Mobile phones, smart watches, fitness trackers and a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices constantly acquire data about our lives and our bodies. These data can be used to support healthcare and foster healthy and independent living, with potentially enormous benefits to our societies. Along with benefits, important challenges come in terms of quality and meaningfulness of the collected data, usability and long term acceptance, transparency, data protection and trustability. The aim of this workshop is to explore these fundamental questions with researchers and practitioners from academia and industry.

The workshop will be hosted within the 11th International Conference of the Internet of Things, and will be held online on the 8th of November 2021.

Programme

Day: 8th of November 2021

List of Topics

• IoT services and applications for healthcare

• IoT services and applications for independent and assisted living

• Use of IoT in clinical settings

• IoT in tele-health and home monitoring

• Active and Healthy Aging technologies

• Algorithms and methods for gathering clinically-relevant knowledge from IoT devices

• Security, Privacy and Trust in IoT healthcare services and applications

• Clinical trials and pilot studies involving IoT

Submission Guidelines

Papers must written in English, and contain original material that has not been published or is currently undergoing review elsewhere. Papers should be 4 pages long, including figures and references. They will be reviewed by 3 experts from the Technical Program Committee following a single-blind review process, but chairs will verify quality before review and papers can be desk rejected. Evaluation is based on theoretical and practical relevance, soundness, novelty and potential impact.

Papers are submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iothsa2021. Authors should use the ACM double-column article template. Use of Latex is highly recommended.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: August 29, 2021 September 12, 2021

• Notification of acceptance: October 4, 2021

• Papers camera ready deadline: October 18, 2021

• Workshop: 8 November 2021, afternoon (CET)

Publication

Accepted papers will be included as companion proceedings of the main conference track and indexed by ACM.

In order for the paper to be published, at least one author will have to attend the workshop to present their work. Given the current travel restrictions, virtual attendance will be facilitated. See the main conference website for details and any other practical information.

Authors of the most interesting works may be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the Special issue about  ”Advantages and Applications of Mobile and Wearable Technologies for Health and Care” on the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI, IF 3.39).

Venue and fees

The workshop will be hosted within the 11th International Conference of the Internet of Things, in St Gallen, Switzerland. Due to the uncertainty related to he current pandemic, the hosting conference will be held both physically and online. Attendants will be required to pay the fees of the main conference.

See the conference website for information and further news.  

Committees

Chairs

• Dario Salvi, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
• Francesco Potortì, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Technical Programme Committee

• Gent Ymeri, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
• Carl Magnus Olsson, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
• Benjamin Maus, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
• Bharath Sudharsan, Data Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Paula De Toledo Heras, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
• Kevin Tsang, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Syed Ahmar Shah, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Antonino Crivello, CNR Pisa, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to dario.salvi@mau.se or potorti@isti.cnr.it