Conference Description:

PervasiveHealth is a premier international forum with specific focus on technologies and human factors related to the use of ubiquitous computing in healthcare and for wellbeing. We aim to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures.

We welcome contributions from the following fields:
*Sensing/Actuating Technologies and Pervasive Computing*
*Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions*
*Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) *
*Hardware and Software Infrastructures*


All accepted and presented papers will be published by ACM and made available through ACM Digital Library. PervasiveHealth proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including EI Elsevier Engineering Index, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
Authors of selected best accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: http://eai.eu/transaction/pervasive-heal th-and-technology

Topics: *Understanding Users: - Identifying and addressing stakeholder needs ; Usability and acceptability ; Barriers and enablers to adoption ; Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion ; Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services ; Patient and caregiver empowerment ; Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements ; Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations ; Digital interventions and health behavior change*;
*Applications: - Autonomous systems to support independent living ; Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies ; Telemedicine and mHealth solutions ; Chronic disease and health risk management applications ; Health/Wellbeing promotion and disease prevention ; Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring ; Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients ; Smart homes and hospitals ; Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data ; Wellbeing and lifestyle support ; Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairments ; Systems to support caregivers*;
*Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: - Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data ; Activity recognition and fall detection ; User modelling and personalization ; Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environments ; Sensor-based decision support systems ; Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors ; Wearable and implantable sensor integration ; Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments ; Data mining of medical patient records ; Software architectures ; Electronic Health Records*;
*Pervasive Healthcare Management: - Challenges surrounding data quality ; Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare ; Business cases and cost issues ; Security and privacy issues ; Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare ; Legal and regulatory issues ; Staffing and resource management*