================================================================ CALL FOR PAPER PETRA 2009 - The 2nd International Conference on PEvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Corfu, Greece June 9-13, 2009 www.petrae.org ================================================================ CONFERENCE THEME The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment, or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective. People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes. TOPICS We would like to invite researchers working in the area of healthcare and assisted living to submit their original research findings to the PETRA conference. Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: . Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying pervasive applications in assistive environments . Privacy, security and trust . Social impact of the use of pervasive technologies on the user in pervasive assistive environments . Wearable, ambient and home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring technologies . Mobile and wireless technologies for healthcare information storage, transmission, processing, and feedback . Sensor networks for pervasive care . Standards and interoperability . Probes for gathering requirements in household settings . Context aware mobile networks . Signal and Image Processing for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing . Reasoning systems and Machine Learning for Assistive Environments . Usability and HCI issues, Multimodal Interfaces IMPORTANT DATES . Full Paper Submission Deadline: December 15, 2008 . Workshop and Special Session Proposal Submissions Deadline: December 15, 2008 . Tutorial Proposal Submissions Deadline: December 15, 2008 . Full Paper Acceptance Notification: February 20, 2009 . Poseter Submissions Deadline: February 25, 2009 . Camera Ready Papers: March 21, 2009 . Conference Dates: Juny 9-13, 2009 All conference papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings. Selected papers will be invited to special journal issues. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lynne Baillie, Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece Grammati Pantziou, TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece General Chairs Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee Heng Huang, (Chair) University of Texas at Arlington, USA Ilias Maglogiannis, (Chair) University of the Aegean, Greece Vassilis Athitsos, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lynne Baillie, Telecom. Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis, USA Guanling Chen, University of Massachussetts at Lowell, USA Domenico Cotroneo, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Morten Kyng, University of Aarhus, Denmark Zhengyi Le, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada Charles Owen, Michigan State University, USA Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK Grammati Pantziou, TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Niilo Saranummi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Andreas Savvides, Yale University, USA Andrew Saykin, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA Magda Tsolaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yuhang Wang, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA John Waterworth, Umea University in Northern Sweden Organizing Committee Sarantos Kapidakis, (Chair) Ionian University, Greece Eric Becker, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Petros Belsis, TEI of Athens, Greece Charalampos Doukas, University of the Aegean, Greece James Ford, Dartmouth College, USA Zhengyi Le, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vangelis Metsis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Manolis Wallace, University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece Rong Zhang, Dartmouth College, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Zhengyi Le, Dartmouth College and University of Texas at Arlington, USA Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Dimitrios Vogiatzis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Poster Co-Chairs Euripidis Loukis University of the Aegean, Greece In addition to the main technical program, the conference will include Special Sessions, Workshops. Submit proposals to the appropriate chair: Workshops: Yurong Xu [yurong@yurongxu.com] Special Sessions: Zhengyi Le [zyle@uta.edu] General Contact: petrae@uta.edu