Ageing well in the Knowledge Society (AKS)

 

Topics in AKS should address at least, but not only:

  • Ageing in place: smart living environments
  • Stay connected: ICT for an ageing society
  • Adaptive assistance for people with disabilities
  • Cognitive support
  • Ambient intelligence for assistive environments
  • Service Robotics for eldercare
  • Passive sensing for monitoring physical and/or cognitive condition
  • Wearable sensors
  • Aging assessment tools
  • Rehabilitation systems
  • Ethical considerations of eldercare systems
  • Evaluating eldercare systems
  • Ageing biomechanics
  • Cognitive ageing
  • BioRobotics for active longevity
  • Care support technology
  • Environmental engineering

For further information please contact the AKS'09 Chair:

Dr. Cristina Urdiales
Robotics and Artificial Vision
Department of Electronic Technology
University of Malaga
Spain
http://campusvirtual.uma.es/curdiales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By 2050 the share of the above 60 age group will be around 37% in Europe. There is a wide range of problems facing by older adults as they age. Many represent old challenges to health care providers, including chronic illnesses like heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension, as well as deterioration of physical function, high risk of falling, strokes, memory problems, cognitive decline, and loneliness. At the same time, the population of older adults is growing, giving concern as to how these people will get the care they need. The potential for ICTs to help alleviate these pressures and reduce prevailing concerns has long been recognized.
AI technology, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence environment, offers the potential for innovative solutions, spanning such areas as sensing and sensory perception, computer vision, planning, reasoning, smart homes, robotics and human-robot interaction. We invite an interdisciplinary group with joint interests in addressing aging-related challenges. In addition to AI researchers, gerontologists, geriatric nurses and psychiatrists, rehabilitation therapists, social workers, counsellors, epidemiologists, and those from other related professions and disciplines are invited to attend. We will provide a forum to share ideas, foster new collaborations, and investigate funding opportunities. We believe that in the future ageing and disabled people will use smart assistive technology to perform daily living activities, socialize, and enjoy entertainment and leisure activities.
This meeting will be held at the University of Salamanca in June 10-12th, 2009, within the International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2009 (IWANN'09). This special session will incorporate two novel aspects with respect to related special sessions and workshops held in the last years:

  • Special efforts will be devoted to try to attract the attention of health care specialists, so that they attend the event and realise the potential benefits of Assistive Technologies (medical doctors are members of the organising committee).
  • The organising committee will also pay special attention to papers describing applications which are not just academic, but are already deployed and running in a real medical environment. Patient/user-centered applications are welcome.

Papers covering all areas of disability and all areas of technology are encouraged.
The special session will focus on a variety of topics that address the physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges of aging.

The Ageing well in the Knowledge Society Workshop (AKS'09) will educate attendees on cutting edge technologies that help people live better longer. During the workshop, invited lectures on current issues of aging.

All papers accepted will be published in a special volume of IWANN in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS Springer Verlag). IWANN is included in the ranking of the best conferences established by the Computer Science Conference Ranking based on the "Estimated Impact of Conference (EIC)",concretely in position 55 among 620 considered (in the Artificial Intelligence field). Therefore the papers will be indexed by CiteSeer.IST, and by the organization Computing Research and Education Association (CORE).


Submissions must be sent in PDF format to the workshop contact person. They must be formatted following the guidelines of the main IWANN conference
(http://iwann.ugr.es/). Papers must not be longer than 8 pages. They must be written in English, and will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance,
significance of the contribution, originality, technical soundness, quality and clarity.

The workshop organisers would appreciate that anyone intending to submit a paper to the workshop communicates this intention before 16th January, 2009 to the workshop contact person. Submission deadlines will match those of the IWANN conference.

Important Dates

January 23, 2009 Submission of papers by authors
February 27, 2009 Notification of provisional acceptance.
March 16, 2009 Submission of final papers.

Technical Committee:

Roberta Annicchiarico (Fondazione Santa Lucia, Italy)
Cristian Barrué (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Fabio Campana, (Azienda Sanitaria Locale Roma B, Italy)
Ulises Cortés (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Marjorie Skubic (University of Missouri, US)
Luiza Spiru (Ana Aslan Institute, Romania)
Cristina Urdiales (University of Malaga, Spain)

The workshop is partially supported by the EC funded project SHARE-it: Supported Human Autonomy for Recovery and Enhancement of cognitive and motor abilities using information technologies (FP6-IST-045088).