There is sufficient evidence proving the impact that negative lifestyle choices have on people’s health and wellbeing. Avoiding unhealthy habits is, nowadays, a priority, and to achieve this goal, radically new approaches are required. An ever increasing number of smart technologies are being developed all over the world to coach people on healthier, as well as more responsible behaviours, providing them timely and ubiquitously with personalised information and support. This workshop aims at bringing together the latest experiences, findings and developments on smart coaching systems and methods for the provision of personalised health and wellbeing support services. We invite novel, innovative and exciting contributions including sensors for health and behaviour monitoring, devices and techniques for coaching, validity and reliability of monitoring and coaching, and modelling of behaviour change strategies.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (up to 10 pages). Full papers should describe results and original research, properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field.
• Posters (up to 4 pages). Short papers are envisioned as submissions describing original research that is much more focused and smaller in scope than full research papers. Short papers are not expected to provide all the details on the research, but rather focus on the most innovative and salient aspects. In addition, short papers are not expected to include a comprehensive review of related work.

List of Topics

• Applications for cognitive and physical health monitoring and modelling
• Ambient assisted living applications
• Wearable and ubiquitous health sensing systems
• Smart coaching systems
• Mobile social networks
• Behavioural grouping and participatory sensing (crowd-sensing)
• Behaviour analysis for alerts and recommendations
• Behaviour sensing and personalisation of mobile devices
• Gamification strategies for behaviour change
• Context-awareness and semantic modelling
• Affective computing (emotion recognition)
• Activity and action recognition
• User mobility modelling (location tracking)
• User-centric computing
• Virtual and augmented reality for coaching
• Benchmarking, datasets and simulation tools

Committees

Program Committee

• Harm op den Akker, Telemedicine Group, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
• Wahajat Ali Khan, Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Muhammad Bilal Amin, Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Luis Castro, Human Computer Interaction, Sonora Institute of Technology, Mexico
• Belkacem Chikhaoui, Emerging Technologies and Data Science, Computer Research Institute of Montreal, Canada
• Ian Cleland, Smart Environments Research Group, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
• Miguel Damas, Computer Architecture and Computer Technology Dept, University of Granada, Spain
• Christopher Eccleston, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, United Kingdom
• Macarena Espinilla, Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Decision Analysis Group, University of Jaen, Spain
• Francisco Jose Estevez, Phillips, Netherlands
• Muhammad Fahim, Machine Learning Research Laboratory, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey
• Denzil Ferreira, Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland
• Peter Gloesekoetter, Computer Architecture and Networks, University of Applied Sciences Muenster, Germany
• Hamid Mcheick, Computer Science Department, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
• Sungyong Lee, Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Daniel Rodriguez, Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech, Spain
• Ignacio Rojas, Computer Architecture and Computer Technology Dept., University of Granada, Spain
• Jonathan Synott, Northern Ireland Connected Health Innovation Competence Centre, United Kingdom
• Agusti Solanas, Smart Health Research Group, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
• Miriam Vollenbroek, Telemedicine Group, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Claudia Villalonga, Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies, University of Granada, Spain
• Jane Walsh, mHealth Reseach Group, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Organizing committee

• Oresti Banos, Center for Monitoring and Coaching, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Ramon Hervas, Modelling Ambient Intelligence Research Group, University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
• Hermie Hermens, Telemedicine Group, Roessingh Research and Development, Netherlands
• Christopher Nugent, Smart Environments Research Group, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
• Hector Pomares, Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies, University of Granada, Spain

Keynote Speakers

• Jesus Favela, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Healthcare Laboratory, CICESE, Mexico

Publication

Health-i-Coach 2017 proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/). Submissions must adhere to the double-column ACM format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform). Proceeding templates must be used for preparing the submissions (Word and LaTeX templates can be found at http://sigchi.github.io/Document-Formats/). We invite both short (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and external experts to reach a decision on acceptance. In some cases, the Program Committee may decide to conditionally accept a paper to allow the authors to update their submission based on the committee's feedback.

Journal Special Issue

Distinguished (full) papers selected from the workshop, after further extension, will be recommended for submission and publication in a Special Issue of the journal:

SENSORS (IF: 2.033, Q1) - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/personalised_coaching

Venue

The conference will be held in beautiful Barcelona! This city is the cosmopolitan capital of Spain’s Catalonia region, defined by quirky art and architecture, imaginative food and vibrant street life. Barcelona has medieval roots, seen in the mazelike Gothic Quarter, but a modernist personality represented by architect Antoni Gaudi's fantastical Sagrada Familia church. Its restaurant scene, anchored by the central Boqueria market, ranges from fine dining to tiny tapas bars.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to healthtechconf@utwente.nl