PETRA 2018: 11th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Corfu Holiday Palace Corfu, Greece, June 26-29, 2018 |
Conference website | http://petrae.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2018 |
Posters Deadline | March 16, 2018 |
Submission deadline | March 16, 2018 |
The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and other. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full Papers (5-8 pages)
- Short Papers (3-4 pages)
- Posters (1-2 pages)
- Workshop Proposals
- Workshop Papers (3-8 pages)
List of Topics
- Behavior monitoring systems
- Human-Centered Computing
- Disability computing: Smart systems to assist persons with visual, hearing, and loss of limb functionalities
- Mobile and wireless technologies
- Technologies for senior living
- User Interface Design and Usability
- Gesture and Motion Tracking
- Ambient assisted living
- Data Privacy and Remote Health Monitoring
- Healthcare Informatics
- Technologies for improving quality of daily living
- Intelligent assistive environments
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Reasoning Systems and Machine Learning
- Wearable Computing
- Wearable devices
- Virtual and augmented reality environments
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Social impact of pervasive technologies
- Affective Computing
- Sensor networks for pervasive health care
- Smart Cities of the Future
- Vocational safety and health monitoring
- Big Data Management
- Haptics
- Computer vision in healthcare
- Innovative design for smart wheelchairs and smart canes
- Games for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitatioin
- Robotics research for rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation
- Navigation systems
- Cognitive Modeling
- Computer based training systems for artificial limbs and prosthetics
- Smart rehabilitation systems
- Game design for cognitive assessment and social interaction
- Technologies to provide assessment and intervention for Stroke recovery , spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis
- Telemedicine and biotechnology
Committees
Program Committee
- Dr. Oliver Korn (PC Chair) - Offenburg University, Germany
- Dr. Eleni Efthimiou (Associate PC Chair) - Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
- Dr. Vassilis Athitsos (Associate PC Chair) - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Organizing committee
- Dr. Fillia Makedon (Conference Chair) - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Maher Abujelala (Conference Coordinator) - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Publication
PETRA 2018 conference proceedings, including the workshop papers, will be a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted papers will also be invited to a special issue published on Technologies, an international open access journal singularly focusing on emerging scientific and technological trends and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
Venue
The conference will be held in Corfu, Greece at the Corfu Holiday Palace Hotel from June 26-29, 2018
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to petrae@uta.edu