Conference Program


Conference Program

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Wednesday, November 29th
8:00
8:45
Conference Registration
8:45
9:00

Conference Opening
Introducing: Upkar Varshney and Imrich Chlamtac

9:00
10:00

Keynote Speech: Prof. Niilo Saranummi
“Pervasive Technology for Chronic Healthcare“
Introducing: Paul Lukowicz

10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
12:30
Session 1: Technologies "situated on the patient"
Session Chair:
Upkar Varshney

Full papers

SuperAssist: A User-Assistant Collaborative Environment for the supervision of medical instrument use at home
Olivier A. Blanson Henkemans, Mark Neerincx, Jasper Lindenberg, Charles van der Mast

Usability and Feasibility of PmEB: A Mobile Phone Application for Monitoring Real Time Caloric Balance
Christopher Tsai, Gunny Lee, Fred Raab, Gregory Norman, Timothy Sohn, William Griswold, Kevin Patrick

Physical and digital design of the BlueBio biomonitoring system prototype, to be used in emergency medical response
Gunnar kramp, Margit Kristensen, Jacob Frølund Pedersen

Short papers

Heart Rate Measurement in the Presence of Noises
Jen-Liang Cheng, Jing-Ren Jeng, Zhe-Wei Chiang

Mechanocardiogram Measured at the Back of Subjects Sitting in a Chair as a Non-intrusive Pre-ejection Period Measurement
Yong Gyu Lim, Ki Hwan Hong, Ko Keun Kim, Jae Hyeog Shin, Kwang Suk Park

12:30
13:30
Lunch

13:30
15:00

Session 2: Technologies to improve overall health of people
Session Chair:
Oscar Mayora

Full papers

Increasing the Awareness of Daily Activity Levels with Pervasive Computing
Julie Maitland, S. Sherwood, L. Barkhuus, I. Anderson , M. Hall, B. Brow

Enhancing Exercise Performance through Real-time Physiological Monitoring and Music: A User Study
Nuria Oliver, Lucas Kreger-Stickles

When do We Eat? An Evaluation of Food Items Inputted into an Electronic Food Monitoring Application Connelly Kay, Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Rohwer, Desiree Lambert, Janet L. Welch

15:00
15:30
Coffee Break
15:30
17:15
Session 3: Ubiquitous computing support for medical works in hospitals
Session Chair:
Kay Connelly

Full papers

Designing Pervasive Computing for Hospitals: Learning from the Media Affordances of Paper-Based Medication Charts
Yngve Dahl, Dag Svanæs, Øystein Nytrø

Estimating Hospital Work Activities in Context-Aware Healthcare Applications
Jesus Favela, Monica Tentori, Luis A. Castro, Victor M Gonzalez, Elisa B. Moran, Ana I. Martínez-García

Triage with RFID Tags
Sozo Inoue, Akihiko Sonoda, Ken'ichiro Oka, Shin'ichiro Fujisaki

Short Papers

The CARE Concept - Holding on to augmentable paper during post surgery rehabilitation
Tomas Sokoler, Per Linde, Jonas Löwgren, Stefan Olofsson, Mette Agger Eriksen

19:00
21:00
Conference Banquet
 
Thursday, November 30th
9:00
10:00

Keynote Speech: Dr. J.C. Chachques
“Telemonitoring in cardiology”
Introducing: Carlos Bilich

10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
12:30

Session 4: Pervasive Healthcare Applications
Session Chair:
Friedrich Hanser


Full papers

Facilitating Dynamic Schedules for Healthcare Professionals
Cormac J Driver, Éamonn Linehan, Mike Spence, Shiu Lun Tsang, Laura Chan, Siobhán Clarke

A Taxonomy of Pervasive Healthcare Systems
Joanna Alicja Muras, Vinny Cahill, Emma Katherine Stokes

Methods for Detection and Classification of Normal Swallowing from Muscle Activation and Sound
Oliver Amft, Gerhard Troester

Short Papers

Ubiquitous Diagnosis: Assurance through Distribution and Collaboration
Daniel Ruiz, Antonio Soriano, Carlos A. Montejo, Anibal Bueno

User Evaluation of Smart Flats for People with Dementia
Timothy D. Adlam, Nina Evans, Chris Gibbs, Roger Orpwood
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
15:00
Session 5: Special Users and Special situations of healthcare
Session Chair:
Jesus Favela

Full papers

Using Wireless Sensor Networks for Aged Care: The Patient's Perspective
Robert Steele, Christopher Secombe, Wayne Brookes

Disaster Relief Coordination using a Documentation System for Emergency Medical Services
Marko Hassinen, Maija I Marttila-Kontio

End-user composition and re-use of technologies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Alessia Rullo, Patrizia Marti, Erik Grönvall, Alessandro Pollini

15:00
15:30
Coffee Break
15:30
17:15
Session 6: Networking support for pervasive healthcare
Session Chair:
Upkar Varshney

Full papers

Resource Discovery in Activity-Based Sensor Networks
Doina Bucur, Jakob E. Bardram

Privacy Preserving Trust Negotiation for Pervasive Healthcare
Changyu Dong, Naranker Dulay

Spatial Health Systems
Björn Gottfried

Short Papers

Designing Wireless Networks to Support the Data Rate Requirements of Healthcare Systems
Natthapol Pongthaipat, Joseph Kabara

 
Friday, December 1st
9:00
10:00

Keynote Speech: Prof. Elizabeth Mynatt
“Towards Personalized Health Services”
Introducing: Oscar Mayora

10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
12:30
Session 7: Ubiquitous health care and monitoring at home
Session Chair:
Paul Lukowicz
Best Paper Award Announcement

Full papers

Service and Policies for Care At Home Evan H.
Fen Wang, Liam S. Docherty, Kenneth J. Turner, Mario Kolberg, Evan H. Magill

Approaching Ambient Intelligent Home Care Systems
Martin Becker, Ewoud Werkman, Michalis Anastasopoulos, Thomas Kleinberger

Body Sensor Network Based Context Aware QRS Detection
Huaming Li, Jindong Tan

User-centered development of a pervasive healthcare application
Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger

12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
15:15
Session 8: Patient monitoring
Session Chair:
Oliver Amft

Full papers

Plug ‘n Play Simplicity for Wireless Medical Body Sensors
Thomas Falck, Heribert Baldus, Javier Espina, Karin Klabunde

A Flexible Vital Sign Representation Framework for Mobile Healthcare
Hailiang Mei, Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, Bayu Erfianto

Bio-Medical Sensing using Ultra Wideband Communications and Radar Technology: A Feasibility Study
Carlos G. Bilich

Short Paper

Context aware inactivity recognition for visual fall detection
Bart Jansen, Rudi Deklerck

15:15
15:30
Closing of Conference
Upkar Varshney, Paul Lukowicz, Oscar Mayora
 
Workshops
Tuesday, November 28th


LOCARE 2006
First International Workshop on Location Based Services for Health Care

Wednesday, November 29th


PHMCS 2006
International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Health

Saturday, December 2nd


CONNECTINGHEALTH 2006
First International Workshop on Connected Health, using IT to Integrate the HealthCare Enterprise