
After three successful editions held in France (2003), Singapore (2004), and 
Canada (2005), ICOST2006 aims to continue to develop an active research 
community dedicated to explore how Smart Homes and Health Telematics can foster 
independent living and offer an enhanced quality of life for elderly and 
disabled people.
A Smart Home can be considered to be an augmented environment with the ability 
to consolidate embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal 
sensors to offer people unprecedented levels of access to information and 
assistance from computer technology.  Coupled with paradigm, Health Telematics 
makes the most of networks and telecommunications to provide, within the home 
environment,  health services, expertise and information and hence radically 
transform the way health-related services are conceived and delivered.  We 
believe that in the future ageing and disabled people will use smart assistive 
technology to perform daily living activities, socialize, and enjoy 
entertainment and leisure activities.
Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators 
are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. Current advances in such enabling 
technologies coupled with evolving care paradigms allow us to foresee novel 
applications and services for improving the quality of life for elderly and 
disabled people both inside and outside of their homes. The conference will 
present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of Smart 
Homes, Health Telematics, and enabling technologies. Technical topics of 
interest include, but are not limited to:

o Intelligent Environments / Smart Homes
o Medical Data Collection and Processing
o Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence
o Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments
o Vision / Hearing / Cognitive Devices
o Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
o Personal Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs
o Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing
o Home Networks / Residential Gateways
o Wearable Sensors / Home Health Monitoring
o Social / Privacy / Security Issues
o Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematic Services

Each year, ICOST has a specific flavour. ICOST2003 focused on usability. The 
theme was "Independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly 
people".  The theme for ICOST2004 was "Towards a Human-Friendly Assistive 
Environment" and for ICOST2005 was "From Smart Homes to Smart Care".  This year 
the conference has the theme "Smart Homes and Beyond". This focuses on 
promoting personal autonomy and extending the quality of life.  Papers or 
special sessions addressing the following topics are especially encouraged:

o Inclusive smart home services
o Smart services inside and outside of the home
o Situation awareness
o Location-based services
o Mobility of service delivery

Submission of Papers: There will be a combination of presentations including 
scientific papers, posters, exhibits and technology demonstrations. Prospective 
authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas 
of interest for this conference.  The initial submission for evaluation should 
be in the form of a 4-8 page paper outline.  Authors are strongly recommended 
to submit the full 8-page English language version. IOS Press will publish the 
proceedings as a volume of the Assistive Technology Research Series therefore 
their paper publication format (www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html) 
should be used for submission.


Conference Web Page:  http://www.icost2006.ulster.ac.uk/

Conference Organisation Email: info@icost2006.ac.uk


Chair:   Chris Nugent
  Faculty of Engineering
  University of Ulster (UK)

Co-Chairs: Norman Black
  University of Ulster (UK)

  Juan Augusto
  Faculty of Engineering
  University of Ulster (UK)

Scientific Committee:

Zeugnam Bien, (Chair), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
(South Korea)

Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, University of Putra Malaysia (Malaysia)
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington (USA)
Sajal Das, University of Texas at  Arlington (USA)
Simon Dobson, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Sylvain Giroux, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Sumi Helal, University of Florida (USA)
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland (Australia)
Jay Lundell, Proactive Health Lab. - Intel (USA)
Mounir Mokhtari, GET/INT - INSERM (France)
Jose Piquer, University of Chile (Chile)
Daqing Zang, Institute for Infocomm Res. (Singapore)
Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical U. (China)


Local Organising Committee:

Maurice Mulvenna (Chair)

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