WTEHRW 2019 - 1st Workshop on Technology-Enabled Health, Rehabilitation and Welnness

Scientific Scope

The workshop on “Technology-enabled health, rehabilitation and wellness” intends to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives discuss the use and development of digital health applications in order to support illness diagnosis, decision-making processes, changes in the patients’ lifestyles within the courses of illnesses, promotion of healthy lifestyles and main implications on wellbeing and quality of life.

Authors are, therefore, invited to contribute with research papers, case studies, demonstrations, literature reviews and methodological proposals that highlight the use of digital artifacts to mediate the sources of information in healthcare and the end-users (i.e. patients, caregivers, policy-makers and/or other stakeholders).

 

Topics

  • Serious games for Health;
  • Emotional and Behavioural design;
  • Virtual agents in the Health Sector;
  • IoT in health;
  • Gamification and Health-related behaviour changes;
  • Rehabilitation apps;
  • Health-related communities;
  • Information literacy in healthcare;
  • Disease self-management;
  • Communication to Illness and infection prevention;
  • Technology-mediated interventions for active ageing;
  • Technology and the wellness market.

 

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: February 24, 2019
  • Notification of acceptance: March 26, 2019
  • Camera Ready papers and Registration: April 1, 2019
  • Conference dates: June 19-22, 2019

 

Paper Submission and Format Guidelines
We invite authors to submit unpublished work resulted from research that present original scientific result, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the field of ICT on Auditing. Submitted work must not be not under revision elsewhere. The submissions will be double-blind reviewed on a rolling basis to ensure a rapid decision. Therefore, authors should not include on submissions names and affiliations during the reviewing phase and avoid references in the text that can possibly identify authors. Submissions must be of Full Paper (up to 6 pages). Papers must be written in one of the official conference languages (English, Spanish or Portuguese) and must follow the conference format guidelines. Format guidelines: http://www.cisti.eu/images/templates.zip . Although submissions shall be done using PDF file format, camera ready versions of the accepted papers must be delivered in MS Word format also. Submissions must be done using

EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cisti2019workshops choosing the appropriate Workshop.

 

Publication 
Regardless of the type of submission, Programme Committee and Organizing Committee may suggest papers to be accepted as full-paper (6 pages), short-paper (4 pages) or poster (2 pages). Workshops full papers will be published in the conference proceedings in specific Workshop chapters. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, INSPEC and Google Scholar. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at CISTI 2017 website http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/. Published full and short papers will be sent to EI, IEEE XPlore, INSPEC, ISI, SCOPUS and Google Scholar. Poster papers and company papers will be sent to EBSCO and EI. Authors of accepted papers must register for the workshop to have papers published in the proceedings. More information at CISTI 2017 website http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/ .

 

Workshop Organizing Committee

Ana Isabel Veloso, University of Aveiro – Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.

Liliana Vale Costa, University of Aveiro – Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.

 

Provisional Program Committee (to be extended)

Beatriz Sousa Santos, DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Carlos Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Eugène Loos, Amsterdam University, Netherlands

Enrique Castro-Sanchez, Imperial College of London, UK

Esteban Clua, University Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil

Fernanda Martins, FLUP, University of Porto, Portugal

Fernando Zamith, FLUP, University of Porto, Portugal

Jaime Garcia Marin, UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Sidney, Australia

Mário Vairinhos, DeCA, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Michael Loizou, Coventry University, UK

Liliana Sousa, DEP, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Lynn Alves, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Paulo Dias, DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Pedro Amado, FBAUP, University of Porto, Portugal

Pedro Beça University of Aveiro, Portugal

Rui Costa, ESSUA, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Simone Hausknecht, University of Sidney, Australia

Sylvester Arnab, Coventry University, UK

Sónia Ferreira, Institute Polytechnic of Viseu, Portugal