Call for papers



Call for papers

ICOST2007: 5th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics

Nara Prefectural New Public Hall, Nara, Japan

21-23 June, 2007

Organizers: NICT, Japan


 A Smart Home can be considered to be an augmented environment with the ability to consolidate embedded computers, information appliances, micro/nano systems, and multi-modal sensors to offer people unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from information and communication technology. 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, more intelligent 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 ageing 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 emerging enabling technologies. Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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

SPECIFIC TOPICS

 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". ICOST2005 theme was "From Smart Homes to Smart Care" and ICOST2006 theme was "Smart Homes and Beyond". ICOST2007 will focus on Sustainable Society with Quality of Life Enhancement with the theme "Pervasive Computing Perspectives for Quality of Life Enhancement". This focuses on promoting pervasive computing in extending the quality of life.


PAPER SUBMISSION

 Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in PDF format. The initial submission for evaluation should be in the form of a 4-8 page paper in English and the upper limitation of file size for each paper is 3.0MB. The papers accepted will be assigned to oral sessions or poster sessions. The authors can select session preference as their option in the submission web site. Papers must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. Reviewing will be double-blind. Papers should not include author names or institutions.


PROCEEDINGS

 Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by Springer as the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.


IMPORTANT DATES

  • Papers submission: 29 January, 2007 (Closed)
  • Notification of acceptance: 14 March, 2007
  • Camera-ready copy: 29 March, 2007
  • Conference: 21-23 June, 2007

VENUE

Nara Prefectural New Public Hall, Nara, Japan (http://www.pref.nara.jp/koukaido-e/)