Wearable systems for homecare and personalised healthcare track
We are facing challenges in the healthcare in our society over the coming decades as the ageing population in our society steadily increases the cost of healthcare inexorably soars, the emphasis on healthcare shifts towards disease preventative approaches with patients taking greater control over their health.As short stays in hospitals become the norm, the focus on homecare and the concept of homecare as an extension to hospital care has become very attractive indeed.Rapid advances in the areas of pervasive and ubiquitous computing have propelled the technology of health telematics to new levels that have provided momentum for novel innovations in mobile and wearable computing and technologies for homecare and personalised healthcare.Significant advances are also taking place in intelligent biomedical clothing and smart fibres to provide non-invasive and minimally invasive personalised care systems.
We invite papers that cover recent research work in the areas of wearable computing, technologies and monitoring systems, biomedical clothing and smart textile monitoring systems as well as those that focus on paradigms of ambient intelligence and pervasive computing directed towards homecare and personalised healthcare.
All submissions will be performed electronically via the CBMS web submission system, which will be open approximately one month before the deadline at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/mlg/CBMS2005/. Please indicate the title of the special track on the cover page of your draft to avoid confusion.
Please contact the track chair for any queries.
Track Chair:
Narayana Jayaram
Faculty of Computing
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
LondonN7 6DB
E-mail:
n.Jayaram@londonmet.ac.uk
n.Jayaram@ieee.org
Phone: +44 20 7133 7057
Fax:+44 20 7133 7053
Track Programme Committee:
- Robert Whitrow
Faculty of Computing, London Metropolitan University
- Mike Smith
Department of Computing
Anglia Polytechnic University
- Frank Wang
Director of Grid Computing Centre
Cranfield University
Cranfield
- Igor Schagaev
Faculty of Computing,
London Metropolitan University
