Call for papers
Ambient intelligence for home care
The overall objective of this issue
Age related decline prevents many people from enjoying full, independent, productive, high-quality lives. In order to support both elderly and disabled people in their daily life, Smart Homes have been proposed as innovative solutions which offer the potential to provide and improved quality of life along increased feelings of security. In addition, Smart Homes can be used as a means to improve both the availability and quality of care which may be offered. In particular home care involving the monitoring and processing of vital signs and enabling a quick intervention in emergency cases will become a more prevalent service. In this way, two main issues may be addressed: firstly, the person can remain within their own home and be safe and secure and secondly this offer offers a reformed manner in which healthcare is delivered and hence has the potential to reduce costs. Embedded within these visions of creating a smart environment within which people can live for an extended period of time exist Ambient Intelligent Technologies. Ambient Intelligent Technologies offer promising prospects to assist people with special needs. Nevertheless, they are an emerging research field which face numerous challenges.
Ambient intelligence (AmI) deals with a new vision of the digital world where computing, devices and sensors are spread everywhere (for example, home appliances, transportation, and buildings). AmI technologies enable more intelligent and unobtrusive user interaction with the surrounding environment. The AmI community has the mission of including more intelligence in such environments. Such intelligence should provide better user support and help users access the knowledge required to offer better decisions when interacting with these environments.
This issue of Annals of Telecommunications aims to offer a forum which will present real-world cases or prototypes of Home care environments in which AmI methodologies and techniques have been crucial for accomplishing the successful goal of home care. These environments may be related to several applications such as patient vital sign monitoring, cognitive assistance, fall detection and prevention, continence management, home based rehabilitation to name but a few. The submitted papers must involve AmI (for example, context aware in healthcare systems, logic, knowledge representation, search and planning, natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge-based systems, multi-agent systems, and service robotics and vision) and clearly present how AmI in the targetted environments have helped to achieve Successful Home care.
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
Context aware framework for home care
Activity recognition based sensing
computing
Service continuity and hand off
Sensors and wireless networking
Reasoning and prediction
Reasoning under uncertainty
Personal health management
Home Assistance for people with dementia
Home based rehabilitation
Service robotics and manipulators
Usages analysis and evaluation
Intelligent systems for carers
Lifestyle analysis
Guest Editors:
- Mounir Mokhtari, Télécom SudParis and IPAL-CNRS (UMI 2955), France
- Mohamed Ali Feki, Bell-Labs Research, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
- Chris Nugent, Ulster University, Northern Ireland
Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. Submissions should be sent according to the instructions available at:
http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/p_en_publish_6.html
Proposed schedule:
- Manuscript submission: November 7th, 2009
- Expected Publication: Summer 2010
