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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Adaptive Treatments and Therapies
(WATT 2015)
Satellite event to 9th International Conference on
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
20th May, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~watt2015/
**** 20th March 2015: Extended deadline for submission of workshop
papers ****
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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Pervasive health strategies have now penetrated many areas of health
including global and public health, rehabilitation, mental health,
psychology, medical training, nutrition, age related diseases or
diabetes among many others. Traditional forms of training, policy
planning, diagnosis, prevention and treatment have been challenged by
this highly flexible and customizable omnipresent technology forcing a
quick evolution and reassessment of well established principles in many
fields of medicine and health care. Many pervasive solutions to health
rely on sending patient data to the expert clinicians which in turn
respond to the alarms received, through the same or distinct
communication channel, but yet fail to make the pervasive solution
intelligent enough to reduce the demand of expert time and availability.
Arguably, one of the keys to the success of the ubiquitous paradigm to
deliver health to the population shall be the ability for dynamically
customize treatment and therapies to the changing patient needs whilst
still guaranteeing compliance with treatment and therapy demands. This
dynamic customization or adaptive behaviour exhibited by the treatment
is ultimately responsible for the pervasive solution to reduce
exhaustive expert supervision; a critical advantage to reduce health
delivery costs, permit out-ward continuous supervision, motivate
patients through personalized care, and achieve an anytime health
assistance. Adaptive treatments and therapies (ATTs) are in fact a
necessary step to make pervasive health a democratic form of health care
delivery; available to anyone, any where, and critically any time.
Common to all of these intelligent ATTs solutions is a decision-making
engine Manifestation of this engine comes in many flavours; from naïve
prefixed thresholds to sophisticated artificial intelligence approaches,
from solutions only relying on observable metrics to elaborated
algorithms inferring affective and cognitive states of the patient, from
those offering a deterministic decision over a certain scenario to those
affording probabilistic advice intelligently managing uncertainty and
being context aware. Yet, despite all the latest advancements, ATTs are
still far from fulfilling their potential of making pervasive health
virtually autonomous with minimal human expert intervention.
The topic is deceivingly vast and consequently we are seeking to attract
a multidisciplinary audience with special focus on the computational
aspects of the adaptive solution. The workshop is organised aiming to
address and hopefully answer some of the following questions:
What is it that is delaying the final explosion of ATTs to reach real
ubiquity (anyone, any time, any where) for health care and medical
training? What are the main avenues that research in this field should
take to accelerate translation to the health care community and society?
Are we putting too much effort in the out-hospital technology that we
are forgetting about the basic medical necessities thus preventing wider
acceptance? What design implications put adaptive treatment and
therapies on pervasive technologies? What are the technological and non
technological present and future limits of ATTs for being ubiquitous in
health care and medicine? Are the current research standards in
ubiquitous health in general, and ubiquitous ATTs in particular,
depreciated to embolden real breakthroughs (e.g. low quality studies,
marginal scientific increments, overemphasizing and favouring
experimental over analytical grounds, etc)?
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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+ Prof. Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo, Canada):
Talk title: Affective Reasoning and Cognitive Assistive Technologies
For abstract please check the workshop website.
+ Prof. Philip J. Morrow (University of Ulster, UK)
Talk title: Gamification Approaches to Adaptive and Personalised
Rehabilitation Therapies
For abstract please check the workshop website.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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ATTs are a critical element for the success of pervasive health. It is a
multidisciplinary field where expertise on biomedicine, nursing,
psychology, public policy and administration, education, engineering in
several disciplines and computing converge. Contributions are welcomed
in the following or related topics:
+ Clinical
++ Neural substrates and mechanisms supporting (or rejecting) the
usefulness of ATTs in health care
++ Psychological elements involved in motivation, adherence to therapy,
engagement of the social circle.
++ Strategies to boost dose and intensity of treatments
++ Strategies for monitoring of non-observable mind and affective state
of the patient.
+ Computational
++ Artificial Intelligence applied to health care
++ Decision-theoretic models for treatment adaptation
++ Design factors for therapy adaptation in health
++ Real time efficient monitoring of progress and status of patients and
health care professionals
++ Intelligent feedback and assistance
++ Theoretical guarantees and formal analysis are specially welcomed
+ Engineering
++ Ecological validity of adaptive technologies in health
++ Supporting adaptive hardware development
++ Different aspects of ubiquitous virtual environments in health;
software architecture, databases and user profiling, distributed
monitoring, treatment, assessment, unsupervised training, etc
+ Public policy and administration
++ ATTs on global and public health
++ Privacy, liability and economic aspects of pervasive technologies in
health
++ Acceptance and retention of the pervasive adaptive technologies in
health care
++ Educational aspects of adaptive training in health
IMPORTANT DATES
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* 6th February 2014: Call for papers
* 15th March 2015: Deadline for submission of workshop papers
* 1st April 2015: Notification of acceptance
* 10th April 2015: Camera-ready papers
* 20th May 2015: Workshop
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Submission period is now open. To submit your paper, please go to:
http://confy.eai.eu/#conftrack-overview/conf/52060/cid/51991
Contributions will be accepted in two forms:
* Extended abstracts: Up to 2 pages
* Full length articles: Up to 10 pages
All submissions of the workshop papers will be done via “confy”
(www.confy.eai.eu). All accepted workshop papers shall follow the PH2015
submission templates (IEEE, see main PH website for details
http://pervasivehealth.org/2015/show/home). All accepted workshop papers
will be included in the conference proceedings and published in the IEEE
Library. They will also be indexed in: Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings, SCOPUS, DBLP, and ScienceDirect.
Submission of previously published work is possible, but the authors are
required to mention this explicitly, and will not be included into the
workshop proceedings. Authors are welcome to present their novel work
and choose to opt out of the workshop proceedings in case they have
alternative publication plans.
ORGANISING COMITTEE
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Workshop Co-chairs
Prof. Luis Enrique Sucar, INAOE, Mexico
Dr. Felipe Orihuela-Espina, INAOE, Mexico
Details of the programme comittee may be found in the workshop website.
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