[AK-MI] Call for Papers: IEEE Pervasive Health Workshop PervaSense’09, London

[Michael Marschollek]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

unsere neu gegründete GMDS-Projektgruppe "Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) 
und Assistierende Gesundheitstechnologien (AGT)" veranstaltet im Rahmen 
der IEEE Pervasive Health 2009 Konferenz einen internationalen Workshop 
zum Thema “Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive 
Health environments” (PervaSense’09).
Ab sofort ist die Einreichung von Beiträgen möglich. Deadline für die 
Einreichung ist der 10. Februar 2009. Alle Details finden Sie im 
anhängenden Call for Papers.

Viele Grüße aus Braunschweig

Michael Marschollek

Call for Papers:

Pervasive Health 2009 Workshop
“Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health 
environments” (PervaSense’09)

Workshop chairs:
• Dr. Michael Marschollek, MD MSc, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for 
Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of
Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany, 
michael.marschollek at plri.de
• Dipl.-Inf. Med. Holger Storf, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental 
Software Engineering (IESE), Department Experience Management,
Kaiserslautern, Germany, holger.storf at iese.fraunhofer.de
This workshop is organized by the GMDS project group “Ambient assisted 
living and health-enabling technologies“.

1. Theme
Pervasive systems in healthcare have reached a high degree of maturity 
from a technical point of view. However, the interpretation of
large amounts of medical sensor data with regard to a person’s 
individual situation still remains a great challenge to the research
community. Advanced medical data analysis is a prerequisite for 
providing individualized health services in Pervasive Health or Ambient
Assisted Living environments. Situation recognition, in turn, is a key 
factor for individualization and adaptivity. In addition, the
recognition of characteristic activities is the foundation for 
individual behavior monitoring and the autonomous detection of critical
long-term deviations. Furthermore, meaningful data interpretation is 
largely impossible without sound context knowledge. This holds true
not only for medical emergency situations, but also for longitudinal 
analysis of sensor data in general, and physiologic data in
particular. Additionally, social integration of Pervasive Health systems 
– in terms of timeliness and selection of appropriate means of
communication – may only be achieved if services areindividualized and 
adapted. The aim of this workshop is to attract the presentation
of top research in the area of situation recognition (detection of 
Activities of Daily Living (ADL, iADL), context-aware situation
recognition) and medical data analysis (vital data analysis, short- and 
long-term deviations from normal behavior or state of health,
decision support) in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living 
environments. This workshop touches both technological aspects such as
data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments and decision support 
algorithms, as well as social implications and acceptance of these
technologies. Furthermore, real-life applications of situation 
recognition in home monitoring and clinical environments, e.g., for
ndividualized feedback systems, are covered.

2. Topics
This workshop encourages submissions that consider, but are not limited to,
• technical concepts and/or algorithms for situation and context 
recognition
• technical concepts and/or algorithms for behavior monitoring
• concepts, applications, and/or prototypes for medical data interpretation
• data fusion in Pervasive Health environments
• approaches or applications of data mining for sensor data in Pervasive 
Health environments
• approaches for modeling context knowledge (user-/environment-oriented)

3. Publication
Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings CD of the 
main conference. In addition, all papers will be published and
indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

4. Submission
Please refer to the Pervasive Health 2009 conference website to retrieve 
the author’s kit
(http://www.pervasivehealth.org/authorskitieee.shtml), including 
templates and detailed instructions. Please submit your paper to the
workshop chairs: Michael.Marschollek at plri.de and 
Holger.Storf at iese.fraunhofer.de

5. Important dates
Paper submission: 10 February 2009
Notification to authors: 20 February 2009
Camera ready: 27 February 2009
Workshop date: 31 March 2009