SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER

Ambient Assisted Living

Mr. Rainer Planinc
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Abstract

Due to the demographic change, ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies help to assist elderly or disabled people. Especially enabling elderly to stay in their homes longer and taking active part in today’s self-serve society (social inclusion) are desired goals of such technologies. Technologies developed should be unobtrusive and assist elderly, if help is needed. Signal processing and pattern recognition plays an important role in the field of AAL. This special session brings together researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss their developed AAL technologies.

A preliminary list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

Human-Computer Interaction at AAL environments:
Ubiquitous and Mobile Interfaces
Tangible Interfaces
Multi-modal Interaction
Virtual and Augmented Reality for AAL
Sensor-based Interfaces
Agent-based Interfaces
Robot-based Interfaces
Computer Vision
Innovative Interaction Devices
Mobile Interaction
Interaction for Inclusion

Intelligent Healthcare and Homecare Environments:
Ambient Intelligence for AAL
E-Learning for AAL
Artificial Intelligence techniques for AAL
Context-Awareness in Assistive Environments
Modeling of human activity and behaviour for providing timely assistance
Collaborative Systems for AAL
Decision Support Systems
Knowledge Management
Architectures for developing AAL Environments
Applications for elderly people with few resources
Accessibility

Sensing and Monitoring:
Identification and Sensing Technologies
Risks Detection
Activity Recognition
Tele-mobile monitoring
Diet & Exercise monitoring
Drugs monitoring
Vital Signs Supervision

AAL Environments:
Smart Homes & Supervised Homes
Hospital Communication Management for AAL
Geriatric Residences
Living Labs
Getting older in rural areas

Key applications domains:
Chronic diseases
Frailty
Dementia
Rehabilitation
Ocupational therapy
Emotional Support
Healthcare and Social Wellness

Biography of the Special Session Organizer

Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Rainer Planinc received his MSc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Media Informatics as well as his MSocEcSc. (Mag.) in Computer Science Management in 2010. Since that, he is working as research assistant at the Computer Vision Lab (Vienna University of Technology). His main research interests are in the field of vision based AAL (ambient assisted living) technologies as well as the use of social websites within schools.

Submissions

Please email all submissions to AAL@caa.tuwien.ac.at by October 29, 2012. Authors MUST include their full contact information in the email.