IWINAC2013: Sessions

Chairperson: Oscar Martinez Mozos
Co-chairperson: José Manuel Ferrandez Vicente

GOAL AND SCOPE
During the last years, there is an increasing interest in technologies oriented to improve the quality of life of people. Quality of Life Technologies (QOLTs) cover a broad area of research including engineering, computer science, medicine, psychology, or social sciences.

Typical applications of QOLTs include assistance technologies for people with some kind of disability as for example assistive robots, elderly care technologies, or smart homes. However, QOLTs include powerful tools to improve well-being of individuals and societies in general.

This IWINAC special session aims to bring together researchers working in several topics related to QOLTs. In addition, we would like to foster multi-disciplinarity, and to encourage new contacts among researches working in different areas.

SPECIAL ISSUE ON

"COMPUTER-BASED INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE"

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI)

In connection with the Pre-Organized Session on Quality of Life Technologies at IWINAC 2013

TOPICS
The main goal of this session is to provide a wide overview of QOLTs. Therefore, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Assistive technologies
Rehabilitation technologies
Technologies for psychological assistance
Robotics for QOLT: personal and service robotics, social robotics, rehabilitation robotics, human-robot interaction, cognitive robotics, intelligent robotic prosthesis, etc.
Medical technologies: health/cognitive information/monitoring systems, surgical robotics, brain computer interfaces, etc.
Ambient intelligence
Smart homes and cities
Autonomous cars
Augmented reality
Prevention of domestic and work accidents
Performance metrics and evaluation of QOLTs
etc.

And related supporting technologies such as:

Representations of human environments: metric/topologic/semantic/cognitive maps, object based representations, etc...
Object detection and tracking
People activity monitoring and recognition
Intelligent decision systems
Distributed sensors, ubiquitous computing
Bio-signal analysis and interpretation (EMG, EECG)
etc.

Please, do not hesitate to submit your work if you think your topic is related to QOLTs (even if it is not included in the previous lists). This conference aims to be a multi-disciplinary event and researches from any discipline are very welcome.

IWINAC2013: Pre-Organized Session:

S09. Quality of Life Technologies (QOLTs)